Samuel de Champlain

On March 5, 1770, a group of young colonists confronted a British soldier on guard at the Custom House- supposedly about money that was owed to one of the colonist´s masters. Refusing to pay any money, the soldier got back to work expecting the colonists to do the same and leave. However, they did not. The colonists resorted to throwing snowballs and ice at the guard, in a final attempt to persuade him to give up the money. Soon enough, other colonists joined the rebellion, and the crowd against…

Witchcrafts were very common in medieval times. Thousands of people were being killed, murdered and accused for witch trials. Meaning of witchcraft is using supernatural powers or magical powers and witches were people who possess supernatural powers. According to book witchcrafts in Middle Ages by Jeffery Burton Russell “The most useful approach to definition of witchcraft is to recognize it as phenomenon: a human perception”. The opinion concerning meaning of witchcraft had being mottled and…

mute…” The local people had no great explanation for all of this so, the women were “declared to be bewitched.” The girls then accused the people they beloved bewitched them. Tituba was one of these women. Tituba was a colored woman who belonged to Samuel Paris. She worked in the house, and she would eat and sleep with the daughter and niece of…

What is the cause for human violence? There are two main reasons for these causes: mob mentality and hysteria. Mob mentality is usually when a group of people are angry about something and they persuade others to join in, in turn, this causes hysteria. Hysteria is mass fear of something. Usually caused by seeing others with the same fear. These causes were evident in two events: The Salem Witch Trials and The Kent State Shootings. 1In 1692, a great injustice was done to the innocent people…

The Calling of John Procter The character of John Proctor changes from selfish to loyal. The crucible happened in Salem village that was being run by a bunch of teenagers accusing people of witchcraft. Where teenage girls determined who died and who lived. John Proctor was a selfish man how later thought of his family before him. John Proctor had an affair with Abigail Williams but chose his wife over her. Abigail is now out to get John back but has to get rid of Elizabeth Johns wife out of…

America, representing freedom, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, the descendant of, for the most part, Britain, The English Settlers came to America in 1607, uncertain and scared of what was to come. In 1607, few would have predicted that by 1776 a revolution would be unfolding in what is now America. The reasons were lacking. It is not as if the colonies were in a state of decline, rather, they were relatively prosperous; they raised crops, which fetched quite the prices in Britain, and…

The Crucible the author Arthur Miller made a every significant change in the character of Reverend Hale. Reverend Hale was introduced to the play to convict people of being witches. As the story progresses, Reverend Hale begins to change into someone else. Reverend Hale shows great abundance of change so that he could possibly help the people of Salem. Then finally Reverend Hale at the end, he was trying to save the people that were falsely being convicted of being a witch. In the beginning,…

In the American Revolutionary War, about 4,435 people were killed. The American Revolutionary War was a terrible war that caused thousands of unnecessary deaths. The war was started because the king of England decided he would tax the people in the colonies, even though they no longer considered themselves English. They were Americans. The Patriots were unhappy about this, so they rebelled and that is how the war started. The Patriots were fighting for the freedom of the colonies and the British…

1. Proclamation of 1763 This document’s significance was to prevent colonists from settling past the Appalachian mountains. Colonial frontiersmen reacted very swiftly, and very negatively. In their opinion the English were restricting some of the most coveted land in the New World. 2. Quebec Act The Quebec Act made Quebec a place where Catholics could freely worship and it restored the use of French civil law for matters of private law. The reaction of Canadians was mixed and the land-owning…

Massacres involve many people, yet the Boston Massacre is more of a paradox. The paradox of this involves the use of propaganda which demonstrates this massacre of five deaths into a big idea. This causes the United States to focus and narrow the blame towards Great Britain. This event occurred on the same day the parliament repealed most of the Townshend Acts.These acts were an external tax that charged colonists a tariff for importing manufactured good into the U.S. This caused the colonists…