Samuel P. Huntington

killed Crispus Attucks became the most well known. Fun facts The Boston massacre as a famous pre-revolutionary war, redcoats were quartered in the city firing at the civilians killing 5 of them which include, Crispus Attucks, Patrick Carr, Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, and James Caldwell. Six other civilians were injured. “The soldiers that were involved got arrested and pleaded not guilty.” There were about 4,000 redcoats ( British troops) and 20,000 residents during the incident. The…

In the book, ‘Witchcraft, Magic and Superstition in England, 1640-70, the author, Frederick Valletta, writes about the political and moral struggles that the English people were facing before, during and especially after the English Civil War in 1651. He claims that the social upheaval caused by the war, together with the collapse of censorship provided ample opportunity for the emergence of various religions sects and cults. Running parallel with the social and religious upheaval was an…

Prospero’s speech is not finished. He concludes his metaphor for life as a play with the following words: “We are such stuff / As dreams are made on” (IV.i.173-174). By comparing the current events to a dream, he again recognizes his supposed reality as fiction, which stresses the unimportance of the play. How can he demean his supposed reality to a dream, and thus, fiction? The “how” is critical; it means Prospero must have a sense of something greater. To demean something is to, conversely,…

Mass hysteria has been occurring since the 1600's. Even today in the twenty-first century there has been mass hysteria such as, 2012 when the world was going to end, and there were many reasons and resolutions to 2012 hysteria. In 2012, a mass hysteria surged through the public in the United States. The entire public panicked thinking the world was going to end. A smiliar public hysteria occurred during the 1600's when the town of Salem believed that Lucifer walked with them and that…

The main character in the dream and story is a young girl named Miranda Rhea. This character is a young girl who struggles with the injustices in life. She is battling with a trauma from watching a clown in a circus who she thought was going to fall to his death and throughout that she notices that everyone is cheering it on and laughing. Much as happens in her real life where tragedies occur and the people surrounding her do not react in a manner expected by her. The Secondary characters in the…

"A witch is defined as a person who signed the devil's book, thus giving the devil permission to use her shape to go around harming other people." The Salem Witch Trials were brought about when a group of young girls claimed to be possessed by the devil after they were seen dancing in the forest. The girls started displaying wild and peculiar behavior that a local doctor, William Griggs, diagnosed as bewitchment. The Salem Witch Trials had a negative impact on American history because it caused…

What do we know about Salem? Salem is a coastal town in Essex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. Salem is a New England bedrock of history and is considered one of the most significant seaports in Puritan American history. Salem was founded in 1629 by the Puritans. Puritans, the people who did not recognize the authority of the official church and followers of Calvinism in England in the XVI-XVII centuries. The increase in the refugee population in Salem, led to a shortage of arable…

Since the British won the war, the British owned all of the First Nation's land and tribes such as the Huron didn’t enjoy that so they kept fighting against the British. The British had to do something so the British government made the Royal Proclamation. The Royal Proclamation was issued by the United Kingdom government in the name of King George III on October 7, 1763 after the British gained the French territory in North America. The purpose of the Royal Proclamation was to make better…

Deep in the home of colonist, a riot was forming. It is March 23, 1765, just one day since colonist received the treacherous news, of what they thought to be a horrendous, tax they would be forced to pay. Just as things started to calm down from the French and Indian war, that took place on colonist land, the stamp act was thrown upon them. The Stamp Act was an act passed by the King of England, to help pay for their unwanted services in the recent war. When the king had heard about the ongoing…

Bacon’s Rebellion was the first serious tax revolt in American History which is evident in him stating, “let all people judge what can be more dangerous import than to suspect the so long safe proceedings of some of our grandees, and whether people may with safety open their eyes in so nice a concern”. This shows that although people were uncomfortable with the taxes, they dealt with it for the continuation of normalcy and to stay away from a war, but Bacon felt that continuing with normalcy was…