Samuel Parris

Vermont vs. Brillon In July 2001, Michael Brillon was arrested for striking his girlfriend in Bennington County, Vermont. Brillon was appointed a public defender, Richard Ammons. Ammons was eventually fired by Brillon. In total Brillon went through six public defenders before his trial in June, 2004. Brillon was convicted and sentenced to twelve to twenty years in prison. Brillon appealed his case to the Vermont Supreme Court which found that Brillon’s right to a speedy trial under the Sixth…

Boston Massacre During this period of time, a big event happen in history that caused many emotions and tensions between the British soldiers and the civilians. The Boston Massacre played a very important role as The Revolutionary War in American History. The civilians feared for their lives but also for there colonies. The civilians were tired of all the rules and taxes they had to follow but also feeling that they were getting stepped on. They would start protesting and wanted to be free…

After the French and Indian War, The King as well as Parliament decided the colonies should pay for part of the costs for keeping British soldiers in North America. “It is in part to pay for the cost of administering this new continental empire that the British begin enacting a series of Financial Revenue Acts in 1764” (Wall, Taxing the Colonies). These acts included The Sugar Act of 1764, The Stamp Act of 1765, The Quartering Act of 1765, The Declaratory Act 1766 as well as many others. Since…

The root causes for the American Revolution was when Great Britain started to place Acts such as the Sugar Act of 1764, The Revenue Act of 1764, and the Stamp Act of 1765 to enforce higher taxes and/or fines to make the colonists help pay for the own debt due to the Seven Years’ War. The Sugar Act of 1764 was to lower taxes on molasses imported in North America from the French West Indies. On the other hand it was established to end widespread of smuggling by the colonial merchant but due to…

The British had created numerous laws that angered many colonists. Some of these popular acts were The Quartering Act, The Stamp Act, The Tea Act, and The Intolerable Acts. The colonists then protested against these acts in many ways. Some ways were violent, others were peaceful, and other protests hurt the British economically. The economic protest was the most effective protest. The economic protests attacked what the British loved the most: money. Money was a very important item to the…

majorities votes. Therefore, a big number of political analysts predicted a persistent increasing dramatic change in the US political system, which would affect the US political system in the long run in the future, due to the fact that the size of the democratic victory and the last of the Republican’s unpopularity extended during the late Bush era. Two years later as predicted, the America’s most vibrant political force seldom seen occurred , calling it self the Tea Party Movement. The Tea…

In December 16, 1773, 342 chests of tea that belonged to the British East India Company were dump into the Boston Harbor by American patriots who disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians. The American patriots were objecting tax on tea, that is, taxation without representation and the perceived East India Company’s monopoly. The Townshend Acts passed in 1767 by Parliament imposed duties on various imported products but they raised a big storm of non-compliance and colonial protest. The Boston…

The Shoemaker and The Tea Party: Book Assignment #1 PART I: IDENTIFICATION QUESTIONS Historical Memory is oral and written testimonies from individuals who wither witnessed for took part in historical moments in history. Benjamin Bussey Thatcher was an American author who wrote Traits of the Tea Party (1835) which was the second biography to be written about George Robert Twelve Hewes. The American Revolution was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783. It started with the…

Samuel Adams once said, “The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought.” This quote by Samuel Adams means that if you value freedom and defended your opinion you can be free in your own special way. In This essay, you will learn about the life of Samuel Adams, Samuel Adams is one of the founding fathers of the Unites States of America, Adams also helped to arrange the Boston Tea Party. Samuel Adams planned the Boston Tea Party, which was when People dumped…

In 1763 the royal proclamation was issued by King Georg |||. And the proclamation of 1763 stated that all lands west of the Appalachian Divide were off-limits to the colonies. This affected and upset some of the colonists. The land west of the Appalachian remained an American Indian territory for the time being. The colonists rebelled against Great Britain because they felt their rights were being violated. The Sugar Act took place in 1764. The Sugar Act lowered the tax on molasses in hopes to…