Samuel Parris

George Washington was only 21 years old serving the Virgina militia and on a 900-mile mission into Ohio Country to confront the French. Slavery was a big part of the economy and the productions of raw materials had fueled colonies to the second stage of economic development(Schulzt 2013) This started drama between England and the north American coloines. The started to build military forts which made the English settlers mad and ready to fight.When George got there he delivered a letter to…

Pre-Revolutionary War Quiz ( /38) Multiple Choice: (Five Points) Which state was the “First Continental Congress held”? It was held in New York. It was held in Rhode Island. It was held in Philadelphia. It was held in Pennsylvania. 2. Captain Thomas Preston was the leader of which group(soldiers) in the “Boston Massacre”? He was leading the Spanish. He was leading the British. He was leading the Russians. He was leading the Native Americans. He was leading the French. He was leading the…

Our Parliament’s act is called the Townshend Acts named after Charles Townshend who was Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer (or treasury department) and passed the British Parliament in an effort to exercise greater royal authority over the American colonies and to levy new taxes. The acts, sometimes were called the American Import Duties Acts and was passed in 1767. The Parliament’s reason for passing the act is Parliament still intended to raise money from the colonies to pay off Britain’s…

Samuel Adams was born on September 27, 1722. He was born in Boston Massachusetts and graduated from Harvard in the year of 1740. He was the son of a merchant and maltster. After graduation Sam Adams was unsuccessful at becoming a brewer and a newspaper publisher. He later discovered that politics were his true calling. He began his political career by participating in Boston town affairs. He became well known through his participation in the Massachusetts assembly during the opposition of the…

A part of the European Enlightenment John Locke believed that the governments should get their authority from the peoples they rule. And people have fundamental rights that the government has a duty to protect these rights. After Pontiacs Rebellion in which the British gave the Indians a “gift” of blankets infected with smallpox as the solution to put down the rebellion, the British issued a proclamation forbidding the settlement of anything west of the Appalachian Mountains. This was the…

The first tax was the Stamp Act. It said that colonists had to buy tax stamps for printed materials. Many colonists refused to pay. They said they had not voted on the tax (No taxation without representation). Colonists under the leadership of Samuel Adams formed the Sons of Liberty to protest the Stamp Act. Since the Stamp Act did not work, Britain replaced it with a tax on imported goods, the Townshend Acts. So colonists refused to buy imports. The Daughters of Liberty formed to make…

Common Sense was a 48 page pamphlet published in January 1776 by Thomas Paine, initially written anonymously, it expounded on the reasons for favoring independence from England, to the common man. It had wide spread distribution with in a few months because it was speaking to the common man in a language they understood, during a time where the Battles of Lexington and Concord had already occurred. It served to persuade the undecided average citizen, who initially only wanted equal rights…

Airport Fiasco Every summer since I was ten years old I have gone to my dad’s house for the summer. It used to be a lengthy, mudane car ride to Idaho, but I didn’t mind because my mom always bought us snacks for the drive and I would sleep most of the way there. It was completely stress-free trip, there and back, until about three years ago. That’s when my dad moved to New Hampshire, which is about a thirty-three hour drive, and my mom was not up for it. That meant my sister and I would have…

There were many reasons why the Founding Fathers were justified in rebelling against the British government. Colonist believed that the government was unfair because the king created unfair laws such as the Townshend Act of 1767 and the Tea Act, and the British caused the Boston Massacre. The Townshend Act of 1767 placed taxes on lead, glass, paper, paint and tea that were imported into the colonies. The Townshend Act was a new way to generate tax revenue in the colonies after the Stamp…

Postmodernism is a late-20th-century movement in the arts, architecture, and criticism that was a departure from modernism. Postmodernism was a movement in architecture that rejected the functionalist, modernist ideals of rationality and also used to describe a dissatisfaction with modern architecture. Postmodernism is characterized by the return of ornament and symbol to form. The aims of the postmodernism was look back to the past for inspiration of history and tradition, ideas of…