Samuel Pierpont Langley

Now as I mentioned before, England was up to its neck in debt from Dutch and British banks, and England didn’t have enough income to pay it off. So why not tax the colonies? After all the war happened because of the colonies and it was all on colonial soil. It would keep the British people happy and no one thought it would matter much taxing the colonies more strictly. So the first Act the British government put into place was the Sugar Act of 1764 which put stricter taxes on the molasses and…

Parliament. Americans were in search of liberty and natural rights, but failing to receive these rights led to conflicts between the colonists and the King. The papers "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine and "Letters of a Westchester Farmer" by Reverend Samuel Seabury explain the point of views on the struggles between the thirteen colonies and Great Britain. The idea of freedom leading to salutary neglect, strict acts and taxes, and rebellious reactions led to the start of the American Revolution.…

Imagine you were living in a time where you were controlled by an outside governing body and you are being taxed and your rights are being taken away. Then there is one event that pushes you over the edge and makes your fellow colonist want to rebel. The British did many things to the colonist that made the colonist want to rebel against the British and to start their own government. The colonist had many great reasons to leave the control of England and to become its own independent country…

[introduction] The fight for American Independence began in 1765. However, Americans have long been fighting for their freedom many years before the war actually begun. They were tired of being under British Rule. The main cause of the war dates back in the early 1760s, when the British continuously taxed the colonies. They felt that it was the colonies duty to help pay for the Seven Years War that had just passed. Unfortunately, the British didn’t know that taxing the colonies was only going…

My Mayflower ancestor is Isaac Allerton who was written to be a “proper saint,” meaning that he was a Leyden Separatist. He was a tailor in London at the time of his departure on the Mayflower. There are conflicting reports of Allerton’s age when he came over to the new world, which range from age 34 to 37. He boarded the Mayflower with his wife Mary, their three children, and his tailor apprentice, John Hooke. The individuals on the Mayflower were mostly farmers with limited resources to…

Abigail Williams’ has not only held a tremendous influence over Salem, but she has changed the lives of many. Tituba was the first person she accused of witchcraft. She was the maid of Abigail’s uncle who was very kind to her. Since the accusations against her, she lost her job working for the family and she also received a bad reputation within the community. Tituba also had to confess to witchcraft so she wouldn’t be hanged, and that was a major decision she had to make. Elizabeth was another…

“Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different,” King should know having written many novels that are adapted to films. Both the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian and screen play of the film Smoke Signals, written by Sherman Alexie, attempts to demolish the idea of an archetypal aboriginal person from a Native “Rez,” but the film addresses this in a more effective way. The film has a naïve Thomas and an indifferent Victor…

In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, a variety of themes are shown. Among these themes are the issues of discrimination and intolerance. When analyzing the play one can see specific examples of both intolerance and discrimination. One may find that these issues are apparent in both past and present day lives. The characters in the play are Puritans, who sought to purify the Church of England. These people weren’t allowed to judge or hate their neighbors. The "witch hunt" allowed people in…

When abnormal events started taking places during the late 1500s and early 1600s, many early Puritans associated it with the Anti-Christ's work and deemed it as demonic and sinister. Witchcraft then became illegal since 1563 and hundreds of innocent women were wrongly accused and punished. This kind of event also took place in a small town in Salem, Massachusetts where a collection of girls fell ill and it was not long before the girls, and many other residents of Salem began to accuse other…

I will be discussing ‘The Petition of the Nobles’ and the ‘Defense of William of Orange’. ‘The Petition of the Nobles’ was brought forth by a group of nobles who objected the laws against Protestantism and the unjust sentences passed down upon them by Phillip the King of Spain. The ‘Defense of William of Orange’ was written by William after Phillip II called for his elimination by assassination in ‘The Proscription of William the Silent’ (March 1580) due to his role in being the leader in the…