Sherman Antitrust Act

This event had a large impact on american society and around the world to this day. There was many reasons that the American Revolution occurred. The first cause was the Stamp Act. It was created in May 10, 1773. It was created to help save the British East India Company and to save the British economy. The Tea Act gave the British East India Company nearly total control of the market for tea and removed some taxes on tea, making colonist less expensive for the colonist. The colonist didn't…

Therefore, in 1763, George Greenville looked to the colonies help assist the cost of their war (Was the American Revolution Inevitable, 2011). So, England started imposing taxes on the colonies and the first one was the Stamp Act of 1765. In general, the Act was incorporated to tax anything formally written or printed would have to be on special stamped paper which required a…

There seems to be a major battle between two entities in every subject matter of life and we are always drawn to it because it demands we pick a side amongst the rivals. The more famous of rivalries are evident in the sports world. In baseball you have the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees. In football, the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers; The Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics have battled and torn each other up since the 1960’s. Outside the sports world you have rivalries such…

The French and Indian War Introduction Have you ever wondered how America won its independence from England? When people came from England to find more land and to have their own religion, they were still under the control of England. Since they arrived, the colonists had to follow everything the king of England said, like taxes and laws that were being passed for these explorers. Then, the colonists got tired of the king of England made a stand for their independence. There was one particular…

In 1925, the Scopes Trial occurred because John Scopes, a high school teacher, was accused of breaking Tennessee’s law against the teaching of evolution in public schools. The prosecution welcomed William Jennings Bryan to take part in the trial, while the defense chose Clarence Darrow on their team. Bryan was a firm religious fundamentalist, however encouraged the indictment to battle its fight on sacred grounds. Bryan trusted that groups were legitimized in setting educational principles…

The preamble to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom states, “Canada is grounded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God” (Russell 1999). According to Russell (1999), this can also be considered the “God-clause.” The three articles discuss this notion of stating “the supremacy of God” in the preamble of the Canadian Charter. Although the articles have different views about the preamble, I highly agree with Russell’s (1999) article titled, “The Supremacy of God does not belong…

The historical fiction novel, Rise to Rebellion, is about the lead up to, the strategies of, and the politics behind the Revolutionary War told from numerous points of view throughout the novel. The book starts out with a man, who remains nameless, who is a part of the British military. The book describes a horrible ordeal that goes down in Boston, Massachusetts, which later you find out was the Boston Massacre. This event caused a great number of people on both opposing sides of the dispute to…

have the belief that the British are not to blame in this situation and that they were only acting in self-defense. In reality, the opposite is true. So let us review the events of that fateful day. A crowd gathered to protest the unfair Townshend acts that, as you know, have placed taxes on common goods like tea, paper, glass, lead, and paints. A British sentry called for backup dealing with the crowd. At this point, the crowd started throwing snowballs in protest and one young man had become…

weren’t in favor of this. American colonies were in an economic depression, due to supplying food and supplies to British Army, so timing with the tax from Britain caused a rise of frustration with the colonists. At first came the Sugar Act from Britain. The Sugar Act was an indirect tax, Boundless says the tax, “had imposed a tax of…

The Founding Fathers wrote the Declaration of Independence on July 4,1776 to explain the colonists opinion on why they wanted to become independent from Great Britain. The reason the colonist wanted to be independent from Great Britain was because of the taxes that were being handed to the colonist for multiple reasons. The Declaration of Independence declared Americans three rights which are life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. This document had been signed on July of 1776 and marked the…