Stamp Act 1765

viewed this act as another illustration of taxation tyranny. On December 16th of 1773, a group of colonist in Massachusetts disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians, gathered in Boston Harbor on three different British tea ships and discarded 342 chests of tea over the ships and into the Harbor (“Boston Tea Party,” 2007). This later was known as, “The Boston Tea Party.” This act by American colonist functioned as a protest against the British Parliament’s Tea Act of 1773. The Tea Act of 1773 was…

Background: The origins of the Canadian currency come from all across the globe. Like many nations before it the history of their monetary system starts with its native peoples. The Native Canadians traded with each other using precious metals, pelts, and crafted supplies ( beads and pottery) for hundreds of years, but all of that changed after the French explorers were introduced. In the mid 1600’s (when the french officially declared Canada as a provenance called “New France”) is when this…

At that time, the American colonies the struggling due to the arbitrariness of the British colonial power, like that of the rest of the colonies stretching in all continents of the world. One day that year colonizers decided to raise taxes on the product (tea) who brings the other colony to Colonial America, and this decision was the beginning of a popular boycott of the products followed by «revolution» violent led by activist Samuel Adams and a group of rebels who attacked three ships laden…

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…

In past times, the killing of a human was a very common practice, especially during the French Revolution. There was connection between the savagery of the boys and the beheading of people during the late 1700's. The act of beheading was used against any individual who went against higher authorities. As the boys beheaded the pig, Jack declared, "This head is for the beast. It's a gift." (Golding, 137) giving the carcass power. Simon had a connection with the sow's…

The Scopes Trial  John Scopes was a teacher in Dayton, TN, beginning around 1924. He is best known for the controversy that he caused over teaching one very touchy subject to his students, Evolution. In 1925, Tennessee passed the Butler Act which made it illegal for any teacher in a public school "to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.” John Scopes was not a…

underwent various tribulations to be deemed a hero by the people around them. With this in mind, the idea of a perfect hero cannot really be viable in today’s society, and even if it was possible, people today would see a hero very differently. Heroic acts dive into how a hero can be flawed and show signs of weakness in times of trouble as shown in how opposition can drive heroic deeds as part of morality, and why inner turmoil can be really important to becoming the hero of a story.…

in Heaven, where the protagonist, Eddie, encounters Joseph Corvelzchik, often referred to as “The Blue Man”, who informs him of the interconnected nature of life, and how the notion of random acts is entirely inaccurate within the forty-eight page of the novel, where he states, “That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.” The central message of this quote extends to the entirety of…

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 Act was repealed. This act started new ways to force colonists to pay taxes and created punishments for colonists who…

the Sons of Liberty dressed up as Indians, and boarded the ships filled with tea. They tipped the 342 crates of tea into the Boston Harbor. This raid was known as the "Boston Tea Party". This protest happened because of the British Parliament's Tea Act of 1773, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the American tea trade. The…