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Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson’s collaboration, The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism, and Todd Gitlin’s book, Occupy Nation, examine the formation and workings of two politically dichotomous social movements, the Tea Party Movement and the Occupy Wall Street Movement respectively. Both books profile each social movement profoundly and conduct rigorous research before making their respective conclusions about the causes and effects of each social movement. I found both…

The United States: Democracy or Aristocracy? Following the American Revolution, Americans fell under the economic tension resulting from the discontinued trade with their main trade partner, England, and many Americans doubted their republic’s ability to recover from this economic struggle. Furthermore, rebellions in Massachusetts in 1786 led the states to recognize the turmoil they would soon endure if nothing reparative occurred. In response to this crisis, each state sent delegates to meet…

The Continental Congress was created to govern the colonies while trying to keep it secret. There was two Congresses before and during the Revolutionary War. Both times they met they naturally talked about the problems at hand and what to do to oppose them. For example taxes,British government,and other major events like war . If you know little about the continental army,First Continental Congress, and the second Continental Congress then keep reading. You may learn something new. The First…

knows something about the Boston Tea Party, but some people have a misunderstanding of the events occurring at that time in our country’s history and what lead the colonists to act the way they did toward the British government. The Tea Act of 1773 was supposed to benefit the colonists by lowering tax rates on tea. Instead of being content with this arrangement, the colonists were enraged. They felt it was unfair of England to make them pay taxes at all. The Tea Act did too little, and did…

American colonists and the policies of Great Britain, the colonists were justified in waging war against Great Britain. Firstly, one of the biggest complaints the colonists had was about being taxed unfairly. With such Acts as the Stamp Act and the Tea Act, the colonists became more and more upset with the taxation of everyday necessities. In document 2, an excerpt from Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania by John Dickinson, Dickinson explains his feelings about…

Levi Mutter Chapter 8 – America Secedes from the Empire Key Names, Events, and Terms Minutemen – Militiamen who were patriots and willing to fight for freedom in America, but were not well trained. Second Continental Congress – Another Continental Congress in which most important decision was probably to make George Washington the leader of the army besieging Boston. Ethan Allen – One of the leaders who captured British garrisons at Ticonderoga and Crown Point in 1775. Benedict Arnold – The…

comments of how the British treated them badly. One of his most profound reasoning was when Jefferson said that King George “took away their charters and altering fundamentally the forms of our government.” For example, “when the Tea Act of 1773 passed and the Bostonian threw the tea overboard, Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts, which completely closed the ports of Boston and altered Massachusetts’s government, enabling royal officials to govern the colony.” To elaborate, Thomas Jefferson…

1773, he blindly participated in the Boston Tea Party by ushering the ships to dock at the harbor. November 28, when the Dartmouth arrived at the Boston Harbor. Adams and other people that walked the streets were determined that the tea on board would not reach the land. On the evening of the 28th, if caught by the police, the group would threaten conflict. Two other ships arrived with Dartmouth, the Beaver and Eleanor, with the same crates of tea. The Tea Act required that the tax was paid in…

During the time of the settlements in the New World, France was the latest country to begin to settle in North America. This gap between the British and Spaniards arriving and the French arriving gave them the opportunity to explore and claim more land before the French had even come to America. Also during the time that the French ventured over the seas their country was in turmoil. The French settlers also had few reasons to wish to travel to the colonies. Their colonial government was…

As the gifts declined, so did the Confederacy’s power. Without the rivalry between the French and British, the Haudenosaunee lost their vital place as intermediaries between the two superpowers, forcing them to adopt a new strategy to survive. The Treaty of Fort Stanwix signified a shift in Haudenosaunee strategy from mediating between rivals to fraudulently selling land belonging to other Indians. By 1768, the British were attempting to complete their proclamation line issued in 1763,…