Townshend Acts

both them and their houses. The first one to be lethally harmed is Mercutio of the house of the Montagues. Romeo instantly kills Tybalt, taking revenge for Mercutio’s death. This act causes him to be banished by the prince, and therefore leave Juliet. Violence is even more intense during the third scene of the fifth act, where Romeo kills Paris and, when he sees Juliet dead, drinks a poison he bought and falls dead. The last person to die is Juliet, who stabs herself with Romeo’s knife, as soon…

Other factors that could have caused the defeat of the Spanish Armada besides the Protestant wind involves looking at events that took place before and during the invasion. The ultimate responsibility for launching, devising and failing the overthrow of the Protestant English regime was placed on King Philip II. After the disappointing failure in his launch of the Spanish Armada, people back at home blamed him for disregarding professional advice given to him by his captains. Professional…

Intolerable Acts, also known as Coercive Acts, were for the major part of the 1770s, the main causes of the economic tensions between the British Parliament and the American colonists. In the book, The Common Cause, David Ammerman, deeply explains how and why the American colonists reacted the way they did when these acts were passed by the British Parliament. The intention of these acts such as the Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Justice Act, Quartering Act, and the Quebec Act,…

Declaration of Nathaniel Bacon Nathaniel Bacon killed off a lot of Native Americans furthermore he demonstrated that poor whites and blacks could band together to put terror into the wealthy government. Nathaniel Bacon’s rebellion was an extraordinary revolution against the Virginia government before the American Revolution. Many events furnished to the rising of the rebellion. Nathaniel Bacon list is a secondary source in this journal entry, he brings highlight to the misdeeds of the Virginia…

The widely known Boston massacre was one of the most iconic events that helped shape our United States of America. On March 5, 1770 eight British soldiers will fire onto a crowd on Kingś street killing five colonists and injuring many more. I do not believe Captain Preston or his men are to blame for firing among what turned into a rioting mob. Throughout this paper I will prove Captain Preston and his British soldiers are not guilty of murder but instead acted in self defence against an…

received. The colonies believed the acts with taxation were unfair because their own legislation had the authority to tax them. Because of the Boston Tea Party, which was where the British dumped out tea as a way of protesting in Boston, the British government became furious at the colonists. The colonial leaders wanted to defend their self government and liberty. The British government launched the Intolerable Acts, punishment laws passed in 1774. These acts were meant to punish the colonists…

The root causes for the American Revolution was when Great Britain started to place Acts such as the Sugar Act of 1764, The Revenue Act of 1764, and the Stamp Act of 1765 to enforce higher taxes and/or fines to make the colonists help pay for the own debt due to the Seven Years’ War. The Sugar Act of 1764 was to lower taxes on molasses imported in North America from the French West Indies. On the other hand it was established to end widespread of smuggling by the colonial merchant but due to…

These protests against such policies were both positive and negative towards the treatment of the colonists, take for example the enforcement of the Intolerable Act which was a rule set in part due to the Boston Tea Party event and resulted in the total shutdown of the Boston seaports. Socially, the colonists were united by their dislike towards the British Crown and their suppressive rules. In addition to the…

largely untouched by the war. The Sugar Act and the Stamp Act helped pay for war debt, the Passage of Proclamation 1763 prevented movement across the Appalachians, which presented a problem, and the Albany Plan of Union which was used to centralize a government. All of these were important aspects of the French and Indian War. The French and Indian War was a major victory for the British, but left them in so much debt that they passed these acts. The Sugar Act was a British Law passed by…

The Stamp Act was an act imposed by Great Britain to demand tax on the British America colonists. The British need the tax to pay for their troops. But the colonists felt upset about the Stamp Act mainly because they considered it a violation without their consent; and it threatened their liberty. The Stamp Act was a burden for all of the British America colonists. All the British America colonists felt that they do not need to follow their country anymore, and it is time to fight for…