Tribe of Benjamin

Define and give the significance of the following Key Terms: The Dominion of New England: The Dominion of New England was a coalition of New England colonies in 1686 created by King James II. It originally consisted of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Plymouth, Massachusetts, and Connecticut and had its capital in Boston. Later, in 1688, James II added the Jerseys and New York. Individually operated state legislative branches were dissipated, and Sir Edmund Andros took over as the governor of the…

Introduction During the American Revolution and in the years leading up to the war, thousands of colonists in the royal colonies fought back against the injustice of Great Britain, this eventually led to the fight for independence. From the beginning of the war the colonists looked at the French for assistance and the French did secretly help the colonists by sending hundreds of thousands of guns, ammos, and clothing for the soldiers. Initially, the French didn’t want to intervene in the war…

In “Narrative of Commercial Life,” T. H. Breen explores economic and cultural changes in eighteenth century British North America that came about after the French and Indian War. Breen argues that those changes informed colonial protest movements, most notably nonimportation agreements, and that those “specific styles of resistance” caused colonists to unite and “...to reimagine themselves within an independent commercial empire” (Breen 472). Staughton Lynd and David Waldstreicher’s article…

From Resistance to Revolution, by Pauline Maier is an analysis of the ideological evolution of American radicals from 1765 to 1776. Maier primarily focuses her study on those who were leaders in opposition to the Stamp Act of 1765 leading up to independence from Britain, and how their instruction over protestors were very much in line with real Whig thought of the 17th and 18th century. She claims that with this knowledge of previous exposure to the rules and tradition of English…

Avrial Turner Mrs. Maine British Literature Date Title C.S. Lewis was the leading edge of his day, and still continues to be a source of intuitive thought in the modern day even after his death. His works are unprecedented and widely known. One of Lewis’ most well known books is titled Mere Christianity in which he describes the reasons to believe in a God and what those who believe in the Christian God should act and be like. One of Lewis’ lesser known books is entitled Till We Have Faces.…

The British caused many deaths and Indians suffered a lot from being under the British government and was hard for them to live a normal life while having British men roaming the streets. While the British want India's goods and want to make profit off of their cash crops. The British first came to India in the 1600s while the British East India Company started setting up trading posts in Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta. The British East India Company quickly took advantage of the growing weakness…

Colby Evenson Mrs. Harris AP Language 31 October 2016 Paine and Henry Thomas Paine and Patrick Henry were two of several authors during the colonial era. Jefferson and Henry, like many other authors in this time, used their writing to help persuade people from the British. Henry was made famous for his speech he gave in the House of Burgess and Paine’s writing helped shape many of the ideas that marked the Age of Revolution. Many colonial authors, including Henry and Paine, used several…

“You may choose to look the other way, but you can never again say you did not know”-William Wilberforce. King Louis XVI ruled over depleted finances, he dealt with poor grain, harvests, drought, and cattle diseases and what he did to solve that problem raise high taxes that later would backfire and cause people to revolt. There are three estates the 1st estate was the one that no one could you had to be born of royal blood, the Aristocracy they had masses of wealth and land. The 2nd estate was…

Have you ever heard of a man named Henry the Navigator? If you have, did you ever hear of his amazing, groundbreaking accomplishments? If not, don’t waste any time learning about this famous, influential, and truly great explorer. Not only was he an explorer, a prince, and a figure we praise, but he also made many contributions in our history. He started off as any other person, but quickly became a part of an exploration business. This essay will further explain the next four topics based on…

A stigma that was attached to English culture during the late eighteenth century is that to be considered entirely English you needed to be free of racial and cultural others. The preservation of the necessary boundaries between the colonised racial and the national self solely relied on the aspect of historical Englishness. Attached to every culture there are always particular stereotypes and being English is no different. Actions such as tea drinking and wearing silk garments were commodities…