Volstead Act

How many of you reading this drink coffee? 80 percent of Americans drink coffee1. Americans drink coffee a lot of the time without knowing the reasons why they choose it over tea. I correlate drinking coffee with the American Revolution and the Boston Tea Party. I will be discussing the history of coffee culture in America by going over how we starting drinking coffee over tea. I will start by going over the history of the coffee culture in America by discussing the Boston Tea Party and the…

When the British made this act, this made the colonists not be able to move westward passed the Appalachian Mountains. The Colonist were furios due to the act. Colonist were not able to gain more land and that was one of the main reasons why there were many colonist. All they wanted was cheap, affordable land but the british took all of that…

There were many events that caused us to have a sense of unity as the colonies and want to rebel for independence from Britain. The main reason was because of the French and Indian War. Britain had to heavily tax the colonies because they were in debt from war. This also caused us to acquire a greater sense of unity. Also, the Proclamation of 1763 caused us to want to rebel for independence. This banned settlement for the colonists, which was an unfair rule from Britain. Other patriots as well…

The 1862 Homestead Act made to measure lands accessible to homesteaders, the act specified that men and women over and within the age of 21 and single women who were the head any family and married men under and within the age of 21 who do not own over 160acres of land elsewhere were and eligible citizens or wished to become citizens of the United States were qualified to be homestead. The circulation of government lands had been a problem from the time the Revolutionary War, early…

This source is Acts of the Apostles (21:31- 28:31), from the New Testament. It is a religious work that is a written account of what occurred in the decades after the emergence of Jesus as a player in history. It appears to be a work produced around the late first century, (Richard Pervo, 14) in the years after jesus’s death. The source discusses events that occurred to Paul after Jesus had died. It seems to be written by Luke (Richard Pervo, 13-14), this source is a compilation of Paul’s…

£384,000 a year to maintain.” Parliament needed to find a way to offset this significant debt and replenish its national treasury. Thus, Great Britain exercised its power through taxes. Numerous acts were imposed on the colonists to restore the funds lost during the war. The Sugar Act, or the Revenue Act, was passed by Parliament on April 5,…

The british empire helped to establish the thirteen colonies in the new world, however the british did not enforce their power over the colonies.When the colonist had already begun to self-govern themselves ,britain then asserted power over the colonies by creating unjust laws and taxes.The colonist based on many factors believed that they were being mistreated in which caused them to protest.When their protest efforts did not change the way they were being treated the colonist decided to…

The Lord tells Ananias to “go over to Straight Street, to the house of Judas. When you get there ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul. He is praying to me right now.” In this one verse there is so much evidence of the truth of the Bible. The book of Acts was written between 60 and 64 AD by Luke so, at the time of the writing, there would have been hundreds of people who were alive at the time these events occurred who would have been able to dispute these events if they were inaccurate. Luke…

over to the left of me and I notice my bible laying on my bed, and before I doze off take my well needed nap, I open my bible and and I stumble across this bible verse- Galations 5 19-21 Galatians 5:19-21New International Version (NIV) 19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did…

Genres and Figures of Speech Overwhelming for many, the Bible presents challenges as one begins to read it. Written by multiple authors, and inspired by God, it displays a variety of genres and figures of speech sprinkled throughout for the reader to experience. Becoming familiar with several of the different genres and figures of speech within the Bible, a person’s understanding of it will increase. Genres Apodictic Law One of two major types of legal material present in the Old Testament,…