Weymouth, Massachusetts

1. From the perspective of James Otis there are numerous people I would love to “date” again. I would like to date John Adams again because we were good friends, and worked together to get the Townshend Act repealed. John is strongly against taxation without representation, which was something I felt strongly about as well. I would also like to date Samuel Adams because he made efforts to repeal the stamp and tea acts, two acts that were inflicted upon the colonies without adequate representation in Parliament. Last of all, I would like to date my sister Mercy Otis Warren. We worked together in forming the Massachusetts Committee of Correspondence and she became more involved in the revolution because British officials beat me up. 2. From…

Abigail Smith Adams was born to William Smith and Elizabeth Quincy in Weymouth, Massachusetts on November 11, 1744. Her Father was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts on January 29th, 1706. He was a Congregational minister before he died in 1783. Her mother was born in Braintree, Massachusetts in 1721 and married in 1740 before she died in 1775. Abigail was known as “Mrs. President” due to the amount of influence and strength she portrayed as first lady of the United States. In her childhood,…

John Adams was born, October 30, 1735 in Braintree, Massachusetts and also had two siblings, Peter Adams and Elihu Adams. John Adams grew up in a religious home with his father serving as a church deacon. He attended a private school in Braintree and he would eventually graduate from Harvard, at age 20, and receive a B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) and M.A. (Master of Arts). He married Abigail Smith on October 25, 1764 in Weymouth, Massachusetts. John Adams had been married to her for 54 years and…

important in life because you may not know it, but you are giving up something every day. In order to understand why Abigail was so big on sacrifice, it is important to understand what her life was like. Abigail’s full name was Abigail Smith Adams and she was born on November 11, 1744 in Weymouth, Massachusetts but, she died on October 28, 1818 of Typhoid fever in Quincy, Massachusetts. When Abigail was 30 years old, the Revolutionary war had started and she became very involved with it because…

New England vs. the Chesapeake Region (DBQ) Settlers arrived to the Chesapeake region only to be greeted by unhealthy lands full of despair and labor. New Englanders, on the other hand, were welcomed by fresh air and clean water. As the years passed, the state of these two lands stabilized a bit with each other, but the people’s way of living in these regions did not. New England and the Chesapeake region developed differently because of the types of people who came to each of these places,…

Many colonies developed along the coast of America, however, the earliest and perhaps most influential by the English were Virginia (notably the Chesapeake area) and New England (with Massachusetts the hearth of society). They shared many characteristics such as desiring the rights of Englishmen which entails struggles with their homeland. However, there were stark differences by their lifestyles through the Chesapeake’s landownership and New England’s church based politics, the social ideals of…

write about this era is none other than Nathaniel Hawthorne. In his story Young Goodman Brown Hawthorne uses setting, symbolism, theme, and mood to describe a man’s struggle in fighting evil’s urges to make him stray away from his faith. Especially, in a time where religious control and accusations were at an all time high. Although this story is fiction, it may be a good depiction of how some individuals felt psychologically during such social disorder. Every story has to have a setting. It…

“Henry David Thoreau devoted his energies to exploring the spiritual relationship between humanity and nature and to living by his political and social beliefs.” As said by Sam Erickson. Thoreau was a transcendentalist and is known today as one of the “Big Three” in American Literature along with Walt Whitman and Ralph Emerson. Thoreau devoted his life to explore the importance of humanity and nature. For two years Thoreau lived in a cabin he built at Walden Pond. It was here where he wrote…

The New Englanders desired a place where they prosper together as a community. They were more than concerned about the moral health of the whole community and would do whatever was called for to keep their community strong and happy. "This court … in the interim recommends [that] all tradesmen and laborers consider the religious end of their callings, which is that receiving such moderate profits as may enable them to serve God and their neighbors", DOC. E, this shows that they would give their…

The “American Dream” is a recurrent phrase that used in different ways as time goes on. Liberty, freedom, equality and prosperity are just some of the words used to define this phrase. In the past, the American Dream’s main purpose for citizens was to build a stable lifestyle and become better in life than the previous generations. In today’s era one of the examples of the American Dream is the There are many ways the American dream can be brought up in today’s era, such as citizens having the…