Essays on Boston Massacre

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Introduction The Boston Tea Party was an important episode in the history of America which gave way to the American War of Independence. This war was fought to highlight the oppressive measures by Britain, or the mother country as it was known. The Boston Tea Party is the reaction to the attitude of Britain towards its American colonies. According to TH Breen, ordinary people in predominantly rural communities were the highlight of the ensuing American Revolution (Carp, 421). This essay begins with the non-importation agreement in Boston. This is followed by the lapse of the ...

Why the War for Independence was Justified Rebellion?

The American Revolution or the War for Independence was a justified rebellion because people should be allowed to freely make their own choices within the boundaries of any governmental institution. The British government at the time had according to Thomas Jefferson become destructive of one’s right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. How unfairly it was for Great Britain to impose a tax on the American colonies? There was also no representation in parliament. This was unfair to the colonists, and it needed to be abolished. The politics of taxing the colonists would only benefit the ...

Describe how Spain, England, France and Dutch’s different economies-along with their justification for expansion-shape their settlements in North America –

The colonization of North America revolves around the need for Spain, England, and Spain to conquer and control the continent. The French and the Spaniards governed through autocratic sovereigns while the English were free to govern themselves as much as they followed the English law. The biggest advantage, therefore, for the English to expand into North America was that they allowed immigration which enabled them to boost their colonial population that helped them to participate more actively and on a wide scale in agricultural activities. The English colonies were established by a royal charter and settled first in Massachusetts ...

Central to American independence was the Revolutionary War of between 1775 and 1783, which saw the English Empire relinquish her control of the Thirteen Colonies in North America. Freedom came with the eradication of all monarchical rules and the formation of the United States of America under a Constitution to protect democracy. In that sense, Britain lost her territories because of the conflicts that emerged between the Empire and the colonists. Evidently, from the fact that the mother country sought to exert direct control over the colonies from its distant location to the notions of liberty that permeated the ...

The Tea Act Of 1773

Slide 2 The Seven Year’s War of between 1754 and 1763 and the signing of the Treaty of Paris to end the skirmishes formed the foundations on which tensions emerged between the Thirteen Colonies and the mother country (Zinn, 2005, p.59). Two factors facilitated the emergence of independence sentiments in the colonies as the colonies no longer needed the protection of the powerful Britons: The war brought perceptions of equality between the colonists and the English populace residing in the mother country (Foner, 2011, p.189). Britain was at a disadvantage as it remained with an “enormous debt and ...

Question 1.

Historian Annette Gordon-Reed states: “I think that you should approach the study of history with a spirit of curiosity. Be open minded about the possibility that the story is much bigger than what has been presented.” Considering the textbook and the discussion board content, choose one topic of American History between 1492 - 1865 on which your thinking has changed to a “bigger” understanding. Generally, all historical themes contribute to the improvement of my open-mindedness and expansion of outlook, but I would like to mark the topic of the American Revolution. Indeed, the American Revolution was a crucial part ...

American Revolutionary War is the revolution, which aimed at gaining the US independence because of the growing conflict between some American colonies and the British Crown. Though initially being a revolution, it soon developed into the international war, as France got involved in it in 1775 ("American Revolution History - American Revolution - HISTORY.com", 2009, n.p.). So, what were the causes and consequences of the American Revolutionary War? What role did French and Indian War play? What was the effect of taxation? Let us consider these and some other aspects of American Revolutionary War in detail.

Causes and Consequences

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The arrival of the British troops in Boston in the year 1768 was a cause of much unrest between the relations of the Americans and the British. The American soldiers were just as disturbed as the American citizens, who were forced to be kept under control by the British rule. America being a British colony at the time was forced to follow the rules and regulation imposed by the British. The unrest that ensued came from the colonists and the ones who were loyal to the British Parliament. As much as the personal strife between the colonists and the ...

Exam Two

The War of 1812 was a conflict between the Britain and the US. Following the conflict, the US declared war on June 18th, 1812. This war resulted in the Napoleonic Wars that caused the Great Britain to partake on measures that aggravated the United States Ward (Hickey 13). Some reasons for the war include blocking the US from international trade, impressment by the Royal Navy, British violation of maritime rights and the British support of Native American hostility (Hickey 13). Britain lost the war to America. The war of 1812 fostered a great sense of patriotism among the Americans.

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The Adams Dynasty and their impact on the U.S. The Adams family had two presidents, ambassador, and a member of the state legislature, lawyers. If that’s not impactful, nothing is. Although many of the Adams family were politically and socially involved, not everyone made a difference. The Adams lineage is a large one that impacted the U.S. greatly. Their impact on the history of U.S. is very significant because with two presidents and a politically involved family it’s almost impossible to not have one. The Adams family in America has historical roots from the emigration of Henry Adams, who married ...

At first glance it would seem that the Sons of Liberty were Colonial patriots who helped steer the course of history and inspire the American Revolution. However, some revisionist historians have reexamined the philosophy behind the organization as well as their tactics and offer a more negative viewpoint about their motives and their schemes. The question of whether the Sons of Liberty were a good or bad organization is depend on the rational one uses to examine the history. An ends means rational would indicate they that they were overall a good group because their furthered the patriotic cause. If the motivations ...

This paper is going to be a continuation of the historical character essay written about James Gray, a young Caucasian male in his early thirties who lived during the latter half of the 18th century in Boston. Boston at that time was one of the freest, most populous and most productive (and therefore most profitable) British colonies in the present day United States of America. It is also important to note that James lived at a time when Boston and the rest of the colonies were set to start a civil war that would later on lead to the abolishment of the ...

When the colonists came to North America, they shared the kings and politics with citizens who remained in Great Britain. Parliament had the ability to enact laws that affected life and trade in the thirteen colonies, but these laws were passed to benefit the British economy and not the colonists. In addition, the colonists were not given any representatives to support their arguments in Parliament. Benjamin Franklin wrote, “. . . a right to lay internal taxes was never supposed to be in Parliament, as we are not represented there “ (Digitalhistory.uh.edu). The issues the people living in the British colonies held were ...

Prior the Revolutionary War of between 1775 and 1783, Britain was in control of its American colony, much to the chagrin of the latter. With the colonization came laws of governance imposed on the Americans as a form of dominance by the British forces. With the forced management and the increasing need for independence among the colonized nation, the resulting tense relations were inevitable if not expected. Boston city was no different as its people continued to repel the presence of the Britons in its society. Consequently, on March 5, 1770, a confrontation between people from both sides, in Boston Massachusetts, ...

BOSTON TEA PARTY

If a person with poor knowledge of history hears the name of the event it will arouse association with some meeting of forebears known by their portraits on bank notes, sitting at a served table with cups in their hands. The fact that the event took place in Boston in the territory called Massachusetts being a British colony at those times and that later becoming a state, one might guess from the name and tea really had a relation with this historical fact. The name of the event is of an ironically uttered character. In order to understand why such a big party of expensive ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Part 1: 1. Intelligent, charismatic, strong, integrity, forthright, funny 2. The individual in question, my seventh grade history teacher, was the things listed and so many more. These things, however, are the characteristics that have stuck with me through the years. Primarily I remember how smart he was. He would teach us the state curriculum that was required, but he always knew more about the battle, war, speech, event, or person we were learning about at that time. He would share the information excitedly with the class and it would make me think that he was not only smart, ...

A successful revolt of the British thirteen colonies in North America was an extremely important historical event leading to the establishment of an entirely new country, the United States of America, across the Atlantic Ocean. The victory of Britain in in the Seven Years' War of 1756-1763 turned the British Empire into a dominant power in the North American continent. As a result of the war, Britain reclaimed its position as the ruler of the thirteen colonies along the Atlantic coast up to Georgia in the south, as well as seized control over the French Canadian territories in the north. Nonetheless, ...

The ways in which people interpret the past are often colored by the ways in which they see their contemporary times. One of the more colorful phenomena of American politics in the early twenty-first century has been the emergence of the Tea Party, a group that appears to want to roll back the role of government in American affairs much like the American colonists wanted to roll back British influence in North America. When a group of colonists stormed Boston Harbor in the guise of Mohawk Indians, bent on throwing a load of British tea into the harbor in protest against a new ...

Seven Years War: Seven Years War is the long struggle between the countries of Great Britain and France to gain control and supremacy over North America. The significance of the war is that it involved several countries that fought over the land, in the sea and all over the land. The result was that France lost all of its possessions to Britain, and marked the commencement of British epoch outside Europe. Proclamation of 1763: King George III introduced the Proclamation of 1763 on October 7, 1763. The Proclamation was issued to announce the acquisition of the French territory ...

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Book Review # 1: The Boston Tea Party: The Foundations of Revolution

The Boston Tea Party: the Foundations of Revolution is a book by James M. Volo. The book was published in 2012 at Westport, United States of America by Praeger Publishers Inc. The book is related to Regional History Genre and provides an exciting and enthralling synopsis of the Boston Tea Party. The vast majority of American people have hostile feelings regarding the extensive industrial aid and rescue and extravagant government expenditure that contributed to the tea party revolution. An identical kind of political supporting, offense, and reaction led to the insurgence of Boston Tea Party in ...

The Boston Tea Party was one of the major historic events during the revolutionary war in the year 1773. The historical event had a different meaning to the Americans, as well as, the British. To start with the Boston Tea Party marked a new period of liberty and victory to the Americans, The American Perspective of the historic event was not in line with the British perspective (Sanjay, 37). For instance, in the year 1770, the Americans protested leading to the parliament to cancel the duties imposed to the Townshend. However, the parliament did not cancel the entire Townshend duties. Instead, ...

Compare how 2 different authors used the same historical data and the same events in 2 different ways. Describe how accurate each of these author’s works were to the real event and what they had changed.

Introduction:

Both David McCullogh’s ‘John Adams’ and Sherman Edwards Petersburg’s 1776 are works of art which deal with the Founding Fathers and the American War for Independence. Whilst the former is a biography in the grand manner (as we are used to by McCullogh, the latter is a musical which revives the spirit of that important year and is full of interesting and ...

It is a testament to the power of propaganda that the events of March 5, 1770 were widely accepted as a massacre which remained the very symbol of British tyranny for 200 years. The skillful manipulation of facts is a hallmark of propaganda, and the men who exploited the circumstances surrounding the killing of five Americans created an atrocity that has resonated throughout American history down to the present day. As the hotbed of revolutionary fervor in the colonies, Boston was perhaps the only place where such propaganda could have taken hold; the only city from which it could have spread so ...

Introduction

Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America is a book written by Benjamin L.Carp and published in the year 2010. In this elegant and thrilling book, Carp provides the reader with a vivid description of the Boston Tea Party. The book explodes various myths and explores the scintillating Boston city life. Carp embarks on a phenomenal story telling session where he vividly brings to life the different individuals and places that have been brought together by the Tea Party -from English businesspersons to tea pickers from China, plantation slaves, native Americans and Boston’s so ...

ABSTRACT

Thomas Paine’s 1776 pamphlet Common Sense, which called for independence and denounced the monarchy as absurd, would not have found any audience in the thirteen British colonies in North America in 1776. After all, they had been on the winning side in the Seven Years War, which destroyed French power in North America forever, and their ruling elites expected to benefit from expanding trade and land speculation opportunities within the British Empire. They also thought that the ‘benign neglect’ that the colonies had grown accustomed to in the 18th Century would continue as before and they would largely ...

Abstract

The American Revolutionary War began in 1775 and ended in 1783. Originally, the war was fought by the British on one side and the Americans on the other side, but developed into a war between the Great Britain on one side and United States, France, Spain and Netherlands on the other side. In 1783, the United States of America and the British government signed a treaty to cease fighting, and this marked the official separation of United States from the British rule; the treaty officially recognized the existence of United States as a sovereign state. From the onset, this paper examines the ...

The revolutionary war, taking place from April, 19, 1775 and ending on September, 3, 1783, is one of the important turning points in the history of United States of America. Anne M. Todd gives a thoughtful insight into the circumstances leading to war, the battle locations, weapons used during the war, and the crucial authorities leading the war in her book (The Revolutionary War). According to Todd, the Revolutionary War occurred because the colonists wanted to separate from the Great Britain, and form an independent nation. A series of legislative mistakes by the British parliament emboldened the revolutionaries call for ...

The motivation to settle in the Americas included both economic interest and escape from religious persecution. After Gilbert and Raleigh returned from their expeditions, they urged the queen to challenge Spain's threat of domination in the West. After Spain attacked Antwerp in 1570, thus endangering England's hold on European cloth, England looked at the new world to find a new market for the stuff. As a result, people started to make sojourns to the Americas to try and forge new economic prospects there. People like Frobisher and Gilbert, though they failed, attempted to traverse to America in order to either find ...

The Boston Tea Party was a campaign by the Boston sons of liberty against the British tax policy and the India Company that controlled the importation of tea. On December 1773, some colonists boarded and demolished the tea after Boston officials declined returning the taxed shiploads of tea (Burgan 23). The Tea party was termination of a resistance progress in British America against the Tea Act that the British government had passed in 1773. Colonists rejected the Tea Act since they thought that it desecrated the Englishmen rights to taxation. Protesters successfully prohibited those who unloaded the taxed tea in ...

Report on Jeff Shaara’s Rise to Rebellion

This novel describes the events in North America and Britain in 1770-76 that led up to the Revolution and the Declaration of Independence. Its plot is divided into three sections (The Right and the Power, Lions and Lambs, and The Flag Unfurled), beginning on the day of the Boston Massacre in March 1770, and continuing with the Boston Tea Party, the Intolerable Acts of 1774, the battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775 and the meeting of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia to debate the pros and cons of independence. All of the major historical characters are portrayed in ...

Silent Cries: A Look at the Influences on Art that impacted the United States Before, During, and After the War Aras Through Four Pictorial Portholes History: it really is his-story. What better way to tell a story than to make sure there are pictures in it? After all, a “picture is worth a thousand words” as the adage goes. Paintings, statues, photos, even architecture, from a given time periods such as the early American Colonial days give new meaning to an event in history. On the flip side, knowing the historical background of a piece of art creates deeper meaning for it and ...

In his youthful days, Sam Adams had an immense influence over the Bostonians (especially during the 1760s and the 1770s). To his credit, Sam Adams led the Bostonians in opposing the British rule. He was at the forefront fighting for the colonies to be freed from the British dominance. This fight was not in vain because soon the states would come together to fight a common enemy: the British rulers. The events in Boston prepared the way for United States to gain self-independence. To a great extent, Sam Adams participated in fighting for the rights of the people due to his ...

In the history of the United States, the term “Tea Party” ties back to the 1773 Boston Tea Party, which was one of the defining moments of the Revolutionary War. The raid on British ships by Boston’s Sons of Liberty became an iconic moment, due to their poetic, grassroots method of rebelling against the unfair taxes of the English government. By throwing tea in response to the Tea Act of 1773, colonists expressed their displeasure that the English government was taxing them without providing proper representation in their own colonies1. Throughout the years, the legacy of the Boston ...

United States of America is a nation where people of different ethnicity have been migrated and have become an inseparable part of the society. This is an example of diversity which lacks in several countries. This diversity shows how a society can develop while respecting rights and cultures of people from different ethnicity. This ethnic diversity has strengthened the society of United States and contributed in the development of the nation. This paper discusses the ethnic roots of American Civilization and other related aspects. Modern US society is majorly constituted of British, Germans, and African Americans along with several other ...

Analysis & Reflection on Planning Instruction and Assessment

As a teacher, my purpose was to provide a learning structure that could demonstrate my ability to plan my instructions so as to meet the needs of my students and at the same time provide evidence of the impact on student learning. As a professional, I acknowledge the components to my assignment with an appendix. Some of these components include; 1) Contextual factors that are related to the entire community, the classroom or students. 2) Connecting instructional plans or units that are based on goals that I like my students to meet as well as the pre-assessment of the learners. ...

Why did the Boston Tea Party become an iconic event in the American Revolution

The Boston Tea Party remains one of the most important events in American political history as it was basically the spark which set everything off. The people in Boston were rebelling against the astronomically high duties payable on British tea which had to be borne by themselves and this was seen as a grossly unfair tax on the American nation. The maxim ‘No taxation without representation’ is the main element here and it was basically a revolt by the common people against the arbitrary and totalitarian British state who imposed its will without taking note of the consequences.

The Boston Tea Party and Alfred Young

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A1.

The two strategies that the Whig leader Samuel Adams might have used are: making connections and identification of direction of the main ideas. These two strategies focus on sharpening the aim of a discussion and exploring deeper into the discussion. Through making connections to various Whigs and participants, Samuel was able to sharpen the focus of the problem hence a convening of the meeting at Old South Meeting House. Alternatively, identification of the direction of the problem at hand—a part of exploring strategy—resulted in Samuel resolving that the ships returning to Britain without Tax being paid.

A2.

Critical thinking is important ...

Q. 1. The first strategy Thomas Hutchinson or Samuel Adams likely used to develop and improve their thinking before taking a stand and acting on their beliefs is the skill of recognizing and assessing a problem through observation. For example, before Samuel Thomas opposed the Stamp Act, he actually knew the source and effects of the Act to him as a local writer. The second strategy they possibly might have used is the skill of laying a possible scheme, analyzing and interpreting possible implications of their actions. For example, the actions of Samuel Thomas and other radicals of preventing the unloading of the ...