Summary Of The Minutemen And Their World

Why do people associate wealth with good leadership abilities? That is the main question that was lingering in my mind while I was read “The Minutemen and their World,” book by Robert Gross. The book is about a town called Concord (which is in Massachusetts). The books tells about how the city of Concord was before the Revolutionary war, during the Revolutionary war and after the revolutionary war. In this book, it shows how leaders come about and how they impact their society around them. After reading this book, it made me think about how wealthy people are always seen as leaders? Becoming wealthy in American can be a daunting task to complete. It requires a variety of different skills to make a profitable business. But does creating a lucrative business for personal gain, merits you to being a leader over the masses of common people? We currently have this exact situation playing out before our eyes with GOP candidate Donald Trump. Donald Trump doesn’t have any previous experience in political affairs, but he is currently leading

Robert A. Gross the author of “The Minutemen and their World” gives a very detailed nonfictional narrative of the small town of Concord, Massauchessets. Gross describes the American Revelotion through the eyes of this community which paints a more vivid picture of the events taking place up to the war which seperated the Unite States for Great Britian through a perspective that I have never seen before.

Every event in history contains a cause and effect. Every cause and effect is unique in its own way. Whenever deciphering certain events in history it’s important that those researching, keep an open mind to all intertwining factors. The Texas Revolution is an important and crucial event within the history of the United States and having a full understanding of the Texas Revolution is of extreme importance to understanding Mexican-American relations. Issues to be researched in understanding the Texas Revolution will deal with political, lawful, and social relations between the Texas colonists and the Mexican Republic. Understanding the politics, laws, and social relations between the Texas colonist and the Mexican Republic provide a crucial in-look as to why the Texas colonist revolted against Santa Anna and his Mexican Republic. Leading up to the beginning, as well as throughout the Texas Revolution, there are significant and credible amounts of crucial events that take place that provide a supporting backbone in justifying the Texas colonists and their revolt. It is these inhumane events, supported by the doctrine of the Mexican Republic with their politics, laws, and social relations with the Texas colonist, which would ultimately lead to the justification of the Texas colonist and their fight for their natural rights and for the Texas Declaration of Independence.

This is something that leads up to the dust bowl from happening. “Dry land farming on the Great Plains led to the systematic destruction of the prairie grasses. In the ranching regions, overgrazing also destroyed large areas of grassland. Gradually, the land was laid bare, and significant environmental damage began to occur. Among the natural elements, the strong winds of the region were particularly devastating.”("The Dust Bowl") What it is explaining is that all the dust that gathered up by the farms and plantations, was a cause to the dust bowl since farmers had left their productivity, of growing their crops, behind. Most of the families had been their for centuries, so it was really hard for them to leave most of their homes and natural elements behind as they tried to travel north. Although farms and industries were forced to plant in the dry plain, it caused a mass corruption in almost every state in the United States. Having to be forced to plant caused a mass corruption after the dust bowl. Cattle died and farmers had to give up their land and find somewhere else to live, this analyzes that farmers were uncomfortable with working in these

Massachusetts declared to be in a state of rebellion because the passed resolution of unconstitutional Coercive Act urged the people of Massachusetts to form government to collect taxes, to arm and form their own militia. They countermeasure by created Committee of Safety empowered to call out military and authorized special group within military called minutemen to be ready on a minute’s notice. Because the British troops were on their way to seize military supplies store in Concord.

On 19 April 1775, the battle begun. The colony protected by local militiamen was vastly outnumbered, armed with only 77 men including “minutemen,” named for their ability to be ready to fight in a minute’s notice were

In the book “Shays’ Rebellion: Authority and Distress in Post-revolutionary America”, Sean Condon shows us his outlook on how he saw post-revolutionary America to be within the late 1770’s and 1780’s. This book was released in 2015 by John Hopkins University Press, and was also made in a continuing book series by Peter Charles Hoffer and Willamjames Hull Hofer called Witness to History. The story takes us "Throughout the late summer and fall of 1786, farmers in central and western Massachusetts organized themselves into armed groups to protest against established authority and aggressive creditors. Calling themselves "regulators" or the "voice of the people.”” [1] Condon succeeds by prosing an appealing idea in an upfront style that shapes

The supporters of Shays’ Rebellion were doing what was right and letting the government know that they didn’t like the immensely high taxes that were in place. They fought for their rights, were illegitimately jailed, and the law enforcement misused their authority. Even if the odds were against them, the farmers still took action and protested. These signs of bravery and courage show that the protesters were not rebels, but freedom

The British were informed that the colonists had weapons near Concord and went to find them, but the colonists were also informed that the British were going Concord. On the way to Concord, the British encountered a group of Minutemen in Lexington who were ready to battle, but the British easily won and many Minutemen were dead or wounded. Despite the loss, the colonists were willing to fight for freedom. Even though they knew they did not have a chance, they were willing to risk their lives. When the British reached Concord, they did not find guns, but they found Minutemen and soon the British were fleeing. The Minutemen would hide and every time they found a fleeing redcoat they would should at them and this was tactic that the British had not seen and it caused them to lose many men. America had a major debt problem after the Revolutionary War, but they were willing to deal with that because getting their freedom was so important to them. The mentality that the colonists had during the war allowed them to succeed and create their

England made any town meeting, except authorized by the governor illegal, and housed British soldiers in select public buildings. In Massachusetts the British military governor, General Gage, ordered his 3,500 British soldiers in Boston to seize armories and storehouses in Charlestown and Cambridge. After the seizure, 20,000 colonial militiamen mobilized to protect other military supply depots and in the town of Concord the famous defensive force, the Minutemen, were organized.2 With these acts Parliament declared that Massachusetts was in open rebellion. British Secretary of State, Lord Dartmouth, quickly ordered Gage to send his soldiers on a search and destroy mission to capture colonial leaders, and military supplies in Concord. “At the same time Gage would attempt to find, capture, or kill John Hancock and Samuel Adams.”3 The stage was set for the first major engagements of the American Revolution.

Those foreboding shots released on the fields of Lexington and Concord on April nineteenth, 1775 meant the presentation of bona fide American opportunity. From this moment on, the debilitating outing of securing and extending adaptability to all began, an outing not yet wrapped up. Opportunity for the pilgrims was not won on the bleeding edge, nor was it gotten when ink stamped material; rather, the start of authentic adaptability for America began from a noteworthy move of characteristics and wishes significant inside the structure holding the framework together. The American Revolution, from 1775 to 1787, was not only a triumph of guns on the battle zone, moreover a triumph of social, fiscal, and political qualities, essential societal changes,

The Boston Massacre is one of the most controversial events in American history that occurred in Boston before the American Revolution. Certainly, it has a fundamental role in the development of America as a nation, which led it to have a huge motivation for revolution. A heavy British military presence and having very high taxes in the country were some of the main reasons that made Boston citizens very irritated. Thus, there were already many disagreements and tensions between inhabitants and the British that could have led to the Massacre. In this essay, I will carefully analyze three primary sources, and compare these to the interpretation given by HBO’s John Adams. In my view, these sources can be

     Farmers were once known for being able to do everything themselves. They grew their own food and sewed their own clothes. People often yearn for the old days and complain about so many people living in cities. Many farmers had to give up their farms and move to the cities, because of something that happened in the late nineteenth century.

To begin, the Farmington resolutions provided a sense of unification between the Americans. This is evident when an almost one-thousand people attended the public gathering in Farmington. The Intolerable acts helped sharpen the disapproval and hatred towards the British and the acts helped with the “enforcement of the edict resulted in wide colonial sympathy, particularly in neighboring Connecticut” . Correspondingly, this disapproval and hatred can be derived from the tone and language of the resolutions. The reader can also sense an emphasis on the idea of separatism towards the British. With the idea of separatism, the Americans would have to unite as mentioned before and it was evident with the radicals (composed of artisans, farmers, assemblymen,

In one basic respect, the Pilgrims are a logical outcome of the Reformation. This alliance was dangerous, as Separatist were often arrested, imprisoned, even hanged for treason on the orders of King James I of England. When Bradford and his fellow separatist heard King James I was intending to “harry them for the land”, (Kelso, 2005) the entire congregation fled to the Netherlands.