MacDowell Colony

In the middle of the 1700’s, America was not yet America, just mere colonies ruled by the British. However, soon the colonists found themselves restricted by the English, and the tension between them separated them. The once healthy relationship among the colonists and England is now tainted. That’s when the colonists’ desire for independence began. In 1776, their war for independence broke out. There are a lot of events that led up to the American Revolution, one of them was the Tea Act. As a way

of the newspapers, pamphlets and public coffee shops were the news media. Early 1773 was the new act, The Tea Act, which caused more ruckuses. The East India Company needed to make money although they were the only company selling the tea in the colonies (7). The east India Company trying to eliminate the middle man they lower the cost of the newly found drink. The tea act however made many of the colonist very anger. They feared that the east India company

1. Early Great Britain’s influence on the New World gave way for developing colonies. Being supportive of laws, the British passed on their methods of freedom to the Americas. The British believed that a crucial part of freedom was to obey a specific structure of laws, to be free was to be under government rule. Therefore, “British freedom celebrated the rule of the law, the right to live under legislation”. Furthermore, religion, specifically Christianity, also played an important role in the birth

In 1607 three ships carried more than 100 passengers that found an island and named it Jamestown. But little did they know what terrors lay ahead of them. In 1607 three English ships had traveled through Cheesecake Bay and sailed up to the James river. The three ships than found an island and named it after King James. In the beginning only men came to the island, but after some years women and children began to come to Jamestown as well. Jamestown was not full of animals. Jamestown was full of death

again with taxes that were “unfair and unconstitutional.” During the Second Continental Congress, colonists laid out several of the faults of Great Britain, including: giving/granting money without their consent, suspending the legislature of one colony, and interdicting all commerce. By laying out these faults, the colonists were able to show that their grievances were not just about taxes, it were these factors plus many more that led the Second Continental Congress to decide on whether they were

The American Revolution took place around the seven years’ war. When the Thirteen Colonies were fed up with taxation without representation, and other money making schemes. To solve this, a group of men, known as our founding fathers, came up with a document. The Declaration of Independence, which basically stated that we, the Americans, wanted independence from the British. One of the problems with the British was the money. For helping with the French and Indian war they wanted money. War was

In the text it states, “About 80 percent of the immigrants to the Chesapeake during the seventeenth century came as indentured servants” (Roark 60). This evidence exhibits the fact that slaves weren’t exclusively being captured and brought to the colonies just yet, and if they were they weren’t the major amount that they end up being in 1750. This

every way stay with Britian because they felt as if Britian could always provide for them, but patriots wanted to break away from an oppressive government. The patriots wanted to branch off from Britian, but they needed support from the public of the colonies. The people the patriots needed the most were the loyalists, in which wished to stay under the British rule. To swaid the loyalists, patriots made joining them look as if something as heroism. Patrich Henry says in the infamous “Give me Liberty or

American Revolution. But there are three events that are important. These three events were the Stamp Act, the Boston Tea Party, and the Quartering Acts. The first event was the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act is when King George decided he needed to tax the colonies over in America because he needed to pay for the wars they fought (uniforms, weapons, food, shelter, supplies, etc.). So when he passed the Stamp Act, all the colonists had to pay a tax on paper like newspapers, playing cards, and regular paper.

money from the stamps to help pay for the recently concluded French and Indian War because England was in a great deal of debt. People in the colonies thought of themselves as equal to the people in England, but the people in Britain didn't agree. So when the British tried to force a tax on them, the colonists realized the truth. This sparked things in the colonies such as riots and the burning of supporters houses. Different groups of colonists reacted differently to the stamp act; wealthy colonists