Massachusetts Government Act

Alana Daniels Mrs.Miller APL-5 9/20/2017 Salem Witch Trials: How did the Salem Witch Trials change the legal system? The Salem Witch Trials were a very important event in our nation’s history. In colonial Massachusetts where both men and women were being accused of being witches and of creating witchcraft. The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused between February 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of many people. The time period

of the American RevolutionThe American Revolution had many significant causes that paved the way for the United States becoming a nation. Most significant event include taxation after the 7 Years Wars, mini-battles before the war and the Intolerable Acts also had an impact on the colonist’s rage against Britain. The colonist’s representation was taken away and caused outrage. The Sons of Liberty were a Patriot militia group formed to start protests, and to show that the colonists were in charge. The

The coercive acts came to be when the British got upset/mad from the event of the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party was an event when the Sons of liberty destroyed tons of British tea by dumping it into the river. The British then established a series of four acts to try to restore order. First the Boston Port Act, which was the port to be closed until the tea that was dumped into the river was paid for. Second Massachusetts Governing Act, to suppress town meeting and trials of royal officials

The Boston Tea Party was the first significant act of defiance by American colonists and is a defining event in American history. The Boston Tea Party phases five phase starting with the body of the people. The body of the people consist of Samual Adams and over 11,000 men and women in Boston. The second phase was described as the final straw because the people were getting tired of the british at this point. The secret plan was about taking action, the symbolism of the indian dress, and the amount

exercise of the right to vote. John Adams was a disciplined scholar that gained knowledge of government and law through his attendance at Harvard University at the age of sixteen. In 1758 he became a recognized able lawyer in Braintree, Massachusetts where he was born. Adams became very involved in government decisions and drew up a set of resolutions protesting the Stamp Act of 1764. He insisted that the act was not binding on the colonies because they were not represented in Britain 's Parliament

The American Revolution was fought from 1775-1783, the war happened because of the tension that was building between Great Britain and their thirteen colonies. From 1607 to 1763, Britain gave the thirteen colonies benign and salutary neglect. Even though the colonists lived under the Mercantilist doctrine, they were still allowed to prosper while under Great Britain’s authority. The French and Indian war changed their relationship.Great Britain going to war with France caused them to accumulate a

believed they were treated unfairly by the Democrats and the Republicans. The populists proposed a national currency, coinage of silver to gold at a ratio of sixteen to one, federal loans to farmers, graduated income tax, abolish national banks, government ownership of railroads, telephone and telegraph systems, prohibition of alien land ownership, a secret ballot system, civil service reform, immigration restriction, an eight-hour day, abolition of the Pinkerton system, the right of initiative and

colonists desired to have their own nation, but the British government continued to place laws and rules over them so they would not lose rule over them. First they were taxed for printed papers they used, but they did not submit to that law. Next they were being taxed on imported good, which they also denounced and began to not take the imported goods from the British (boycott). The colonists were tired of having the British government ruling over them and not allowing them create their own laws

John Parker lined up his handful of men on Lexington Common, the revolution itself was not a battle of bullets but a battle of opinion that began in the early 1760s.” These contributing factors include: The Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, the Townshend Acts, the Tea Act, and the Coercive Acts. As these factors are stumbled upon chronologically, hostility between the Americans and British grows in a snowball effect which leads to the battle of Lexington and Concord. With this in mind, the British were

outlaw slavery from its state. Not only were slaves getting more rights, but free blacks were also starting to gain more rights giving them a similar status to white citizens in that some could vote which reached certain requirements. In 1783 Massachusetts declared that free blacks, which paid