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    what the British had planned, and sent out Paul Revere to go and warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock. Paul Revere didn’t know if he would make it out of Boston safely, so he made a plan. He would put lanterns in the North Church Steeple. He would light one lantern if the British were heading their way by land, and two if they were coming by sea. On April 18th, sailed across the Boston Harbor so they could start their march towards Lexington. So, Paul Revere hung two lanterns in the steeple. Then him

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    Introduction Did you know, that there were dozens of events that lead up to American Revolutionary War? Well, that question will be answered. These paragraphs will only be about the American Revolutionary War. Enjoy!! Events Leading to war The Boston Tea Party took place in Boston, December 16, 1773. The Boston Tea Party started because England had made the tea taxes really high without telling people and because England didn’t do

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    to differ. This story told as from Revere reveals the dark side of the soldiers. It was MArch, 1770 and another protest had formed this time harassing the soldiers. Then a fire was shot and as from an engraving this was now the “Bloody Massacre.” You may know this affair as ¨The Bloody Massacre¨, The Boston Massacre, ¨the incident on King street¨, but do you know the true story. In this tractate youĺl find why this event even happened, the scene itself, how Paul revere's engraving was actually a propaganda

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    Time Capsule History

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    In 1795 Paul Revere and Samuel Adams placed in the cornerstone of the Massachusetts Statehouse a time capsule. It was a small box, an inch and a half deep and about half the size of a piece of printer paper. Two-hundred and twenty years pass- neighborhoods are built, colleges, schools, churches; the Civil War, and its draft riots, begin and end. Flight is conquered; the automatic rifle is invented- the typewriter, telegraph, television, and the computer soon follow. Awash with war, the twentieth

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    the colonists. The enormous fight endangered many people. There were also people killed during the vicious fight. Crispus Attuck was the first to hit bottom when the fight broke out. The incident heavily publicized by leading patriots, such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams, to encourage rebellion against the British authorities. On the snowy evening a British soldier named Hugh White became involved in a confrontation with the citizens. Hugh white struck a little boy named Edward Garrick with the

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    With revolution on the rise and independence in colonist minds, it starts to be clear that the definition of American is becoming more evident in British minds. With the first few acts such as the Stamp Acts, Quartering Acts, Tea Act, and etc., the British had placed on the colonists, the sense of patriotism becomes more common in all Americans. But the event of the Boston Massacre, which had troops of British soldiers fire upon a crowd of colonists, boosted the idea of freedom and furthered the

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    considered to be propaganda because it was especially of a biased, and was used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. The day of the Boston Massacre rose several questions about what happened and who was at fault. Paul Revere intentionally changed details about the Boston Massacre in order to influence the decisions of the Bostonians. The setting of the Boston Massacre was changed to mislead colonists. The engraving shows a clear sky, Butcher’s Hall and a lack of snow

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    COLONISTS POINT OF VIEW ON THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION The British were cruel, forceful, and just plain mean. Colonists asked the British for their rights, but no, the British would not give them their rights. Britain was a horrible country, and they didn’t listen to the Colonists, although they were usually right. Following the French and Indian War, King George the third wrote the surprising Proclamation of 1763. The Proclamation stated that the new western frontier that the colonists won actually

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    His ability to make relationships and acquire information made him the best person to take the role as initial adopter. The qualities of Paul Revere allowed him to initialize a complete cascade in his network of early American settlers during his “Midnight Ride”. The final connection between The Tipping Point and diffusion in relation to the Law of the Few deals with the importance of weak ties

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    Analytical Essay 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

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