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    Johnny Tremain Analysis

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    Johnny Tremain is the orphaned apprentice of a silversmith in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1773, a time of tension and uncertainty. He is the nephew of a very wealthy and powerful merchant named Jonathan Lyte, but that is a secret only known to Mr. Lapham’s daughter Priscilla. Before his mother died, she entrusts him with her christening cup, which proves his relation to the Lyte family, but she warns him never to go to his uncle, unless “God Himself has forsaken you.” When Johnny breaks the Sabbath

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    massacre known as the incident on King Street by the British was an incident on March 5, 1770 in which the British Army soldiers killed five mill civilians and injured six others the incident was heavily propagandized by leading patriots such as Paul revere and Samuel Adams, do you fuel animosity toward the British authorities. British troops had been stationed in Boston, capital of the province of Massachusetts Bay, since 1768 in order to protect and support crown appointed Colonel officials attempting

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    However this is a crucial event in the early history of the United States. However a patriot known as Paul Revere used it as propaganda to encourage the thought of defining the British government. He created an etching of the Boston Massacre, showing the middle class of Boston, innocently gathering and being slaughtered by the British Soldier who were ordered

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    The Boston Tea Party had aroused fury in Britain. One British official said that the people of Boston “ought to be knocked about their ears.” King George III declared, “We must master them or totally leave them to them- selves and treat them as aliens.” Britain chose to “master” the colonies. In 1774, Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the Massachusetts colony and to serve as a warning to other colonies. The British called these laws the Coercive Acts, but they were so harsh that the

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    the seventeen-year old apprentice that's when the crowd went wild and started to fight with the British. The British soldiers had fired their guns. There were five colonists who were dead. The first man to be shot was an African American man. Paul Revere had seen what the British had done so he wrote a poster and called it the Bloody Massacre. After that had happened in Boston with the British soon after the other colonists heard about it as well.The British did not know that what they had done

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    to give them the ideals that they take for granted I plan to use this speech in my research to talk about ideas that America associates and bases itself off of, and how those ideas influence the lives of Americans. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. “Paul Revere 's Ride.” Poets.org, Academy of American Poets,

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    by a so called “mob”. The shootings took place right outside of The Old State House. Eight shooters were arrested, but soon after their trials it came down to only two of the six to be convicted of manslaughter. This led to colonial leaders like Paul Revere and Samuel Adams publicizing the event. The publicity was used to change the way colonists felt about the British authorities and in particular was used to help unite the colonies and spread the cause of Independance. As a result of the Boston Massacre

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    got up and went to the back of the tavern to the meeting room. It was there that John William saw Samuel Adams and John Hancock for the first time. The two had been hiding out in the town of Lexington for the past two weeks. They watched as Paul Revere relayed the message to the pair. After they finished their conversation Captain Parker walked back to the table that John William and Jasper were setting at and asked John William to gather all of the militia men in town and meet back at the tavern

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    Massacre was fueled by the abuse and isolation of the British soldiers and the civil disobedience of the colonial people that was substantiated by the feelings of their own lack of freedom. The event was used as propaganda by prominent people such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams to lead the colonies in a revolutionary uprising. On the evening of March 5th 1770, a dispute over an accusation of an unpaid bill to the wigmaker broke out between the wigmakers apprentice, Edward Garrick, and Private Hugh white

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    Lexington and Concord Begins American Revolution On an “unremarkably clear and pleasant” day in April 19, 1775, the shot that was said to had been able to be heard around the world was fired. (A Guide to Battles) This began the battles in which we know as Lexington and Concord, and the war we know as the Glorious/American revolution. It was fought between the British whom had feared American retaliation for some time, and the American Colonies whom were tired of feeling oppressed by the British

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