The Boston Tea Party As Samuel Adams once said‚ “It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate‚ tireless minority‚ keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.” Sam‚ the leader of the Sons of Liberty‚ proved himself correct with the influence in conducting such a prominent quest known as The Boston Tea Party. Adams achieved his goal in planting the idea of freedom into the colonists imaginative minds‚ by executing such a plot. Kull and others believe taxes defined as
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The Amritsar Massacre took place on April 13th 1919. It was committed by the British‚ who were colonized in India from the 1600’s to 1945. Before the Amritsar massacre‚ there was tension between Indian civilians and the British colonies for decades. This caused protests‚ mostly peaceful‚ throughout India. In March of 1919 the British passed the Rowlatt Act‚ invading the Indians privacy and decreasing their rights. On April 6th leaders of a peaceful protest against the Rowlatt Bill were arrested
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August in 1572‚ St. Bartholomew’s Day‚ was the beginning of a massacre that would eliminate a number protestants that no one knows. The St Bartholomew’s Massacre was not an intention of the Royal Court‚ it was an outcome of their choices. This Massacre will lead to a religious war and a rise in tension between the protestant and Catholics in France. The Bartholomew’s Day Massacre was a very interesting and complex event‚ the Massacre was an attempt to end religious turmoil but instead prolonged it
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What led to the Myall creek massacre? In late 1837‚ 4 white men were killed. The acting governor‚ Lieutenant Colonel Snodgrass sent Major James Nunn to the district to suppress the “outrageous acts”. From there 40 recruited stockman and rode around district‚ attacking and killing any aboriginals they could find. Meanwhile at the Myall Creek station‚ when they had heard about the slaughtering in the district‚ around 45 aborigines had been camped for a few months. They were offered protection and
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investigations in the year following the incident led to the arrest of one officer who was released after only serving three and one half years under house arrest. How did it happen that a massacre of such a great scale ended with little to no repercussions for those involved? Who was really to blame for the massacre: the men on the ground or the higher ups? I believe
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The My Lai massacre The My Lai massacre was a mass murder of innocent Vietnamese civilians. It is known as the worst atrocity of the Vietnam War. Lieutenant William Calley led the first platoon of Charlie Company during its service in the Quang Ngai province in Vietnam. The massacre took place in the hamlets of My Lai and My Khe of Son My village in South Vietnam (e.g. ‘Pinkville’). Before the My Lai massacre‚ the United States tactic was to kill ‘Viet Cong members’ until they gave up. Entire
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The Katyn Wood Massacre (1940) remains a topic of interest as it questions the motives behind the hidden agenda of the USSR. The truth behind the massacre was hidden for more than fifty years‚ while the USSR upheld the guise that the Germans were responsible for the massacre. It is theorized that both the USA and Great Britain were aware of the massacre at the hands of the USSR‚ however‚ they protected the USSR as she was an allied force and they needed her aid. This poses the question of whether
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In “The My Lai Massacre: A Military Crime of Obedience”‚ Herbert C. Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton argue that an average person feels justified in participating in massacres after three specific conditions are met: authorization‚ routinization‚ and dehumanization. The authors discuss this topic by referencing the specific incident that was the My Lai Massacre. Yet‚ while examining this specific incident‚ they are blinded by their academic mindset and manage to overlook that the event was not as black
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people were killed by police. This massacre occurred in Vigario Geral‚ one of the six hundred favelas in Rio de Janiero. It was as a result of four policemen being killed by local drug dealers‚ that this event came to be. To make matters worse‚ of the twenty one people that were killed‚ none were involved with drug trafficking. Two causes were the killings of the four policemen and the living conditions of the favela residents. Two consequences of the massacre were an increased sense of mistrust
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The Boston Molasses Disaster showcases what might be the weirdest way alcohol has created a train related accident‚ On January 15‚ 1919‚ a tank on a train that contained molasses that was meant to be for fermented to make industrial alcohol exploded‚ creating
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