On December 16‚ 1773 a group of men from the Massachusetts colony had boarded three British tea ship as Mohawk Indians. They were protesting the taxes that the British had put in place on tea and had dumped 342 chests of tea in the harbor. The Boston Tea Party lead to the Revolutionary War by upsetting the Colonists due to the unfair taxation‚ overbearing British rule and the overgrowing differences between American and British beliefs. After the French and Indian war King George III and British
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out of their homes. Once troops arrived in the colonies‚ riots became‚ "an almost regular feature of life" (Becker‚ Wheeler 77). The Boston Massacre occurred on March 5‚ 1770‚ when hostility between the Americans and British had reached its breaking point. During a riot in the town square‚ British troops fired into a crowd of civilians‚ killing five men. The Boston Massacre was caused by tensions in the American people that had built up as a result of an increasing sense of patriotism‚ pains brought
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11 Recently Extinct Animals Photographs Here is a list of 11 extinct animals that were photographed while still alive. Includes the Tasmanian Tigers‚ Quagga‚ Passenger Pigeon‚ Golden Toad‚ Caribbean Monk Seal‚ Pyrenean Ibex‚ Bubal Hartebeest‚ Javan Tiger‚ Tecopa Pupfish‚ Syrian Wild Ass& the Baiji River Dolphin. The current rate of extinction is 100 to 1000 times higher than the average‚ or background rate‚ making our current period the 6th major mass extinction in the planet’s history! Tasmanian
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responses to acts of resistance in the peripheries. W.A. Speck mentions some British politicians believed duty on Tea was ‘a symbol of parliamentary sovereignty over the colonies’ (Speck‚ 2015‚ p.32). It could be argued the reprisal policies following The Boston Massacre demonstrate the metropole believed they had a right to exercise they perceived superiority‚ as they considered the peoples in the peripheries as children. Measures such as the The Quartering Act could be seen as the metropole exercising
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Montgomery to the ground. He stood up and fired into the crowd and several other shots followed. The event is known today as the Boston Massacre. Clearly these happenings occurred so quickly that it is hard for historians to see which side was responsible. However‚ the Boston Massacre was the fault of the British because they made the decision to station troops in Boston‚ they failed to remove the troops despite the rising tensions between the soldiers and the colonists‚ they fired into the crowd
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happened in the Boston Massacre. It all started in Boston one fateful day. The British came to Boston and the people of Boston were not happy about it. By examining the boston massacre and the causes of it‚ It is clear that this was an important part in the revolutionary war. the Boston Massacre was that many of the colonist were upset by the fact that they had to share a house with a british soldier. This was called the quartering act. This was a start up leading to the Boston Massacre.Eventually
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April 18 marked the 120th running of the famed Boston Marathon. Without question‚ the 26.2-mile race is the pinnacle of achievement for runners of all skill levels and abilities. This year‚ some 30‚000 men and women participated and many of whom ran the iconic race for the first time. Hundreds of marathons that take place each year‚ from races with only a couple of hundred participants to the New York City Marathon that boasts nearly 52‚000 runners. However‚ for those runners lucky enough to qualify
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Boston Bombing & Patriot Act In the early afternoon of April 15th during the 117th Annual Boston Marathon‚ two bombs were detonated and exploded‚ killing 3 people and injuring 183 others. The bombs had been placed near the finish line‚ along Boylston Street. The bombs‚ which were pressure cooker devices detonated at 2:49 p.m‚ 13 seconds apart. No warnings had been given‚ and no one has been arrested or claimed responsibility for the bombing.(Bacon) The FBI have found two suspects that are responsible
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disobedience. On December 17‚ 1763 a group calling themselves “The Sons of Liberty” boarded three British tea ships and dumped the economic equivalent of $1.7million of tea into Boston Harbor. The “Boston Tea Party‚” was in protest of the Tea Act of 1773‚ a bill many colonists viewed as taxation tyranny. Consequently‚ Parliament closed Boston to merchant shipping and established military rule in Massachusetts. When our forebearers responded by calling the first Continental Congress‚ our fledgling nation was
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The Boston Marathon Bombing: Working Through the Surveillant Assemblage Introduction The tragic bombing of the Boston Marathon captivated national and international audiences alike. Hundreds of local‚ state and federal agencies came together to undertake the massive investigation that would ensue. Surveillance technologies played an integral role in the investigation‚ and became headline news as we watched the events unfold in real time. As the five-day manhunt progressed‚ there was a coming together
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