bad conditions I still want to help. George Washington read the army a motivational talk that influenced me to stay. I enlisted in the continental army because I want freedom. My cousin told me about his experience in the Boston Tea Party. He told me how he threw all the tea into the harbor. Altho it was a surprise to me that when I decided to enlist for the army I was sent to Pennsylvania and froze nearly half to death. The time I spent there was treacherous‚ there were terrible sights. There were
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Minutemen and Battle of Lexington and Concord (April‚ 19‚ 1775) Revolution Begins: I have only heard of General Gage twice. We heard he was in Massachusetts as a Commander of British Northern Soldiers. The Tea Party Act‚ and the Suspension of Boston trade‚ was a huge setback to majority of the people who lived and depend on it especially our neighborhood. I walked to the city streets everyday and it was deserted‚ since there have been British troops been hostile to colonialists and subsequent killings
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The Boston Tea Party affair followed which was as a result and in opposition to the Tea Act. The American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence was the inevitable conclusion to the laws and taxes imposed by the British on the American colonies - which had been fuelled by their attempt to
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Founding Fathers Paper Throughout United States’ history‚ many great and skillful individuals single handedly changed the direction of our nation’s fate. Individuals such as George Washington‚ Franklin D. Roosevelt‚ Martin Luther King Junior‚ and John F. Kennedy are people who are remembered the most frequently. There are however individuals who established a country to begin with for others to help lead and guide‚ yet somehow they are the most forgotten. There’s one unsung hero‚ who most most
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which had all of the acts and laws restricting colonists to do certain things during that time. The second group was the "big events group" which had all of the major events that the British did when controlling the colonists like the Boston Tea Party or the Boston Massacre. The final group was the "map‚ charts‚ etc. group" which had the charts or
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The American Revolution was fuelled by both ideas and money. Firstly‚ the Colonists did not like the idea of being constantly harassed and taxed. Secondly‚ the British were placing too many enforced high taxes and acts that caused financial depression to the Colonists. Lastly‚ more rules and taxes were being laid out and the voice of the Colonists were being completely ignored. Therefore‚ colonists believed that both money and ideas were valid enough reasons to spark a revolutionary war.
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the British there were riots‚ so British royal troops were stationed in Boston in 1768. On March 5‚ 1770 a fight between armed troops and citizens broke out and left 5 dead which was called the Boston Massacre. A few factors that imposed some of these taxes were things such as Britain being in debt from the seven year war. They saw it fit that the colonies pay taxes to the mother country for all that was offered. The tea act also created a lot of resistance because colonists believed to pay the
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not treated equally‚ or taken for granted. That’s when someone puts their foot down and a revolt is started. In the American revolution the thirteen colonies over through the British government. They did so with key events and battles‚ like the Boston
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One thing all Americans have in common is diversity. Having diversity causes Americans to work together and form a bond and treat everyone as they would like to be treated. We also have our freedom in common. Everyone has rights of speech‚ religion‚ press‚ etc. so everyone can define who they are and who we will become. Everyone has different ideas as to what being an American means‚ but to me it means that we have individuality‚ that we take pride on our country‚ and that we can be opportunists
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Before the Seven Year’s War broke out‚ between the early 1740s and 1750s‚ a widespread Christianity revival movement in the colonies known as the “Great Awakening” introduced to the Americans the right to freely choose their own religious association and also stimulated a social reform. It had altered the mindsight of the Americans by giving them the freedom to choose what to believe and what religious practices to follow. It was the very first step they had to making their own choices‚ united together
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