Cassandra Rescoe 2/5/13 English 1520 James Halleman Alcohol and the American Colonists American history shows that our ancestors were heavy drinkers. Why did the colonists drink so much? To understand the logic of our ancestors heavy drinking‚ we think about colonial life. What drinking resources were available to them? What kind of life did they live? New England water was polluted and cow’s milk caused “sickness” (tuberculosis). New England had cold winters. What did they have to keep warm
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There are two popular views of the Boston Massacre‚ the pro-colonist view and the pro-British view. Neither of the views are entirely accurate‚ the true events of that night are found in the ‘middle ground’ of the accounts. No matter how truthful one account is believed to be‚ it is impossible for it to be entirely accurate because they couldn’t know the intent of the opposing side. The popular pro-colonist view is that the colonists were completely innocent and that the British officers attacked
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Before 1763‚ the colonists of America were doing completely fine underneath the rule of the British Empire. Throughout the years many events took place that started an ideological struggle over the concept of government within North American colonies. The Writs of Assistance‚ Proclamation Line of 1763‚ and the British Army were the events that set in motion the resistance. However‚ the events the actually carried out their independence were‚ the Stamp Act‚ the Townshend Crisis‚ the Tea Act‚ Lexington
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religion. Acknowledging this the colonist used the same perspective by justifying the color of skin and cultural to be secondary in order to debar the natives and blacks from whites. It wasn’t until colonial leaders‚ perceived religious faith‚ stating that no longer mistreatment would be allowed. These justifications would continue slavery in other parts of the world shaping the modern meaning of racism. Slavery was a huge economic contribution to the colonists‚ because they were used
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When the colonists settled America‚ many of them had different reasons‚ beliefs‚ and goals for themselves. For whatever the reason the North and South evolved into two distinct societies‚ because of social‚ political‚ and economic reasons. Social life changed both colonies dramatically. First off‚ you have the New England settlers‚ who came to the Americas because of religious persecution in England and surrounding areas. As seen in Document A‚ John Winthrop states‚ "We must knit together in this
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The New England Colonists highly valued religion and rules. Some well known colonists are the Pilgrims. The Pilgrims came to the New England Colonies for freedom of religion. They believed that the Church of England had gone to far beyond Christ’s teachings. There way of dealing with serious crimes was execution. The lesser crimes were handled with fines. There was one law on guns‚ if you did not bring a loaded gun to church you were fined 12 shillings. The church building itself had no significance
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There were many factors that the colonists made when picking a side‚ some of the colonist were force to choose sides‚ changed their minds or switched sides and pick a side that benefits them and their self-interest. The American allied with France since France lost like four wars to British‚ so they contributed and joined an alliance. I believe it was a personal motive which is why they alliance and negotiated deals. The patriots wanted to elect their own government and the loyalists are those who
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The time period of 1754-1763 eventually led the American colonists to realize that they did not need the British any longer. The colonists felt that they themselves‚ were not Englishmen but members of their own society within the American colonies. By winning the French and Indian war the British were entitled to the land east of the Mississippi River to the Appalachian Mountains. As the Americans began to move westward thinking that if they fought the war in the colonies‚ they were entitled to
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We the American colonists are not rebels. All the colonists wanted to do was have religious freedom so they left Britain to come to the Americas to start their colonies and have their own governments and have their own religions. They also got tired of the king taxing them without representation and saying to allow that British soldiers are to housed and taken care of by the colonists and that really set the colonists through the roof having to take care of someone they didn’t even know. We the
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------------------------------------------------- * ------------------------------------------------- * ------------------------------------------------- b. What kind of retreat would the colonists have had to make to be acceptable to Britain? * ------------------------------------------------- The “retreat” that the colonists would need to make would be for the
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