happenings here in the colonies. Though, I believe it is finer to hear it from the other side of the story. Some colonists had dressed as Native Americans, preceding to enter the British ships. Our plan was to enter and get to the cargoes of tea and rid of them. That is just what we did. I watched with others from beyond the harbor, looking as the “Indians” poured the tea over the ships into the harbor waters. I knew that this could be the starting point of a mess amongst the colonies and Britain, but
Parliament passed the Stamp Act as way for the colonists to pay for some of the Seven Years’ War (Voices of Freedom, 84). This then enacted a response in the Virginia House of Burgesses whom then passed the following resolutions declaring: “…his Majesty’s colony, [the colonists shall have] all the privileges and immunities… possessed by the people of Great Britain [,]… [colonists] are declared and entitled to all privileges and immunities of natural born subjects,… taxation of the people by themselves, or
French and Indian War DBQ The French and Indian war was held in mainly North America, versus the French against the British and each side utilized the neighboring Native American to assist them. In 1754, George Washington led a militia of 150 Virginian men to the Ohio River Valley, where he was eventually defeated by the French but was allowed to retreat. George Washington learns from this humbling experience and later serves under English General Edward Braddock, Washington wrote him a letter in
DBQ: Colonial New England and Chesapeake Regions It is common knowledge among citizens of the United States that our country was first inhabited by Native Americans and later Europeans. More specifically, the English came to the New World throughout the 17th Century and settled along the eastern coast. The earliest English settlers established ground in Virginia in the Chesapeake region. Not too many years later, more people from England arrived in the Massachusetts Bay region and named that area
The Salem trials were unfair to the accused witches. In Rosalyn Schanzerś Witches! The absolutely True Tale of Disaster In Salem. In 1692 the Puritans set sail across the Atlantic Ocean to break away from the British to let their own religion flourish in The Americas. They are there for quite some time and got to the winter of their third or so year. But there were two girls(Betty and Abigail) who mysteriously get sick and thanks to their religion they think it is witches sent by the devil. To