What if the Boston tea party never happened?
the Boston Tea Party should not have happened. Really it was about about John Hancock's smuggling profits being undercut by the East India Tea Company...
Two thousand people stood on Griffin’s Wharf and watched the Boston Tea Party. The crowd was silent as sixty men dumped 340 chests of tea into the salt water. Some of them put lampblack or paint on their faces. Some came wrapped in blankets. They called themselves “Mohawks”. It took three hours and all done in silence and order. No damage was done to the ships. The crews of the tea ships were ordered below. No resistance was made. Some of the crew even helped unload the tea. The decks were swept clean. No “Mohawk” would keep any of the tea. and they were drunk. The significance of this moment showed that the Boston people were mad about being taxed on the tea. i they did like it at all. one change to history would be if the Mohawks weren't drunk. If they were sober then they would of thought more rationally about there consequence. If they didn't do this they would have kept taxing the Boston people. also if they didn't do this they would have gotten even more mad and could have done something way worse then that. the significance of the change in history is that they came up with the acts.
this event is important today because it showed that we had taxes back then. if they didn't have the Boston tea party then today taxes would be even higher then they already are. they significance of event to day is that is showed that back then the commoners had a say.
Jun 12, 2008
Essay 1
George Washington lived sixty-seven years, from 1732 to 1799. During his last twenty-four years—more than a third of his life—he was the foremost man in America, the man on whom the fate of his country depended more than on any other man. And these were fateful years. From 1775 to 1783—the years of the American War of Independence—Washington was Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army upon whose victory the thirteen colonies depended to secure their separate and equal station among the powers of the earth.
George Washington is called "the father of his country" for his crucial role in fighting for, creating and leading the United States of America in its earliest days. Washington was a surveyor, farmer and soldier who rose to command the Colonial forces in the Revolutionary War. He held the ragtag Continental Army together -- most famously during a frigid encampment at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania during the winter of 1777-78 -- and eventually led them to victory over the British. His success in the war made him a tremendously popular figure in America even after he retired to his farm at Mount Vernon in 1783. He was the natural choice to serve as the country's first president in 1789 after the new United States Constitution was ratified.
When he was a young officer in the Virginia Militia, he made a big mistake.The French were encroaching on the English territories, now the US, from Canada. They built a fort at present day Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. George Washington was sent out on a Reconnaissance mission to check out the fort. He had a Delaware Indian guide named "Halfking".On their way to the fort, they ran into some French soldiers and Washington ordered an attack. They captured a French Officer who was delivering a letter to the British at Williamsburg. Halfking killed him.To make matters worse, some of the French got away and made it back to the fort and the French and Indians went after Washington and his troops.
Washington decided to make a stand and built a small fort.It was a poor excuse for a fort though and to make matters worse, it was in a valley. The French could shoot down on the Virginians from the hills. It started raining and the valley flooded, to include the fort. George Washington had to surrender. He didn't read French and so didn't know that he signed a document ceding the land west of the appalachian mountains to the French. This started a war that lasted seven years with the French and the Indians.
George Washington is called "the father of his country" for his crucial role in fighting for, creating and leading the United States of America in its earliest days. Washington was a surveyor, farmer and soldier who rose to command the Colonial forces in the Revolutionary War. He held the ragtag Continental Army together -- most famously during a frigid encampment at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania during the winter of 1777-78 -- and eventually led them to victory over the British. His success in the war made him a tremendously popular figure in America even after he retired to his farm at Mount Vernon in 1783. He was the natural choice to serve as the country's first president in 1789 after the new United States Constitution was ratified.
When he was a young officer in the Virginia Militia, he made a big mistake.The French were encroaching on the English territories, now the US, from Canada. They built a fort at present day Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. George Washington was sent out on a Reconnaissance mission to check out the fort. He had a Delaware Indian guide named "Halfking".On their way to the fort, they ran into some French soldiers and Washington ordered an attack. They captured a French Officer who was delivering a letter to the British at Williamsburg. Halfking killed him.To make matters worse, some of the French got away and made it back to the fort and the French and Indians went after Washington and his troops.
Washington decided to make a stand and built a small fort.It was a poor excuse for a fort though and to make matters worse, it was in a valley. The French could shoot down on the Virginians from the hills. It started raining and the valley flooded, to include the fort. George Washington had to surrender. He didn't read French and so didn't know that he signed a document ceding the land west of the appalachian mountains to the French. This started a war that lasted seven years with the French and the Indians.
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