Between the years of 1763 and 1776 many acts and new laws were passed by the King of England and Parliment, which angered the colonists, enough to actually pull away from their founding country. The first in a series of direct and immediate events within these years, which eventually destroyed the ...

After decades of religous persecution, corruption of church and government Britains people were very intrigued with the idea of a new settlement. The new settlement they had heard about offered a freedom not available to them in Britain. It was not going to be easy but these people saw a chance ...

The American Revolutionary War is the most important historic event in the United States. Many groups of people were affected by this war, and one of then was the Native Americans. The American Revolution was not a revolution for the Indians because they were constantly losing land to the white men ...

The American Revolution was by far the most important war in the history of the United States. The war gave the original 13 colonies their freedom from Great Britain and started a new country, the United States of America. Three leading causes of the American Revolution are new Enlightenment ideas, ...

COLONIZATION & REVOLUTIONARY WAR--IDENTIFICATIONS BACON'S REBELLION: 1676 - Nathaniel Bacon, a member of the 'back county gentry' and the governor's council in Jamestown, VA. On two separate occasions, Bacon led his army to Jamestown after an ongoing conflict with the Indian...

Massachusetts is one of the original 13 colonies, laying claim to the Pilgrim's landing and the Boston Tea Party, as well as the first battles of the Revolutionary War--Lexington and Concord. Native Americans were living in Massachusetts long before Europeans arrived, and among them were the Wampan...

By the 17th century, British citizens, for economic reasons or for religious oppression, flocked toward the New World to begin a community that honored their natural laws. Some flocked towards present day New England in order to obtain religious freedom while others left for the Chesapeake Bay to re...

Jay was born on December 12, 1745 to one of New York's most influential families. Self-confident, he was marked from the beginning as a person of uncommon intellectual ability. He graduated from King's College (now Columbia University) in 1764 and was admitted to the New York bar four years later. I...

The American Revolution was largely economic and political in nature. The political reasons were that England neglected the colonies, taxation without representation and limitation of individual rights and privacy. Then there was the most important side the economic. There was trade restriction, m...

The American colonist were unquestionably right in waging war and breaking away from their mother country Britain. The conflicts that occurred between the two justified that Britain's intentions and interests were self-centered and were meant to be much more beneficial to the English. Parliament w...

American Philosophy in the eighteenth century was divided into two halves. The first heavily influenced by the Calvinism of the Puritans, the second more directly along the lines of the European Enlightenment and associated with the political philosophy of the Founding Fathers (Thomas Jefferson, B...