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The main cause of the Revolutionary War was the passing of the stamp act because after the passing  a  effigy of the city's stamp collector which made it worse.  When the official failed to resign his position immediately, the mob demolished the stamp collector's warehouse at the city dock, tearing it apart board by board. The crowd then beheaded the effigy and stamped it to pieces. After giving the stamp collector time to flee, they ransacked Oliver's house, shattering the windows and smashing the furniture. Three days later, a second house was wrecked in Newport, Rhode Island, after the local stamp distributor failed to resign.  This protest spread and caused other countries protesters to become more violent.  The protests and disorder that broke out in the American colonies in 1765 marked the beginning not only of the American struggle for independence, but of over half a century of popular protest, revolution, and war across the western world. From the Ural ...

https://www.scseagrant.org/carolinas-gold-coast-the-culture-of-rice-and-slavery/ This article talks about the Southern States and how they wanted to  established a feudal society in their land grant. It talks about how t hey kept huge landed estates for themselves, and, with the assistance of the English philosopher John Locke, drew up a plan, known as the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, which would have given them the power of feudal lords. The scheme called for a three-tiered hereditary nobility consisting of proprietors, land graves, and caciques who would own forty percent of the colony's land and serve as a Council of Lords and recommend all laws to a parliament elected by small landowners. But like other feudal visions, this one failed. South Carolina's settlers rejected virtually all of this plan and immigrants refused to move to the region until it was replaced by a more democratic system of government.  Emigrants from Barbados played a decisive role in Sou...

This reading talks about when the English people begin to colonize in North America and what they did once they got here.  During the early and mid-sixteenth century, the English tended to conceive of North America as a base for piracy and harassment of the Spanish. But by the end of the century, the English began to think more seriously about North America as a place to colonize: as a market for English goods and a source of raw materials and commodities such as furs. English promoters claimed that New World colonization offered England many advantages. Not only would it serve as a bulwark against Catholic Spain, it would supply England with raw materials and provide a market for finished products. America would also provide a place to send the English poor and ensure that they would contribute to the nation's wealth.  During the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the English poor increased rapidly in number. As a result of the enclosure of traditional common lan...

The purpose of the Slavery and Spanish Colonization is to talk about how they redeveloped slavery in America with the Native Americans and Africans.  Christopher Columbus believed that Indians would serve as a slave labor force for Europeans, especially on the sugar cane plantations off the western coast of North Africa. Convinced that the Taino Indians of the Caribbean would make ideal slaves, he transported 500 to Spain in 1495. Some 200 died during the overseas voyage. Thus Columbus initiated the African slave trade, which originally moved from the New World to the Old, rather than the reverse. By the beginning of the sixteenth century, Spain's experiments in enslaving Indians were failing. To meet the mounting demand for labor in mining and agriculture, the Spanish began to exploit a new labor force: slaves from western Africa. Slavery was a familiar institution to many sixteenth-century Europeans. Although slavery had gradually died out in northwestern Europe it continued t...

The purpose of this text is to talk about the anniversary of Christopher Columbus and what happened years after he came how he impacted the South and should we really celebrate him as someone finding “new land” and bringing European diets food and culture or should we talk about him killing population with diseases in America.  Columbus's first voyage of discovery was treated quite differently. Many peoples of indigenous and African descent identified Columbus with imperialism, colonialism, and conquest. The National Council of Churches adopted a resolution calling October 12th a day of mourning for millions of indigenous people who died as a result of European colonization. More than five hundred years after the first Spaniards arrived in the Caribbean, historians and the general public still debate Columbus's legacy. Should he be remembered as a great discoverer who brought European culture to a previously unknown world? Or should he be condemned as a man responsible for an...

The First Americans I am going to talk about the First Americans in which the North American Indians consisted of small migratory bands that were used for hunting, fishing and etc. Native Americans were rich and sophisticated. During the thousands of years preceding European contact, the Native American people developed inventive and creative cultures. They prepared plants for food, dyes, medicines, and textiles. They also domesticated animals, established patterns of trade, built cities, built monumental architecture, developed systems of religious beliefs, and lastly created systems of social and political organization ranging from kin bands and tribes to city states and confederations. Native Americans not only had to change to diverse and demanding environments, they also changed the natural environments to meet their needs. Once the arrival of Europeans in the New World, the Native Americans struggled intently to preserve the essentials of their diverse cultures while adapting...