John Dickson’s Arguments against Independence This document is a speech by John Dickinson to the Second Continental Congress about his hesitance about declaring independence. It was spoken on July 1, 1776 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during a meeting with the members of the Continental Congress. This speech becomes an important part of the Revolutionary War because of its explanation of all the disadvantages of declaring independence. Before this document, the colonists were rebelling against English rule. In 1773 was the dumping of tea in the Boston Harbor and in June of 1774 the Coercive Acts, also known as the Intolerable Acts, were created which frustrated the colonists.
This plan, however, backfired when the ships at the harbor were to have their tea goods sent to a warehouse where it was stored for three years. Finally having enough, about 200 colonists waited for on of the ships of taxed tea to arrive at the harbor, and some dressed like Indians, threw the tea into the harbor. While they hoped this would get their point about the taxes across to England, the Intolerable acts were passed, which ultimately resulted in the American Revolution
Boston Tea Party The Boston Party is considered to be one of the most brilliant acts of direct protest in history. During the Boston Tea Party at Boston Harbor and dumped over 90,000lbs of tea. The Boston Tea Party took place on December 16; 1773.Samuel Adams, John Adams, Paul Revere, John Hancock, and Thomas Young was all a part of the Boston Tea Party and had lots of influences on it. It was designed to revolt high taxes. It raised its prices and provided the India Company with ownership of the tea.
The end result was that Louis ended up spending 1,066 livres on the American Revolution, which he funded by taking out large loans at high interest rates. Instead of doing what is good for the country, Louis funded the American Revolution and put France is a serious financial catastrophe. He did not care though; he led a life of luxury while the peasantry starved and resorted to stealing bread or going hungry. Another mistake made by Louis was what is known as the Flight to Varennes. On October 5, 1789, a group of 7,000 poor Parisian women decided to march to Versailles in a mob and attack.
The American Revolution was a result of the colonists unrest caused by their abhorrence towards their British Mother Country. For several centuries the colonies had been subject to rule by the English Crown and it’s Parliament. They no longer wanted to be controlled by a country an ocean away, and in turn sought independence. A huge factor in the start of the American Revolution was the French and Indian War that changed the age-old bond between the colonies and England. Decades of conflict followed, starting with the revolt as a result of the Stamp Act in 1765, leading to the eruption of war in 1775.
The reason of this rebel was mainly due to the foreign attacks on Chinese territory in the late 19th Century. The Russians took land from Manchuria and Lushun; the British controlled Weihaiwei and made it even more extensive by taking out a 99-year lease in a peninsula in the North of Hong Kong. Germany took a port from the Shandong peninsula and even the French seized territory in the South. With foreign countries taking direct control of parts of China and with the Dynasty not doing anything to stop it, it sent humiliation through China and sparked a growing feeling of nationalism and spurred the idea of revolution. A revolutionary alliance was created and in the early 20th century, several attacks were made on the Qing Dynasty but were halted by the Qing army.
Despite China attempting to completely control trade with the west within its own boarders, the British maneuvered their way around this agreement by “sending their compradors inland with large stocks of opium that could be exchanged for upcountry tea or Soochow silk.” Around this time, the British were selling roughly 1,400 tons of opium to China per year, despite the sale and use of opium being illegal since 1731. This angered the Qing dynasty, because it was “proved beyond doubt that opium addiction in certain parts of the army had become so serious that the troops were incapable of combat.” By the 1830s the rapid growth of opium imports had reversed China’s balance of trade, producing an outflow of silver and severe currency problems.With their military becoming weaker by the day due to opium addicted soldiers, in 1838, the Emperor of China appointed a highly Confucian commissioner, Lin Zexu to control the opium trade at the port of Canton. His first decision as commissioner was to enforce the permanent halt of drug shipments to China. However, when the British refused, Lin blockaded the British traders in their factories and cut off their food supply. Outraged by the actions of the Chinese, the British sent a large
The Boston Tea Party The liberation of America was not based on one specific event, but the accumulation of many significant events that lead to the American Revolution. The Boston Tea Party was a political protest against the British government and East Indian Company that took place in Boston, Massachusetts on December 16, 1773. American patriots disguised themselves as a Native American tribe called the “Mohawk,” and boarded a ship belonging to the British East Indian Company, dumping 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. Many say it was an act of vandalism and disrespect, but in reality it was one of the many stepping-stones that led to the American Revolution. The event that started as a revolt against the tax policy on tea became an iconic event in American history and led to major tension between the Americans and Europeans.
Public buildings and houses were set on fire, there was more than £300,000 of damage and twelve people died. Of 102 people arrested and tried, 31 were sentenced to death. Lieutenant-Colonel Brereton, the commander of the army in Bristol, was court-martialed. | In Britain, King William IV lost popularity for standing in the way of reform. Eventually he agreed to create new Whig peers, and when the House of Lords heard this, they agreed to pass the Reform Act.
The Chinese imposed a death penalty upon any and all opium smugglers and sent a new governor, Lin Zexu to curb smuggling. This finally resulted in the First Opium War, eventually leading to the British seizure Hong Kong and opening of the Chinese market to British drug traffickers. After the 1857 uprising, commonly known to the British as the "Great Mutiny" and to Indians as the