Maegan Forney Professor Laughlin History 347 8 October 2014 Patriot Father, Loyalist Son The American Revolution was a civil war described as “a struggle for independence from Great Brittian (71).” Throughout this war there were three groups of people; one was estimated one-third “loyalists’ which were those who remained in England and the other one-third were the “rebels” or known otherwise as the patriots and the last third were those who were neutral. This civil war against independence happened to sometimes divide families. The most known example of this is the separation between Benjamin Franklin and his son William. The reason for the separation has to do with the fact that Benjamin represented the patriot party while his son
When they won the French and Indian War, England had to make a few reforms. King George III declared the Proclamation of 1763, which forbid American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains in an effort the stabilize relations with the Native Americans. However this angered many colonists who had land grants there and in turn, the Proclamation Line was ignored. This was the start of a series of disagreements between the two lands, as the American citizens began to gain a stronger taste for independence. Enlightenment writers such as John Locke, who patented the idea that it
The French and Indian War, or the Seven Years’ war in Europe, had a negative impact on relations between the American colonies and Great Britain. The British forgot about the colonists’ role during the war. British troops in the colonies treated the colonists with cruelty, convincing the colonists that they would possibly be enslaved in the future by Britain. Although the colonists were original from Britain, they had different ideals and philosophies. After the war, Great Britain was in a large enough debt that it was able to destroy the English government.
The eighteenth-century wars, in which the Americans played a vital but subordinate role, pitted professional European armies against each other. The British suffered occasional defeats in these campaigns when they violated the rules of wilderness warfare, but the final decisive battles were won by European armies in direct confrontation with each other. Here the focus is on the American colonial soldier as part of the great British military establishment. Were the Americans simply inept, argumentative, unreliable, pale shadows of the Redcoat ideal, or did
“There is either obedience or the church will burn like Hell is burning!” (pg 30) Parris tried to defend himself with such passionate and heartfelt comments but Proctor would have none of it. To him Parris was not in his society. Also, his relationship with Abigail Williams was a strained one, plagued with affair, scandal, and betrayal. He did love her, but soon after seeing what she truly was he resented his connection to her and, like what his old true nature told him, he confessed, causing a resent to appear within the town that never gave him his old trust
Luther wrote the “95 Theses” because he saw that the church was doing wrong and he decided that it should be changed. But King Henry VIII only formed the Church of England only to divorce his wife so he could have a son. One man fought for he thought was right and the other did out of selfishness. Even though many man and women do things like they mean well their motives may say otherwise. They could it out of love the need to be free or they could do it out of hate selfishness witch doesn’t make it
Similarly, a statue of the king was burned before a large crowd in Baltimore, amidst cheers and acclamation (Jasanoff, 44). James Hubard, a patriot who initially supported the revolution, was appalled by the direction the revolution was taking. He began to have doubts about the direction the protests were taking and refused to take the oath of allegiance to Virginia. As a consequence, he was imprisoned briefly, his successful law practice was destroyed, and his family reduced substantially in circumstance, forcing them to flee to New York (Kelly). He longed for peace and a just system of law above all else.
The Battles of Lexington and Concord in the spring of 1775 marked the beginning of open hostilities between the Colonies and Britain. These battles were the culmination of difficulties between England and the American colonies. The Colonists were fighting against the economic exploitation and political oppression of Parliament. The root cause of the revolution was the fact that Britain refused to believe that the colonies had outgrown, both economically and psychologically, their former status. Many, many things caused the revolution.
264) for the rebel troops, despite the British hopes that the imprisonment of their former comrade and the man they regarded as the colonists' premier military man would bring the war to an end. Another similarity to the Civil War is the occasional mention of hopes for a decisive battle or short war, on both sides; like the later war, however, both would be disappointed in the failure of that wish to come true. One small change I may have liked in this book would have been a short prologue, with some information on what happened to some of the characters of this story in later years, men such as Howe, Greene and Henry Knox, but that's a small quibble and, perhaps, simply a subject for which I need to find other reading. The ability of McCullough to make the reader feel greatly informed yet hungry for more is impressive, I must
Ball proclaimed, “in my blood runs the same hot hatred of treason’s emblem that sent my father forth in defense of the Nation’s honor” (Janney 234). The position the women were placed in as the dependent of the man at war caused their memory to favor with the memory of their protector. The women recalled the war similar if not the same as their