.... freedom from Britain. The French and Indian war left the British government in debt. Lord George Grenville came up with a tax program to pay for the war. The Sugar Act, passed in 1764, increased taxes on imported goods. The Currency Act took the right to issue their own money away from the Colonist. This enraged the industrial and agricultural colonists. Britain took it too far when it passed the Quartering Act. The act gave British troops the right to stay at any colonist house. Colonist where not only to house the troops, but provide food as well. British General Thomas Gage asked the New York assembly to convince colonists to agree to these terms. The assembly r ....

.... Crash was the start, and the United States would not be in a better state until the demands of the second world war. For more than ten years, the American people faced a condition in which they had no clue on how to face, or how to fix it. The responsibility for solving this crisis was greatly on the President. He, who had saved European countries from starvation during the Great War of 1913 through 1918, proved that he could not fix this new crisis. In fact, from 1929 through 1932, the economy went from bad to worse. Unemployment approached 20 percent. Black Unemployment hit 50 percent. Private construction investment went from $6.6 billion in 1929 to $1.3 billion in 1932 ....

.... Leadville, Charles Dow left the frontier for the nation's financial hub, New York City. He found a job at the Kiernan News Agency, a service that distributed handwritten business news to banks and brokers, where he met two fellow financial reporters, Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser. In 1882, the three jumped ship to form a publishing venture of their own. Poor Bergstresser. Not only did he bankroll Dow Jones & Company with the savings he'd acquired by working his way through college, but he also gave the company's publication, a daily two-page financial news bulletin called the Customer's Afternoon Letter, a more lasting appellation: The Wall Street Journal. But "Ber ....

.... and a representative government unlike the one of Britain. The modern day federalism that is applied today is structured like that of the Connecticut federalism. A general court in Hartford acts like a central meeting place like that of present day Washington D.C.. This General court has the ability to rule over the towns of Connecticut, but the locals of a town may provide input to their public officer and he can provide the central court with this information. The general court is not to be mistaken as an absolute rule. An example is found in section 11 of the Fundamental Orders. The general court may distribute funding to the towns, and they may distribute them as th ....

.... three of the murders affected the sons of the deceased in the same way; it enraged them. For people during this time, revenging the murder of one’s father was part of one's honor and had to be done. All three of the sons swore vengeance and then acted towards getting revenge for the deaths of their fathers. Because of all of this, revenge is a major theme in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Fortinbras took his revenge out in a proper way and rose to power in the end. Both Laertes and Hamlet, however, used force to accomplish their revenge. The lack of thought used in exacting their revenge led to the deaths of both Laertes and Hamlet. When Laertes found out about his father's de ....

.... It is seen in their words, both private and public, uncovered in their proslavery diatribes, and understandable in their humanity. Before this discussion of guilt in slaveholders begins, it is necessary to first define how we will define guilt. Certainly if a man says he is guilt-stricken with conviction we can take this as adequate evidence of guilt. However, certainly not everyone takes this direct an approach. James Oakes makes a good point in recognizing that guilt is not always starkly obvious. "Guilt is the product of a deeply rooted psychological ambivalence that impels the individual to behave in ways that violate fundamental norms even as they fulfill basic desir ....

.... had an address book with the name and phone number of a White House official who could have been involved in the crime. The reporters suspected that the break-in had been ordered by other White House officials. In a press conference on August in 1972, President Nixon said that nobody on the White House Staff was involved in the crime. Most of the public accepted Nixon's word and dropped the questioning. But when the burglars went to trial four months later, the story changed rapidly from a small story to a national scandal. It ended only when Richard Nixon was forced from office. Watergate was connected to Vietnam, it eventually exposed a long series of illegal activities ....

.... direct the third element of the attack. According to the plan, Howe would direct General Henry Clinton to move northward along the Hudson River and link up with Burgoyne in Albany. The goal of this plan was to isolate and destroy the Continental forces of New England. Initially, the British plan appeared to be working. Burgoyne's army continually pushed back the Americans southward along the Hudson River with only minor casualties. In an attempt to slow the British advances, the American General Philip Schuyler detached 1000 men under the command of Major General Benedict Arnold. This force moved west to thwart St. Leger's eastward advance along the Mohawk River. Arnold re ....