.... between the colonists and British government over the Stamp Act is often considered one of the chief immediate causes of the American Revolution. The Boston Tea Party was a famous event that took place on December 16, 1773. The Boston Tea Party was when a group of Bostonians led by Samuel Adams, dressed up as Native Americans boarded the vessel carrying 342 chests of tea and them all overboard. The Boston Tea Party had many consequences. It led the way to more acts of violence by colonists, who continued to harass tea agents and to destroy cargoes and ships. The first Skirmis .....

.... 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 refused the General's request. "If England had the right to pass tax laws for them, it could pass any other sort of law it pleased"(Lancaster 07). The English Parliament later passed the Declaratory Ac .....

.... before midnight, she had eight fingers to go." This actual account from Marine Sniper by Charles Henderson is just one of the thousands of stories which is condemned to the small circle of s and the few that talk to or read the stories they so painfully tell. Never would you find a personal account of this magnitude and detail in your general history text or even find any quotes from the thousands of GI's stationed in Vietnam. In fact most Americans haven't and never will hear these detailed, factual, and straightforward tales that depict what over 400,000 American soldiers .....

.... that he could build a horse drawn carriage from the ground up. In the early 1900's a neighbor watched as Durant built these carriages and offered to buy it once he had finished. Durant was building that particular one for himself but promised to put his neighbor on a list and build him one next. His popularity grew and along with it so did his wealth. He became wealthy enough that in 1908 he began his own company and named it the General Motors. Instead of just making horse drawn carriages he started with a simple motor similar to that of Ford's creation along with a .....

.... exaggerated,” said Gale Research. All that hated it, also hated the famous radio station WINS. WINS, was the first radio station to broadcast rock and roll. They were only in it for the music. By the time WINS was part of the revival, the famous, unforgettable 1960's were there. For the next two decades, the United States did mot know what it was about to go though. It was going to go through drugs, war, and heartache. What helped this time of suffering, the rock. The youth looked to the music. It was not just in America, rock had gone worldwide. People had turned .....

.... bond slaves. The second level was to have statues of Moses and Saint Paul as well as symbolic figures of the active and contemplative life-representative of the human striving for, and reception of, knowledge. The third level, it is assumed, was to have an effigy of the deceased pope. The tomb of Pope Julius II was never finished. What was finished of the tomb represents a twenty-year span of frustrating delays and revised schemes. had hardly begun work on the pope’s tomb when Julius commanded him to fresco the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel to complete the work done in the p .....

.... been a second taping. Once he found the second one he decided to phone the Washington D.C. police. An undercover officer named Sergeant Paul Leeper and officers John Barret and Carl Shoffler intercepted the call while on patrol. Flashlights were noticed by a former F.B.I. agent. The F.B.I. agent named Alfred Baldwin calls and tells the police that there are lights on in the entire 8th floor of Watergate. So the three officers entered the building, surrounded the 8th floor partition, and in a few moments one intruder "Don't shoot-You've got us"! The intruders were then o .....

.... religion, or politics. The German, Russian, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman (Turkish) empires ruled over many different peoples and nationalities and often cruelly mistreated them. Until 1899, U.S. immigration officials asked arrivals which nation they had left, not their religion or ancestry. So oppressed people were listed under the countries from which they fled. Armenians who escaped from Turkey were recorded as Turks, and Jews who had been beaten by mobs in Russia were listed as Russians. This so called "new immigration" was different in many other ways .....