Olive Branch

The Olive Branch petition was a very well written document, however If I were the king I would not believe a single word of it. The colonist made their petition extremely persuasive, by referring to themselves as "loyal colonist" when really they were hiding in their fear by trying to avoid the subject of war. Basically the colonist attempted to use flattery and what was soon to become broken promises to get the king to appeal all of the acts, and begin to do things in the colonist's favor. If I was the queen, I would not believe this petition for a minute. I mean for starters, it's clear that sucking up was weaved into this entire piece of writing yet while they are praising the king their also informing him that war will begin. Really, the colonist somewhat contradict themselves in this piece, i mean how can you go to war against someone you are "completely loyal to and the leader to you mother country ?"

Boston Act's

Boston Massacre

I feel that Boston's colonists as well as the British soldier's acted disrespectfully. Seeing as the British soldiers were not welcome their to begin with, they acted rather rude in a place they didn't belong. However, the colonist acted very rowdy around the British soldiers, and acted with a violent nature. When going over the event of the Boston Massacre, it's easy to make the British seem at fault seeing as they killed and wounded innocent colonist. However, they were provoked by these innocent colonist, so really both neither party acted justified.

The Boston Tea Party

The Boston Tea Party in my opinion was one of the greatest acts in history. The Boston colonist fought for what they felt was right, however they fought with a cleaver and in an extremely sneaky matter. Seeing as what they did was peacefully and really completely harmless. Nothing was stolen, and anything broken was replaced soon after the event. Which in my opinion lead the Boston colonist's to act justified. Unlike the British colonist whom tried to get away with taxing tea but failed miserably and also got a slap in the face with it. What the British colonist assumed was that the the Boston colonists would fall for their trick of lowering the price of tea and leaving the tax on it. The British colonist thought that their idea was pure genius, I mean who wouldn't except a cheaper tea? Clearly Britain did not think their idea through seeing as Boston dumped 342 chest of tea into Boston Harbor.

The Intolerable Acts

The British colonist's I felt were basically embarrassed, which was what lead to the Intolerable Acts. The Boston Tea Party was a complete slap in the face for the all the citizens living in Britain so they felt that everyone was laughing at the which made them look weak. Obviously no colony wants to be seen as the weak colony so the British revolted with the Intolerable Acts which I felt was completely unjustified. The laws that the British enforced on the Boston colonist were completely ridiculous and unreasonable. Not only did these acts mess up the economy situation but resulted in ruining the Britain economy. Sure everyone should be punished for their actions, but not to that extreme.

News during French and Indain War

Throughout the French and Indian War, the newspaper was a device that helped to keep colonist in tune with what was going on in their surroundings. Without having the all important daily newspaper, no one would have any clue as to what was going on in their towns. Reading articles about the French and Indian War kept readers interested. Seeing as the war was taking place near their homes, as well as held most of the colonist's future's. The daily newspaper held a huge role in every colonist's life. Without the newspaper there would be hardly anything to talk about seeing as the newspaper was what kept the colonist in control of their information. The newspaper was held as valid sources of information for all the colonists. The newspaper let readers feel as if they were on the battle field themselves witnessing everything for themselves. Seeing as many of the readers were spouses to fighter in the war, this either eased the mind or petrified each reader. Thanks to the newspapers of that time period, each American citizen was in a way provided with their own personal information packet.