wife Pocahontas on the date of April 5th‚ 1614. Pocahontas was the daughter of a Native American Chief Powhatan of the Algonquin tribe. John Rolfe was an english settler and a local tobacco farmer. Because of this marriage the local natives and the english settlers had a “shaky” peace for multiple years. How John Rolfe Justified this marriage was by stating that it brought peace between the settlers and the Native Americans. Not only did he use that as a justification‚ but he justified marrying
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philosophers had used the authority of God to justify the power of a monarch‚ Locke used the authority of God to justify the value of the individual. Locke constantly referred to God in his writings‚ however‚ his writings are not reliant on being God based. Even in today’s secular society‚ Locke’s philosophy is still valid because Locke’s value of the individual are timeless. Locke figured out that left to his own devices man would tend to a perpetual state of conflict. It was Locke’s was goal to figure
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The decision of the British colonies to declare their Independence from Britain was long in the making and began to escalate directly after the end of the French and Indian War. After signing the Treaty of Paris‚ Britain was still facing the costly debt of the war and parliament made the decision that the colonists should help pay in the form of a number of taxes. This left the colonists feeling cheated as they failed to hold a single representative seat in Parliament and had no outlet to voice their
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placed upon their citizens in terms of government‚ helped shape the Greek culture. The Greeks change in politics from an Oligarchy to democracy. With the reliance on the average Greek citizen strengthened the Greek democracy. From the shift in power from the hoi polloi to average Greek citizen caused a shift in Greek culture. With the rise of democracy there was a greater responsibility placed on the average Greek citizen with this responsibility resulted in Greek civic value. Civic values were guidelines
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1381 (also known as Wat Tyler’s Rebellion) was caused by the imposition of the unpopular poll tax. In 1377‚ John of Gaunt imposed a new tax‚ the Poll Tax‚ that was to cover the cost of the war. Unlike normal taxes‚ this was to be paid by the peasants‚ as well as the landowners. The peasants were at the bottom of the Feudal System and had to obey their local lord to whom they had sworn an oath of obedience on the Bible.At the time of the revolt‚ the English population was dealing with effects from the
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Samuel Adams was born on September 27th 1722 in Boston in the British colony of Massachusetts. Samuel Adams was the son of Samuel Adams Sr. and Mary Adams. Samuel Adams family was Puritan and belonged to the Old South Congregational Church. After Graduating Harvard in 1740‚ he began earning his master’s degree. In his thesis he argued whether “It is lawful to resist the Supreme Magistrate‚ if the Commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved” to which he believed it was (Allen‚ 5). This clearly shows
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According to “Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World” by Jack Weatherford‚ it is no doubt that Europeans were influenced by Indians’ ideas. Especially‚ they knew much more about the concept of liberty. First of all‚ ideas about liberty of Native Americans are the premises of European Enlightenment. Early Europeans defined liberty as freedom of whole communities. They considered freedom as an intangible thing people can get after being released from the domination of
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi‚ also known as Mahatma‚ “The great-souled one”‚ was an Indian nationalist leader and architect of one of the most famous forms of civil disobedience‚ Satyagraha or more commonly known as non-violent passive resistance. Satyagraha had a large impact on the world and still remains as one of the most potent philosophies in freedom struggles throughout the world today. Gandhi spent some time as an Indian immigrant in South Africa and eventually moved back to India in the early
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Today‚ the United States is known as the land where people have the right to freedom‚ but around the 1800s‚ this was not the case. Slavery was a growing problem in Southern United States around this time‚ and until its eradication‚ slavery put the lives of many in danger. The brutal work that slaves were put through caused many deaths‚ and this horrific era in history will never be forgotten. After years of slavery‚ slaves began to resist by “doing poor work‚ breaking tools‚ abusing animals‚ and
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Bacon’s Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. The colony’s unconcerned policy as it related to the political challenges of its western frontier‚ along with other challenges including leaving Bacon out of his inner circle‚ refusing to allow Bacon to be a part of his trade with the Native Americans‚ and Doeg tribe Indian attacks‚ helped to motivate a popular uprising against Berkeley‚ who had failed to address
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