Thomas Paine's influence on colonists?
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I wrote a long essay about it \n\nhttp://www.jimmyr.com/Ruska.James.History1301.24312.CommonSense.rtf
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There are so many! I think I would have to go with George Washington.  Can you believe what he did with what others called an army of men with pitchforks? He was a good leader and because of that we were able to establish the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, and he was our first President.  He is one of our founding fathers.  That would be a great paper to write on because it can be about patriotism and that's what our country needs right now.  Let us know who you go with!
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maybe it has had more time to develop its ideas and ideals. it was one of the first colonies, and was the melting pot for the revolution
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If Paine's writings had been only political, he would have been held in honor as a bold and vigorous friend of human liberty. He was extraordinarily fertile in ideas, and broad-minded and progressive. He was in fact a great genius. His power of speech has always been admired. To him is to be traced the common saying, "These are the times that try men's souls," which is the opening sentence of the first number of The Crisis (which was printed in the Pennsylvania Journal,\nDecember 19, 1776). His pamphlet, Common Sense (January, 1776), was one of the memorable writings of the day, and helped the cause of Independence. His Rights of Man; being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution is a complete statement of republican principles. But it is as the author of The Age of Reason, an uncompromising attack on the Bible, that he is most widely known, indeed notorious. The first part of this work was handed by him, while on his way to prison in the Luxembourg, to his friend Joel Barlow, and appeared, London and Paris, March 1794; the second part, composed while in prison, December, 1795; the third was left in manuscript.
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Whole books about this stuff...In a nut shell...\nNatives and Africans fought on both sides of the Revolution to further their own interests.  Native Americans were the dominant military presence west of the Appalachian Mountains and they fought alongside the English.  They believed the English were their beat hope of keeping American settlers from pouring over the mountains and pushing them off their land.\n\nThere were many tribes, some traditional enemies, and that further complicated their response to the war between American Colonists and the English,\n  Africans and African Americans (remember, at this time the African slave trade was very much alive - not all African slaves were native born) fought for the colonies, and fought well, as free men and on behalf of their masters.  At one point, the British promised freedom to any male slave (and his family) if he escaped and joined the British Army.  Many did.  Others took advantage of masters and overseers' absence to escape from slavery.\n\nJust remember this - no group of people ever acted uniformly.  People act in their own interests.
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If you mean the founders in relation to the history of the country, I suggest you look @ \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States
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Housing ideologies of New England and Chesapeake Bay Colonies
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Here's a pretty good source from the horse's mouth...\nhttp://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/\n\nThen try: \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Quincy_Adams\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_madison\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Monroe\n\nGood Luck!
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History has judged Pierre-Esprit Radisson very harshly. He was never forgiven for leading England to the territories north of New France which helped weaken France's position in North America.\n\nThis is a direct quote, but it shold help you get started.
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There were several social classes of people in the early days of Maryland ranging from the gentlemen investors to the freeholders to the indentured servants and slaves. In the colony it was important for members of different social classes to work together to make the colony strong. This was something that would not have happened in England.\n\nThere was an indentured servant who was important in the beginnings of the colony of St. Mary's. He came from Barbados and was an indentured servants of the Jesuits.\n\nDo you know who he was?\n\nUnfortunately the fur trade was not as successful as Lord Baltimore's colony hoped it would be. The men at St. Mary's worked long and hard hours to plant tobacco and corn instead. Tobacco was the money crop of the Chesapeake region as the Virginians already knew. The colonists planted extra corn and shipped it to New England for sale.\n\nTo make a profit from their farming the planters had to use bound or unfree labor. These workers were call indentured servants. These servants could complete their service and receive freedom dues from their masters.\n\nIn the 1680's there was a depression of the tobacco market and prices fell. Small planters did not have the money to buy bound labor. By 1690 slaves began to replace bound workers but only wealthy planters could afford to buy slaves.\n\nCan you imagine why?\n\nA few Africans were in the colony and most of them came involuntarily. Thirteen Africans came to St. Mary's in 1642 and laws that would eventually affect the large number of slaves who came later were being worked out then. If a slave was baptized Christian he was given freedom. Because the planters didn't want to lose their slaves the Maryland Assembly passed a law in 1664 which said that baptism should not affect a slave's status.\n\nIn 1663 the Maryland Assembly ruled that all blacks that were brought into the colony should be slaves for life. The law even specified that the children of slaves should also serve as slaves for life.\n\nThis is by no means a complete description of the class system in Maryland. You are invited to select a subject within this topic and write about it for our pages. Please send your text to my address below.
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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/16801/effects_of_the_american_revolution.html\n\ngood luck!
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John Adams, Thomas Jefferson
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Well... Even though I think this was just posted by another uber-lib trying to take any crack at the administration that they can....\n\nWe know of at least 2 besides this recent accidental "shooting"... Aaron Burr, VP to Jefferson (The famous duel between Burr and Hamilton)... and Teddy Roosevelt (Not during his time as VP, but during his service time in military units)\n\nhard to get information on many of the older VP's on something like this. But we can probably assume more since the times in the earlier parts of US history had more people carrying around weaponry in places like the west. As well as others who may have served during the American Revolution etc....
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Capt. John Smith ... per following story\n\nJamestown settlers may have been poisoned \nBy Randall Chase, Associated Press writer\n\n RALEIGH, N.C. -- In what could be a macabre sequel to the Pocahontas story, a pathologist says many of the settlers who died at Jamestown may have been poisoned with arsenic -- perhaps by Capt. John Smith himself. \n Dr. Frank Hancock examined writings by Smith and other English settlers in Jamestown, Va., in search of a medical explanation for why so many colonists died within two years after the first permanent English settlement in America was established in 1607. His conclusion: Many of the colonists may been poisoned. \n "I continue to find what I consider circumstantial evidence that would lead one to believe that a plot may have been in place," said Hancock, medical director for Laboratory Corp. of America. \n While reluctant to name suspects, he said one settler wrote that Dutchmen in the colony had accused Smith of poisoning others with ratsbane, or arsenic trioxide. \n "There was an indication Smith was having disputes with the Dutchmen and others," Hancock said yesterday. \n He said he found no mention of possible motives, but there was no question the atmosphere at the colony was politically charged. \n In going through the writings of that period, Hancock found about 60 phrases that suggested symptoms of illness. \n "Out of that, I began to seek a common medical diagnosis," he said. \n He ruled out lead, cadmium and mercury, then settled on arsenic.
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Visit the following sites:\n\nAmerican Generals of the Revolution - \nhttp://www.americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/GENERALS.HTM\n\nBritish Generals of the Revolution - \nhttp://www.americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/BRITGEN.HTM
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Ethan Allen (yes, just like the furniture stores).\n\nFrom the Virtual Vermont website:\n"At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War (1775-1783) he led the expedition that captured Fort Ticonderoga in the first colonial victory of the war (notwithstanding the fact that he and the Boys basically knocked on the door, walked in and took over). He would soon thereafter attempt a badly planned, badly executed assault on Montreal which would result in his being imprisoned by the British and thus removed from further participation in the Revolution.\n"
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1778 - I think Thomas Jefferson started it