Winning Essays
Topic: Reading
Helps Us to Learn
By Quinlin Holmes
Hello reader, audience, or inspector. In the past I have read about
the Boston Tea Party and the French and Indian War. It started when
Britain and France had a lot of tension between each other because
Britain just fought against France and their allies; an ally is one
common person helps reach a common goal. Some soldiers from the
thirteen colonies helped Britain fight the war.
The
man that lead them was William Johnson, who owned a large farm on New
York’s Mohawk River. Another man named Hendrick, an Iroquois leader,
also helped the British fight the war. After several years or more of
battling it finally ended.
Now, I will be introducing and talking about the Boston Tea Party. The
Boston Tea Party started when the colonists didn’t want to pay tax for
things that come on boats, such as paper, clothes, glass and tea. So
one night the coloniss dressed up like Indians and went to the boats and
threw all the tea off the boats. If you were less fortunate and you had
to pay tax for little things, what would you do? Ponder that for a
while.
After the Boston Tea Party, the American Revolution began. The British
sent in more soldiers to the thirteen colonies to follow all of the
British laws but they refused and said no to them. A lot of colonists
joined the volunteer armies so if there was an emergency they could help
or go into the battlefield. On April nineteenth seventeen seventy-five,
the volunteer soldiers were finally put into work. They had to go to
Massachusetts. They had to get seven hundred soldiers to reach their
goal; that goal was to go take the weapons the colonists had been
storing in Concord, a town near Boston.
The American Revolution started when the thirteen colonies fought
against Great Britain for their freedom and the colonist who supported
freedom from Britain they were known as Patriots. Those who remained
loyal to the British government were called Loyalists.
This is my writing project about the American Revolution Patriots and
the Loyalist and the Boston Tea Party. From this I learned about the
struggle my country went through to free from Britain.
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