Joshua Meadows
Nathaniel Widener
HIS 131.05E
22 September 2014
How did the Paleo-Indians populate the Americas? The earliest Americans, called Paleo-Indians by archeologists, were the first people to settle America (Boyer 3). It is the popular belief among most archeologists that the Paleo-Indians had spread to most of North America by 13,000 B.C.E. From there, different groups of them migrated south into Mesoamerica and South America (Boyer 1). While the immigration of the Paleo-Indians happened at various times and for various reasons, the populating of the Americas happened because people arrived from northeastern Asia, then interrelated with other bands and tribes, and migrated toward certain desired environments or climates. The first …show more content…
The purpose of these various taxes were to pay for “defending, protecting, and securing” the colonies (Boyer 134). The first major tax in America was the Stamp Act. The Act required the purchase of specially stamped paper for any type of legal forms, licenses, documents, or newspapers. This was especially maddening to the colonists because nearly everyone was affected by it (Boyer 135). So much so that, in 1765, a Stamp Act Congress was formed that represented nine of the thirteen colonies. It was decided that Parliament was overstepping its’ bounds in issuing the Stamp Act and the colonies began boycotting British goods. The colonists got what they wanted when Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in 1766 (Boyer 138). In the wake of the Stamp Act and the events surrounding it, many people turned to enlightenment thinkers and religion for answers which ultimately led them to rethink the imperial relationship between the colonies and Britain (Boyer 139). As time went on and tensions grew, Parliament started to tighten its grip on the colonies. When the Tea Act was passed in 1773, it required that the colonists only buy British tea that was low quality and over-priced. The colonists refused to buy any of it and it remained on the ships of various North American (Boyer 151). A group of colonists took it a step further when they snuck onto the ships in the Boston harbor and dumped …show more content…
It was called Common Sense and was just that. The fundamental argument Paine was trying to get across was that monarch was a threat to liberty and not for Americans (Boyer 156). It was so influential in unifying the colonies that the Continental Congress called for a committee to draft the Declaration of Independence not long after its release (Boyer 157). This was the moment that all the past years of British rule were leading up to. With the eventual support of all thirteen colonies in 1776, America officially declared its’ independence from Great