Christopher Columbus: The Boston Massacre

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1) Christopher Columbus: Columbus was born in 1451 son of wool merchant. During 15th and 16th centuries European nations started Age of Discovery for great wealth and undiscovered lands. At the end of 15th centuries it was impossible to reach Asia from Europe by land because route was long and dangerous. Columbus decided why not sail west across the Atlantic instead of around the Africa. Columbus made a deal with Spanish monarch Isabela and Ferdinand that Columbus can keep 10 percent of fortunate of what he found and govern ship and title of land will belong to him rest will be of both monarchs The navigator math was wrong so they end up in America which he did not discover because there were already Native Americans living there. He was also …show more content…
Captain Thomas Preston put his man in front of his building to protect it, however because of fight one of his soldier was knocked out and in return British soldiers fired into people in public which killed five people. As a result, there was confusion and panic between local residence and leaders which turned in “Boston Massacre”. It was the most shocking and inaccurate event that spread widely “Pamphlet Innocent Blood crying to God from the streets of Boston (Brinkley 96). It was massacre which happen on innocent people. Person who outrage the situation was Samuel Adams, Adams proposed “Committee of Correspondence” in 1772 Boston to publicize unfairness against …show more content…
In the early 1750, when France expanded the Ohio river it brought conflict with it. When French defeated Braddock, Braddock’s successor, George Washington, and Governor Shirley, Shirley started fearing that French settlers would side with France military. But this changed when William Pitt became new leader in 1757 he saw colonial conflicts so he borrowed money to finance war, he paid Prussia to fight in Europe. For the first time in July 1758 British won their first victory in Louisburg. After that they started winning in Quebec, and Plains of Abraham. Then French lost their holding in Canada too, after that Spain joined France, so now British had to focused on French and Spanish territories. There was peace conference hold in 1763 where British got Canada from France and Florida from Spain. Because of this treaty American Colonies got strong by removing European to north and south and it also opened Mississippi
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