America was preserved by God as a land of Freedom. Many Christians came to America to find refuge and freedom to worship God as they believed. Never in history had so many unselfish leaders united together as the founding fathers. They sought a balanced government between tyranny and anarchy, knowing neither could be effective in leading a free and independent people. They believed that all men were created equal with certain unalienable rights and formed a constitution that was meant to protect the peoples rights and installed checks and balances to prevent elected men from usurping authority and acting as a king or dictator. The constitution of the United States became the hope for freedom and liberty for all men in all countries and inspired many countries to seek their own free governments with similar constitutions. Read More…
Chronological History of Events Related to the USA
John Hancock on a Militia: “They fight (Not for a Master’s ambition, but) for their Houses, their Lands, for their Wives, …for their Liberty, and for their God”
On the 4th anniversary of the Boston Massacre, 1774, John Hancock, who would be the first to sign the Declaration of Independence, stated: “Will not a well-disciplined militia afford you ample security against foreign foes? We want not courage; it is discipline alone in which we are exceeded by the most formidable troops that ever trod the earth… A well-disciplined militia is a safe, an honorable guard ...
Edmond Massey Sermon in London Against the Dangerous and Sinful Practice of Inoculation
On July 8, 1772, Edmund Massey preached a sermon at St. Andrew’s Holborn of London entitled A sermon against the dangerous and sinful practice of inoculation. This text was republished and circulated in Boston, with Massey denouncing inoculation as a dangerous and sinful attempt to escape God’s judgment or to avoid the testing of one’s faith. Instead of receiving inoculation, Massey argued that one should trust the Lord ...
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre takes place in front of the Customs House on King Street where there were 4,000 British troops (following the Townshend Acts of 1767) and about 20,000 residents at the time of the incident. The statement issued by members of the Sons of Liberty, including Samuel Adams and John Hancock, painted the event as a malicious and unprovoked slaughter in retaliation. The incident escalated ...
British Soldiers Arrive in Boston under Martial Law to Control Independent-Minded Americans
The British soldiers (redcoats) arrive in Boston under martial law to punish and control the defiant Americans in Boston who deemed the taxes implemented as unconstitutional since the Americans had no representation in Parliament to vote or voice their opinions. The British kept approximately 2000 redcoats in and around Boston. The troops disembarked and initially encamped on the Boston Commons, as well as, in the Court ...
The Townshend Acts Passed by British Parliament Imposing Several Taxes on the American Colonisits
Townshend Acts, (June 15–July 2, 1767), in U.S. colonial history, series of four acts passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered to be its historic right to exert authority over the colonies through suspension of a recalcitrant representative assembly and through strict provisions for the collection of revenue duties. The British American colonists named the acts after Charles Townshend, who sponsored ...
The Sons of Liberty Erected a Liberty Pole in the commons of NYC Celebrating the Repeal of the Stamp Act.
Although little is ever spoken of the liberty pole today, at the time of the American War for Independence and decades prior, they were the symbol of self-government and freedom from tyranny. Typically, wherever they were formed, Sons of Liberty gathered in town commons under a large tree. These trees-turned-meeting-places were soon known around the colonies as "Liberty Trees.” Some of the greens in towns with ...
Parliament Passes the ‘Declaratory Act’ to Declare Sovereignty Over Colonies in All Cases
Enacted on the same day that Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, the Declaratory Act by King George and British Parliament was merely positioning so that England would not lose face for giving in to the colonies. The British Parliament passed the Declaratory Act in March 1766. It did so in connection with repealing the Stamp Act of 1765. The Declaratory Act was a Parliamentary definition of ...
The Stamp Act was Passed by the British Parliament and Imposed on American Colonists
In an effort to raise funds to pay off debts and defend the vast new American territories won from the French in the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763), the British government passes the Stamp Act on this day in 1765. The legislation levied a direct tax on all materials printed for commercial and legal use in the colonies, from newspapers and pamphlets to playing cards and dice ...
The Miraculous Story of ‘The Bulletproof President’, George Washington
The miraculous story of 'The Bulletproof President' once appeared in virtually every student text in America. At the Battle at the Monongahela, Washington and the British army were ambushed by the French. Every officer on horseback was killed except Washington. He later wrote to his brother John on July 18, 1755: But by the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability ...
The First Political Cartoon: Benjamin Franklin’s Satirical ‘Join, or Die’
Join or Die Benjamin Franklin is famous for his sense of humor. In 1751, he wrote a satirical commentary in his Pennsylvania Gazette suggesting that as a way to thank the Brits for their policy of sending convicted felons to America, American colonists should send rattlesnakes to England. Three years later, in 1754, he used a snake to illustrate another point. This time not so humorous ...
