Section 4:
Part A:
1. The colonists were independent- minded people with strong ideas. Their life was often harsh; cold, hunger, and disease were constant threats. Despite all the troubles that the colonists faced they prospered, but to make sure that London got their share they controlled the tax.
2. The Navigation Acts were a series of laws that forced the colonists to trade only with England, using English ships and crews. The laws forced them to accept low prices for the goods they produced and therefore, most of the colonists did not like them and some of them even chose to ignore these unfair laws.
3. Like I said in question three the colonists did not approve these laws and they did not agree with them. These laws cause the colonists to get low price for the materials and crops that they were growing.
4. These pirates made friends with the colonists ashore and were known as the freebooters. They were mostly smugglers, supplying untaxed goods to grateful settlers on the coast of America.
5. These pirates were welcomed on American shores and some were even financed by investment groups of businessmen who outfitted the ships and bought letters of marque from dishonest officials. So, the colonists turned to the freebooters because of the high tax prices from England. This bad relationship over taxes would led to the American Revolution in 1776. Before this the freebooters were respectable citizens.
Section B:
1. Through out all the activities that we have done with these books we have done something wit the Buccaneers. The Buccaneers were originally lawless hunters from Hispaniola and were named after the “boucan” barbecues on which they smoked meat. The first pirates started about 4,600 years ago about the same time as the first sailors. The Viking Raiders cruised the north sea, the Atlantic, and the Baltic from the 9th to the 11th century. Their ships were light fast; they raided coastal towns and villages. Then they later became peaceful settlers. The Privateers which is another group that we have discussed a great deal throughout the pirate unit, were merchant ships used because the king and queen could not afford navies. King Henry III issued each privateer with a “letter of marque,” a piracy permit. This authorized the captain of the merchant ship to attack the enemy on the king’s behalf. The Corsairs were about during the 16th century and they had a religious excuse for plunder. The pirates were called “corsairs” after the Latin word cursus, meaning plunder. This fight was mainly between the Christian and the Muslims. During this period the Barbarossa Brothers were some of the most powerful and famous pirates of the Corsairs. The New World pirates- as the 16th century began, the world grew suddenly bigger. Moving on to the Spanish Main- mainland America- they plundered the wealth of two great Native American peoples, which were: the Incas of Peru and the Aztecs of Mexico. Francis Drake turned pirate after the Spanish raided his merchant chip in the Caribbean. The attack on a Spanish town in 1572 made his reputation.
2. Out of all the pirates I must say that I like Mary Read and Anne Bonny best out of all the different ones I have read about. They wore men’s clothes when they fought alongside the other pirates on “Calico” Jack Rackham’s ship. It is said that their shipmates may have never knew their true identity. When the rest of their crew was arrested they escaped execution by claiming that they were pregnant. I think that the mystery behind them is just fascinating. I, myself, would have loved to have been a pirate they are awesome in my eyes. These two pirates were girls and think about how smart they had to be to keep their identity hidden and to escape execution. I think it was awesome that they disguised themselves as men and fought alongside the other men on a pirate ship, and then when they were found out they said they were pregnant. Sorry had to bring out my women’s right in this one, and it seems that it was a great story.
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