Thomas Gage

Examples of Thomas Gage in the following topics:

• The Acts of Parliament

  • Lieutenant-General Thomas Gage, commander-in-chief of forces in British North America, and other British officers who fought in the French and Indian War, were finding it hard to persuade colonial assemblies to pay for the quartering and provisioning of troops on the march.
  • As a result, Gage asked Parliament to find a solution.
  • Following the expiration of an act that provided British regulars with quartering in New York, Parliament passed the Quartering Act of 1765, which went far beyond what Gage had requested.
  • "Thomas Gage," oil on canvas, by the American artist John Singleton Copley.

• Lexington and Concord

  • In an effort to restore law and order in Boston, the British dispatched General Thomas Gage to the New England seaport.
  • Gage’s actions led to the formation of local rebel militias that were able to mobilize in a minute’s time.
  • British General Thomas Gage, the military governor and commander-in-chief, received instructions on April 14, 1775, from Secretary of State William Legge, to disarm the rebels and imprison the rebellion's leaders.
  • On the night of April 18, 1775, General Gage sent 700 men to seize munitions stored by the colonial militia at Concord.
  • Even now, after open warfare had started, Gage still refused to impose martial law in Boston.

• Britain's War

  • General Thomas Gage, in command of British forces in North America during the early rebellion, suffered criticism for his leniency.

• Fort Ticonderoga

  • After the war began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, the British General Thomas Gage realized the fort would require fortification; simultaneously, several colonists had the idea of capturing the fort.

• Genetics, the Brain, and Personality

  • For example, Thomas and Chess (1977) found that babies could be categorized into one of three temperaments: easy, difficult, or slow to warm up.
  • One of the first documented cases that demonstrated the link between personality and the brain was that of Phineas Gage.
  • In 1858, Gage was working as a blasting foreman for a railroad company.
  • The spike pierced Gage's frontal lobe, and Gage experienced many subsequent changes in aspects of personality that we now know are associated with this area of the brain.
  • The case of Phineas Gage was one of the first indicators of a biological basis for personality.

• The Brain and Personality

  • One of the first documented cases that demonstrated the link between personality and the brain was that of Phineas Gage.
  • In 1858, Gage was working as a blasting foreman for a railroad company.
  • Gage miraculously survived the accident.
  • Prior to the injury, Gage was described as hard-working, responsible, and well-liked.
  • The case of Phineas Gage was one of the first to indicators of a biological basis for personality.

• The Battle of Bunker Hill

  • Their report, however, did not reach England before British Lieutenant General Gage's official account arrived on July 20.
  • Gage's report had a more direct effect on his own career.
  • Gage wrote another report to the British Cabinet in which he repeated earlier warnings that "a large army must at length be employed to reduce these people" that would require "the hiring of foreign troops."

• Social Cognition

  • However, cases like Phineas Gage's suggest that there is some kind of relationship between neural activity and social behavior.
  • Phineas Gage's brain damage became an important case study in the field of psychology; damage to his frontal lobe with a tamping iron (pictured) changed his social behavior, leading psychologists to believe that there were neural aspects of behavior.

• Women's Activism

  • Anthony and other activists, such as Victoria Woodhull and Matilda Joslyn Gage, made attempts to cast votes prior to their legal entitlement to do so, for which many of them faced charges.
  • Matilda Joslyn Gage of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), resembled the radicalism of much of second-wave feminism.
  • Not everyone welcomed her preaching and lectures, but she had many friends and staunch support among many influential people at the time, including Amy Post, Parker Pillsbury, Frances Gage, Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, Laura Smith Haviland, Lucretia Mott, Ellen G.

• Case Studies

  • Phineas Gage: Gage was a rail construction foreman who survived an accident in which a tamping rod went through his skull and brain.