American+Revolution

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10-6-10

Homework: Write a paragraph explainging how how you feel a British Person would feel about the American Revolution.

I think that the British would feel that the American Revolution was a waste of time, and a shame for the lives that were lost. The British had beat the French with the help of the colonies. The victory over the French had probably led them to believe that they couldn't lose. Until the Albany State of Union had brought upon the idea of colonist being free and uniting together. The British and colonies went together and they had lost. They fought for a while and a lot of lives were lost. The Colonies then gained freedom, and became the United States of America. The British on the other hand, had lost their source of gaining money from trading, and was forced to find a way to maintain some sort of power and money over something else.

10-8-10

Do Now: What are some modern day issues on which there are varying perspectives?

- The new builiding of the mosque near ground zero. - Obama's health care plan - The economy - The elections - Randy Moss being traded to the Vikings - Lindsey Lohan not being charged of her drug problems.

Last Week's Work: Document # 7 Title: British Seven Years War Debt 1. The British,colonies and taxes 2. The colonist payed less taxes than the British 3. The British payted the highest taxes resulting in its debt.

Document # 1 Title: The Magna Carta 1..No freeman should be taxed; Human Rights 2. It says no man should be taxed. 3. No tax shall be imposed on the kingdom,.

Document # 3 Title: Mayflower Compact 1. Pilgrims left England. 2. Oppose, because religious freedom which is escaping taxation.

Paragraph Question: Based on the Documents, would you support or oppose the British Right to tax?

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I feel that the colonist did not appreciate the Stamp Act that the British were enforcing upon them, they felt as if it was unfair because paper was the main usage that they had to use.
 * __ How does it seem the colonists felt about the Stamp Act? __**

__** How do you think they might react to the imposition of this law? **__ I believe that they might react in a manner as rebelling against the law that they presented, as somehow cheating them in a way that they were not suppose to be doing. I think that they are going to do something that will enforce a law upon them even more.

--Did by Maha Kourkchi

My predictions were correct. I knew that the colonists would be furious to have a tax imposed on them without having a say. If I were in their shoes, I would be irate too. It's not fair to be forced to do something you don't want to do, and that's exactly what was happening to the colonists. -- Maha's predictions.

--Did by Maha Kourkchi
 * Summary:** In 1765, the British emposed a law upon the Colonist called the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act stated that they would be charged to use anything that included paper. The Colonist however did not feel that this was something that should have happened. The colonist started rebelling against them, and started to form mobs. The mobs were messy, and formed more consequences then what was necessary. The mobs were suppose to be a political tactic, but the tactic did not form anything better than what they were trying to do.
 * Solution:** Both the colonist and British could have worked something out that could have incorpirated a better understanding to how everything had came out. Also, the Colonist could have used a better tactic other than the mobs and it would have worked as a poltical unit.

The Sons of Liberty were not justified to let the mobs be used as a political tactic. There were too many bad outcomes to enforce that there was any good outcomes that would come out. To enforce mobs, it would cause more conflict then what was already going on. With the mobs going on, it made the british to cause consequences upon the whole town. The consequences included the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act was what had caused the town to make mobs which ultimately caused the consequences as to be taxed to everything they mostly needed. The outdoor meetings were also hard to handle, which gave them a loss of standing there as a more forceful group of people. This lack of authority claimed to show the officials that the mobs were a weakness and they handled that against the colonists. If they handled that against the colonist, then that would have gave the colonists a lesser chance to making themselves appear more dominate. With the less number of dominance against your opponents, you lose your sense of power, because they lost their sence of power, it showed to the officials that these mobs were not to be feared of, and could be easily over thrown of. With the colonist keeping on causing riots, it made the officials angry. With anger, there always come consequences. These consequences involved taxes, now with the British, they still had a debt and needed the colonist to pay a tax in some sort of way. With the Sugar act being repealed, they decided to enforce the Stamp Act, which meant everything that was paper had a tax. The mobs broke out even more, but the more they broke out, the more the consequences piled up. I feel that the Sons of Liberty were stupid to put the mobs as a political tactic, politics doesn't involve violence, they could have found a better way to sort things out. If they had made better tactics against the crown officials, they could have won over them. The lack of skill they had presented let them lose their fear more than anything. The loss of fear had let the crown officials see the meetings were so out of place that they could easily penetrate and retaliate against the mobs. The Sons Of Liberty had no justice to use the mobs as a political tactic, the mobs in a way was a more weaker sorce to the colonist more than anything. The usage of the mobs did not help as they were intended to, but hurt them more than anything.



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Do Now: Can violence ever be justified? Why or why not?

I think violence can be justified. If you were ever being attacked, you would need to be violent but that would fall under the category of self defense, so technically it can be justified. But, I think it would have to be a justified reason, as if it was an accident you don't do anything back, but if it was on purpose and they wanted you to be hurt, then you would hit back.

=__//**The 1st Continental Congress:**//__= 12 of the 13 North American Colonies met on September 5, 1774, at Carpentar's hill in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The the Intolerable Acts were made, and 56 members were joined. The Continental Congress tried to petition to halt the Intolerable Acts. They encouraged each colony to set up their own military.

Who: 12 out of the 13 American Colonies. When: September 5, 1774. Where: Carpentar's Hill in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. What: 56 members joined to create this one massive group of people. How: 12 of the 13 colonies met together, in Philadelphia creating this one group to try to oppose the Intolerable Acts. Why: To petition to halt the Intolerable Acts.

On September 5, 1774, twelve out of the thirteen American colonies met up at Carpentar's hill in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. These people all came here together hoping to stop one goal they all had in mind; The Intolerable Acts. The twelve colonies brought a total of 56 members to the meeting. Each of these members tried to petition a halt to the Intolerable Acts. They felt the way how to complete this mission of halting the Intolerable act was for the each colony to set up their own army. They also thought of making and economic boycott against the British trade,

__**Key Terms**.__
Direct tax- a tax put directly toward the people under the law. Indirect tax- a tax levied indirectly. Boycott- To come together, and use intimidation to protest against something. Boston Massacre- a riot in Boston (March 5, 1770) arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several persons. Boston Tea Party-A mob against British ships in Boston Harbor (December 16, 1773) in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea and against The East India Trading Company. Sons of Liberty- a ny of several patriotic societies, that opposed the Stamp Act and supported the move for independence. Patriots- a person who loves, supports, and defends his or her country and its interests with devotion. Loyalists- a person who is loyal; a supporter of the sovereign or of the existing government

// Arms and Ammuntion: Guns and bullets- musket. // //Minutemen- Soldiers that take one minute to get ready, young people that were trained to fight.// //Militia- A group of people who belong to an army, a civilian army,// //British Regular- A redcoat. British **__Army.__**// //Alarm Riders- A person who rides around to tell people something bad is going to happen.// //Paul Revere- A silversmith; a patriot in the war.// //Joseph Warren- American doctor and a Major General during the American Revolutionary War. (only unwanted Patriot Leader).//

//CCQ:* A woman's place is NOT in the kitchen. They have as many rights as anyone else, and// __**its stupid**__ //to even consider they weren't good enough as men.*//

//Do Now.// //The people who were at fault on April 19, 1775 was the British. The British, had a missinterpritation that the Colonists were armed and ready to fight, but they were not and ended up killing 8 men.//

-Hold them here, and try to hold on their land. -Keep your fingers away from the trigger. -They are going to line up in formation not on the road, because thats where the British are going on. -There is a preacher at the beginning of the formation. -Drums are playing when the British army comes. -The British use fear as a tactic. -Someone else fired the shot that cause the British to attack. -Innocent people had died for no reason. -The shot was loud and caused mass chaos. -The British once hearing that shot being fired, immediately attacked with anger, and a lot of violence. || __It Means__ -They set up on those formations because they didn't want them to have a weak side. -Flank is the weak side of an army. -They call it elimanating an enemy, because it give them more of a push to do their jobs. -The preacher is there to help comfort them, and make sure that everyone is okay. -The shot fired caused it all to happen. -Innocent men died as a result of this. -The minutemen knowing they had no chance ran as fast as they could. -This all started the revolutionary war. __Summary__: The British had brang intimidation, and when a first shot was fired, minutemen as a result lost their lives. Afterwards,The colonists had set up an ambush along the way when the British were returning from Concord, the ambush killed many British soldiers as well as the British had chased after the colonists and caught them. The battle both brang death to both sides of the armies. || If I were compelled to go against my army and soldiers the only circumstances that would help me make that decision would be if they were threatening my family and loved ones. If the army was threatening their safety then that would make me want to go against them and to do anything I could to save my family. This would be the only thing that would make me try to go against someone who had much more power than me. However, if there was any other way than possible death, I would take that solution too.
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Summary To the PDF: The pdf basically showed us perspectives of each side to whoever experienced the battle of Lexington. With each perspective being shown you get a better experience to what really happened and what was just imagined to someones mind. Each perspective told a differnent story but what was similar was they all showed fear and a sense of pride.

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How do you think the D of I influenced the Continental Army? I think that the declaration of independence greatly influenced the Continental Army, because that army knew the only way that all the thoughts of what the D of I had was only to be accomplished if they pushed themselves to win, and beat their overlords. I think that with this huge pressure on the army, that they stepped up because they knew if they hadn't made an effort to win, they could never be free themselves.

The first Amendment is a protection against the freedom of speech, religion, peace to assemble, petition of government, and expression, and congress can not make any laws violating this right.

An Amendment is a statement that is added to or revises or improves a proposal or document.

The Bill of Rights in our Constitution serves as the ways we follow our government, it decides our laws and rights, and how we determine who has breached these laws, and the appropriate consequences used to go against those who went against the Bill of Rights.

CAN YOU SAY THAT?

I do not think that the principle violated the student's first amendment, The principle put up an arguement that the parents of the student, had no idea about the publication and did not even approve if they could have been put in the story or not. The first amendment states, that the student has freedom of speech, however by the student writing about someone other than themself, they are violating the rights of those who they are writing about because no approval from them were given. Therefore, the principle, had a right to delete that part of the newspaper.

The principle had violated that the student's first amendment. The student was not implying a name in the final draft of the school article, therefore, not pointing out anyone at all. If the student, expressed facts that were legitiment, then the principle, had no reason to delete the article.

CHECKS AND BALANCES


 * 1) I am the President, I can declare war on Lower Slobovia; I can make any decision I want.
 * 2) I am a Senator; I can help write and pass any law I want.
 * 3) I am the President of the United States; I can veto any law passed by Congress.
 * 4) I am the President of the United States; I can do anything I want.
 * 5) I am the President of the United States; I can make a treaty with Upper Slobovia.
 * 6) We're the Supreme Court; we'll be ruling on every law for years.

1. The judicial branch could have gone against this, the judicial branch could have made a vote on who would agree and who disagrees about this decision, and ultimately if there were more against the President, than the decision to not go to war with Lower Slobovia would be accounted for.

2. The Executive branch could go against this ruiling, the president and other members of congress would have to as well. If other Senators were against this and the majority won, the law would be ultimately veto or passed, along with the consent of the president.

3. The judicial and legislative branch could repeal, and the law would just be keep on evaluated until the law would be passed.

DO NOW: 2/3/11