What if? This question would raise a lot of conversation on America's earlier history. This would be because if you change one thing you could change where we are now and what we are able to have now, this would include freedom. Almost everything would change the fact of us having complete freedom, though thank god nothing did. Even the boston tea party. What if the boston tea party would not have happened? I dont think that people would see this as a big deal, though it could change everything.
The Boston Tea Party was a time in history where EVERYTHING was being taxed even stamps and these were called the townsend acts, the grenville acts. Well one of the things that the king George III wanted to tax was tea, well the common people of boston did not like that at all. So when a shipment of tea arrived on the port of Boston the drunk commoners arrived on the boat and dumped about 340 chests of tea (value of 10,000 franks). They had done it in a matter of hours and the king was not impressed. Now my question was, what if this wouldn't have happened? Well if the commeners were not drinking they probably wouldn't have had the guts to do anything about it and if they wouldn't have dumped the tea then the king wouldn't have gotten the message. If the king wouldn't have gotten the message then taxes would have kept going up and probably to a rate un-bareable.
This would be significant today because if that wouldn't have happened maybe we would be a monarchy and not have all the freedoms and rights that we have. Or maybe we would have alot higher taxes then we do now. See if only this would happen agian today but with oil, could you imagine what people would say have 450 barrles of oil dumped right into the harbor. I think that if someone would just stand up like the people back then, then maybe we wouldnt be in this position much longer. I think that it was a good idea for them to dump all of the tea.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Essay #3: George Washington
George Washington was a huge historical figure for America, he was well known as the first president of the United States. Though what most people dont know is the stuff that George Washinton had to go through to get to that point in history. He was involved in many different things for example, how he started his famous era would be when John Adams appointed him as commander of continental army. Then he Washington gets into a war called battle of Trenton and leads his army over the Delaware line in the winter time, this was a mistake because tons of people had started to get pneumonia and got very sick and started to die off.
One of Washingtons high points would have been when he retreated from the battle of Trenton to avoid General Cornwaillis' attack, he also made a good desicion by in Princeton when Washington ambushes the Brittish troops and has a long war with Brittain though the escaped and got out of Cornwallisis attack agian. Another thing thought that George Washington did wrong was when he sent the troops to Brooklynn, he had half the amount of troops then what the brittish had. The Brittish drove the troops out of Brooklynn and into New York. Though one more thing that Washington was succesfull at was the battle of Trenton, it was a clear victory for Washington and his troops. He had a rough and hard journey there by they made it and had a very nice battle agianst the Brittish.
Washington had a unique role in playing the founding of America because he went and became lieutenant colonel, then was appointed to commander in chief then had some more army experiances and then he lost New York City to the brittish and that was a down fall. Though after the war even though he had just as much bad experiances as good they appointed him president and he became a very large historical figure for that, though at this time they had also issued the declaration of independence. Though today if our running presidents were to do anything even close to as nad as what washington did we wouldn't have them be in office.
One of Washingtons high points would have been when he retreated from the battle of Trenton to avoid General Cornwaillis' attack, he also made a good desicion by in Princeton when Washington ambushes the Brittish troops and has a long war with Brittain though the escaped and got out of Cornwallisis attack agian. Another thing thought that George Washington did wrong was when he sent the troops to Brooklynn, he had half the amount of troops then what the brittish had. The Brittish drove the troops out of Brooklynn and into New York. Though one more thing that Washington was succesfull at was the battle of Trenton, it was a clear victory for Washington and his troops. He had a rough and hard journey there by they made it and had a very nice battle agianst the Brittish.
Washington had a unique role in playing the founding of America because he went and became lieutenant colonel, then was appointed to commander in chief then had some more army experiances and then he lost New York City to the brittish and that was a down fall. Though after the war even though he had just as much bad experiances as good they appointed him president and he became a very large historical figure for that, though at this time they had also issued the declaration of independence. Though today if our running presidents were to do anything even close to as nad as what washington did we wouldn't have them be in office.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Common Sense: Revolution Exam
The common Sense was a copy that had spoken about how the suffering and trouble times that the colonies had been going through was because of Britain. Thomas Paine wrote the Common Sense, and was describing the horrible things that King George III. This was also known to be the "immediate declaration of independence." Not long after this was written Thomas Paine started talking about the declaration of independence. This writing is what sparked the American Revolution.
Some reasons why the colonies have the right to rebel against Britain is because they keep taxing things that don't need to be taxed for example the Boston Tea Party, the commoners did rebel over that because they raised the price on tea when not necessary and they got what they deserved. Another reason would be because, they put the catholic religion into practice and made it mandatory for people to practice that religion which was not necessary either. George wanted what he wanted he didn't care about anyone else but himself and the colonies knew it and that's why they ended up rebelling over Britain. They started to abuse the power of being rulers of a new land. I think that the colonies should rebel because if they didn't then they would have been ruled and everything would have been taxed right through the roof, just like us today. Also we may not be where we are now if they didn't rebel, we still probably would have not been as free as we are today. So i am glad that the colonies did what they did.
If i was a historical writer at this time i would have thought that this world is heading for some major trouble and that we need to get ourselves out of the mess before it got any worse. I would also not see freedom, i would think that we were going to stay in monarchy forever and always have a ruler and not the freedom of religion. I would also see all of these large historical figures not so big in our world today, i would think that they wouldn't have gotten this far as to complete freedom to the united States. I would also not see us being the United States i would see us being ruled by Britain, though thank god that were not.
Some reasons why the colonies have the right to rebel against Britain is because they keep taxing things that don't need to be taxed for example the Boston Tea Party, the commoners did rebel over that because they raised the price on tea when not necessary and they got what they deserved. Another reason would be because, they put the catholic religion into practice and made it mandatory for people to practice that religion which was not necessary either. George wanted what he wanted he didn't care about anyone else but himself and the colonies knew it and that's why they ended up rebelling over Britain. They started to abuse the power of being rulers of a new land. I think that the colonies should rebel because if they didn't then they would have been ruled and everything would have been taxed right through the roof, just like us today. Also we may not be where we are now if they didn't rebel, we still probably would have not been as free as we are today. So i am glad that the colonies did what they did.
If i was a historical writer at this time i would have thought that this world is heading for some major trouble and that we need to get ourselves out of the mess before it got any worse. I would also not see freedom, i would think that we were going to stay in monarchy forever and always have a ruler and not the freedom of religion. I would also see all of these large historical figures not so big in our world today, i would think that they wouldn't have gotten this far as to complete freedom to the united States. I would also not see us being the United States i would see us being ruled by Britain, though thank god that were not.
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