Essay #4: Boston Tea Party

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.

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.

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.

Quarter 4: Book Portfolio

(<------Book cover Fever 1793)Fever 1793, By: Laurie Halse Anderson 2001. It's about the yellow fever spreading through Philadelphia, people all of a sudden just start dieing in no time. Mattie a little girl goes through allot of troubles with losing friend and family to this horrible sickness, the question would be is she safe from this? The theme of this book would be never take anything for granted, because you never know what is coming. People fight allot and hold grudges towards people, but you never know if you will ever see them again, just cherish every moment of life.

Allot of people in this world need to just look around at what they truly have, you don't know how rich you are. I'm not even talking about money I'm talking also about family, people that care about you. Never abuse that at all, love is one of the most important things in this life. A part of the book that could described this is when Mattie was having problems with one of her best friends and then all of a sudden she got sick and died, Mattie never forgave herself after that. Another thing is when Mattie had been fight non-stop with her mother, and only a couple of days after her mother got very sick, and she then later passed. All these things that happened was horrible for Mattie. If she could have taken back, (all the fighting) she would've but it was to late. One more example would be when she had argued with her grandfather about how to treat her mom when she was sick, well guess what later her grandfather started to get sick. This theme in history is that this sickness actually happened in the later 17oo's, and people probably actually did feel this way when family got sick.

(<------ Guy with yellow fever, pain in his arm)

People actually had to go through this back then, the yellow fever was horrible i will share some background information on it. One reason that people almost always died from the yellow fever is because there was no cure for it, there was nothing you could do but rest. Some of the symptoms that you could get were head aches, chills, BAD pains in the arms, legs, and back. After about three days of your fever being done it would come back. You would then have had a high fever where your red blood cells are destroyed and then your skin and eyes turn yellow. You then start to throw up black and your nose bleeds non-stop. The significance of theme in history is that this is a true story, these things actually happened in history.

(<------Laurie Halse-------> Author of Fever 1793)Do not take anything for granted, you don't know what you've got until it's gone. The significance of the theme in the book is that it helps described what the characters are really like and what they really truly care about. The significance of the theme in history is that people actually had to go through this, this sickness was a HUGE deal and ended up killing many people. The book presented the theme very well and it was clearly understood, the author did a very good job and the theme. The importance of understanding the theme is that this happens all the time still in our everyday lives and this book could help with a loss, if it be a person or an animal it could still be useful. I would recommend this book to any age or anyone, it was a very well written novel.

Valley Forge Letter:

Febuary,10,1778

Dear Homestead,
Oh do i wish you were there, I have been out on vallley forge. It's just pure cold, our supplys are running low and the soldiers have started to get sick. I miss you all down there in boston massachusets. The snow has not let up, though im kinda used to it. How's my girl, probably just as pritty as her mama?
Washington has now started to clean up the place a little and have a little more authority. This is taken care of by Baron Von Stueben. We are also just started to get more supplies through General Nathanael Green, he took over the quartermasters post. Though General Thomas Mifflin does not like his job and really ignores it, he is in charge in transportation so the roads are horrible. Though what does he care, he already is wealthy.
So how is the weather up there in boston, i bet not much different then ours up here in Pennsylvania. I do so miss you guys, im hoping this will all be over soon though it's not looking so good. Well the best wishes for you all. Keep me and the soldiers in your prayers. I love you. Bye.


Sincerely,
Robert Clement

William Penn: Quarter 4 project..........

William Penn born in London October,14,1733. He spent the earlier years of his life in Essex and some of it in Ireland. He went to school and studied in Christ Church in Oxford. It was there when he converted to Quakerism. He was a good friend of the Quakers for example Nathanael Greene. He also spent most of his life in England, though is well known for the earlier history that he had in America, for this trip he served many different purposes.

One thing that Penn did that changed the colonies is that he tried to improve the indians, this is something most other Quakers would not think of. He also was for religous freedom, and was a protagonist of religious toleration. Penn was a person the would rule everything in his area (pennslyvannia) and Ben Franklin was a colonial representive and was trying to and wanted to fight his descendents which would be the Penn family. Him being like this would also help others with being what they want to be like and is also a step closer to being free in everything. Penn also tried to improve the rights of all English men. He went and was thinking that if Holland had a wealthy country and was for religious tolerance, then maybe his country should be. This could be a way to get money.

One time he went and started preaching to hundreds in front of a meeting house of the Quakers after it being padlocked by the authorities. After the meeting Penn and William Mead were arrested and put in prison for inciting a riot. At Penn's trial he calming told the illegality of the proceedings against him. He was like this with the whole religion thing because he did not like Roman Catholics for example a person would be like Daniel Carroll, he wanted everyone to be free from there religion. He also wanted wealth for his country by immigrants coming here. He also wanted to be just like Holland and they had the freedom of religion. Penn also went and helped the Americans become closer to the Indians and for the Indians to make negotiated peacefull purchases.

I think that Penn should be known as a greater hero in history, then what he stands in right now. He helped a large society have religious freedom, and allowed them to be in what they believe. Not what they are told to believe. Now where would this country be if we had to believe in things we didn't, it such a great disturbance that we cant even imagine. This whole country would go downhill and so much rage would be going on that we wouldn't be able to help ourselves. I could be even worse than the great depression.

Boston Massacre: Essay of Revolution Exam

Gentelmen of the jury i stand he berfore you because captian Preston is not guilty, to start this Rumpus seen on Royal Exchange Lane and King street in front of the custom house there was a big misunderstanding. How this all got started is by Captian Preston and the british soldiers fighting with the everyday, to start this out the mob of citizens through snowballs at the soldiers and struck them with sticks, this from the testimony of Theodore Bliss and Robert Goddard. Therefore the soldiers were threatned by this, then people within the mob started yelling fire, for no apparent reason, this from the testimony of Theodore Bliss. The soldiers were confused as to whom was saying it under all of the yelling and screaming and then had shot, after the first shot all the other soldiers went into affect as if trained. Then at that point Captian Preston had said, "not to shoot you fools!" Through all of this there is a death of five civilians.

I think that the civilians are to blame, because the civilians are the ones that tempted the soldiers to a fight by throwing snowballs, they also started the fight by mouthing off to them. Another reason why they should be blamed for this fight and that would be because they went and struck them first, they ended up throwing snowballs and striking the soldiers with a stick. Which they could have acted in the sence of self defense. Also after this fact they have been yelling fire, and the soldiers fired like they were trained to do, what would have happened if it was in fact Captian Preston saying to fire and they didnt and one of the citizens ended up killing the captian, they wouldve been in alot more trouble.

The consquence should not be put on the captian or the soldiers at all, they are innocent and had done right and what they were trained to do from the beginning of there military training. So in fact the people that should go to jail or be hung are the citizens that had yelled fire, if any way possible to figure out who yelled it out. Also all the other citizens should be charged by starting the fight and endangering the soldiers. This would show the king of England that we know true justice and will give people what they deserve. Also that the justice will be served. If you to hang the soldiers these soldiers are soldiers of England brought up by the king now what kind of respect would that bring to our king? Let me tell you this, it's not the type of respect you would want to be treated with. These soldiers do nothing but what they are told and said to, so i beg of you to listin to my testimony and let the soldiers be free.