The primary sources I selected are The Declaration of Independence, and The Bill of Rights. These two documents were written after the revolutionary war when America got their freedom from Great Britain. They both state different things but they share a common Political/ Government theme. The Declaration of Independence gives Americans the freedom from Great Britain to make their own laws and to have their own government. It also entitles Americans to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Written by Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin, the three men and the rest of the House of Representatives were fed up with Brittan’s rule. The Bill of Rights however is a list of laws/ amendments, which every American citizen is entitled to. It gave America freedom of speech, the right to bear arms and to a quick and easy court trial. It was America’s first list of rules as a new independent country, written by congress. The declaration gave all of the colonies and what would soon be present day America their freedom. On the other hand The Bill of Rights specified the declaration in terms of what they meant. The revolutionary war was only a stepping stone towards present day America. The Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights were what later made us an independent nation. Alone these two documents don’t make America the perfect nation. However if we put the two together they give America the freedom and independence needed to make our nation great.
The Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights are very different from one another, but they are also quite the same in one common theme. The theme they are the same in is freedom. The Declaration of Independence is establishing America’s freedom from Britain after the war was finished. It says that “all men are created equal and have the rights to life, love, and the pursuit of happiness.” Many men signed this petition which in short, state that they were fed up with Britain and their king who had committed many offenses to America. Thomas Jefferson was the master mind behind the plot and wrote out this document of freedom. The Bill of Rights was sort of a clarifier for the meaning of freedom. The Bill of Rights told the citizens what they were free to do. They had the freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom to bear arms, and the freedom to assemble. It also states that anyone has the freedom to have quick and easy trials when they want them. The Declaration of Independence gave America their freedom, but the Bill of Rights specified what they meant by it. The connection between the two is that they both had aspects of freedom to themselves. One gave freedom to an entire land, and one took some away by clarifying exactly what the signers of the Declaration had meant. All in all even though the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights were two entirely different documents, they had the same concept in the end which signified the title of freedom.
These primary choices that I chose are both from the Smithsonian source for primary sources. They are both important documents from the pre- Revolutionary War era. One of the sources is an issue of the Pennsylvania Gazette, a newspaper published during the time of the American Revolution. The other source is a letter from John Andrews, a Boston merchant, to his brother-in-law in Philadelphia. These two sources are important because they show people’s views on the country and Britain during this time period. The article in the Pennsylvania Gazette focused on the Stamp Act and how the colonists disliked the act and wanted to revolt against the government. The newspaper also discusses unrest in other colonies, boycotts and riots in Halifax, and the burning of taxmen in effigy. According to the Smithsonian source, newspapers were a primary form of communication during those times and served as a barometer for public opinion. The other primary source was John Andrews writing a letter to his brother in law about a stopping of trade between England and the West Indies, and the effect the riots had on the merchants. The two sources are connected because they both are examples of types of communication during the pre-Revolutionary era, and they both discuss the colonist’s thoughts of a revolution. These primary sources are different in some ways. The Pennsylvania Gazette was stirring up the people; however, John Andrew was talking about how he is wary of an approaching revolution because it was bad for trade. - Jake Gross
In the Pennsylvania Gazette, the article describes the affects of the Stamp Act of 1765. The article continues to describe the need to have the Stamp Act repealed at the next Parliament meeting. This newspaper also talks about how people were extremely unhappy with this act and were starting to rebel in their own ways against Great Britain. The short excerpt from the diary of Janet Schaw, a Scot, describes her observations when she visits her brother in North Carolina. She describes how one, no matter how rich or poor, must house and feed soldiers. If they do not, then they are punished. This describes the Quartering Act of 1765. This law required American colonists to always house British soldiers. These primary source readings are related because they are both first hand accounts of the reactions of the colonists to all the laws the British were passing. These laws angered the colonists and eventually led to the Revolutionary War. The Revolutionary War was a huge event because it is what determined the colonies' freedom from Britain. After the war was won by the colonists, the United States of America was formed.
A son and his father are having conflicts over a slave woman, the son wants to free her, but the father is against it. The son, John Fee, wanted to help this woman, Julett, and her family, stay together. John asked his father to sell Julett to him and his father willingly agreed and set a price. When he told his father he planned on freeing her; his father replied with an insult as though she was not a good slave. Even John’s mother was unhappy with the fact that Julett was being freed. Eventually John figured out a way for Julett to be free and stay with her family; however his father told him he was going to sell her later that day because he got her a house to live in. After legal research John convinced his father to allow Julett and her family to remain free. John did all of this from the goodness of his heart and even went against his family to do what was right. Ann Clay’s son, Zeke, went off to join the Confederates even though their family was pro-union. She believes that he is disgracing himself in doing this. Zeke believed that her was doing the right thing, but his mother hoped her own son would go to jail for this. It seems to me as though almost the entire town got involved with the fact that Zeke had gone off to the Confederacy. Everyone is turning against each other and picking sides. As seen in both of these primary sources the Civil War caused many conflicts between families. In both of the sources the son goes against the beliefs of the rest of the family causing complications all across the board. Also, in both cases the sons did what they did because they felt it was the right thing.
On December 16th, 1773, the Boston Tea Party occurred. At the end of the French and Indian war, King George 3rd was looking for a new way to tax the colonists to pay off the cost for the war. One way King George 3rd taxed the colonists was by initiating the Stamp Act and the Townsend Acts. His attempt to put tax on the tea for the colonists did not go over too well.. This lead to the Boston Tea party. The Stamp act was a tax on all printed materials such as newspapers and magazines. The Townsend Acts are taxes on glass, lead, paper, paint and tea. The colonists didn't Lepidus these taxes at all and thought they were unfair so they revolted. As objection, a group of colonists disguised themselves as native Americans and jumped onto a ship with loaded cargo of tea. They began to dump all the tea overboard into the harbor waters. As an effect of the Boston Tea Party, the parliament passed new laws called the Intolerable Acts. This law limited the freedom of the colonists for they had to be granted permission by the governor to hold any public meetings.
The letter is describing how poor she is. And she became poor from moving to California to collect gold. She is not able to collect enough of the gold to be rich or even middle class. This was happening to a lot of the people who went to California, because companies were the ones collecting the most gold. I think Mrs. Hill told us you need to collect 7 ounces or .07 ounces. The gold rush brought a lot of the population out to California. Cities grew rapidly which changed the environment fast. But from the gold value it also brought its crimes along with it. Murder and mayhem came along with it. This picture shows the different ethnicity of California. Because the news of gold wasn’t just herd by the white man. People from Hawaii came over the came from Asia and Native Americans started to mind too. Another reason why California’s population grew so quickly in the 1840’s. It also shows the way in which they mined. They used rivers and sifter because they didn’t have the technology to create a strip mine like today. To brake rocks they had to use picks not diamond tip blades like we have today.
During the heat of the civil war, many of the southern colonies began to succeed from the union. This separated them from the once united, states. The nation was broken; the north against the south. Nearly all in the year of 1861, the confederate states declared orders of secession. This meant that they wanted to break unity ties with the nation. The confederate states each declared that they wanted to be their own separate nations, with their own government. This of course caused great conflict because it was literally the breaking point of the United States. There seemed to be no real winner at this point in the civil war. Not until, the legendary battle of Gettysburg, where the north saw a winning end to the war. It was towards the end of the war that Lincoln won re-election and made a second inaugural address that was as powerful as the first. This time it was a plea for peace. Not only for peace but equality among black and white citizens as well. Lincoln mentions in his closing statement, “With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds…” this simply means, we must bring the country back together. These two primary sources reflect the civil war because the secession of the confederate states is the low point of the war whereas Lincolns re-election and reconstruction process is when the future is looking brighter and positive for change.
Right now gay people are the minority focus in America. It’s official. Some places in America are excepting of gay rights, while others are strictly against it. In Russia they are so strictly against it, that they will arrest a person for being gay. In some southern states, they are very similar to Russia in their way of handling gay rights. They have anti-gay laws which promote arresting people for being gay. Just recently Michael Sam openly admitted to being gay and could become the first openly gay player to play in the NFL. The players took it well and supported him, and didn’t give him a hard time, so there still are some people who don’t absolutely hate gay people, but give those people rights and a chance like every other person deserves. This connects greatly in depth with the topics we are learning in history today. In history we are learning about the rights that the African Americans had before and after the civil war and the emancipation proclamation. Like the articles, there are people who are taking to the African Americans like Russia and the southern states took to gay rights. They hated it and did everything in their power to hate against them and keep it from their state and country. The people who favored it like Michael Sam’s teammates lived in the North of the United States, while the ones who discriminated and hated the African Americans lived in the south. All in all the comparisons between the gay rights case and the African American case from long ago are strikingly familiar. We just have to learn to accept it and move on, because looks like the African Americans helped us out in the long run, why not give the gays a chance as well.
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The primary sources I selected are The Declaration of Independence, and The Bill of Rights. These two documents were written after the revolutionary war when America got their freedom from Great Britain. They both state different things but they share a common Political/ Government theme. The Declaration of Independence gives Americans the freedom from Great Britain to make their own laws and to have their own government. It also entitles Americans to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Written by Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin, the three men and the rest of the House of Representatives were fed up with Brittan’s rule. The Bill of Rights however is a list of laws/ amendments, which every American citizen is entitled to. It gave America freedom of speech, the right to bear arms and to a quick and easy court trial. It was America’s first list of rules as a new independent country, written by congress. The declaration gave all of the colonies and what would soon be present day America their freedom. On the other hand The Bill of Rights specified the declaration in terms of what they meant. The revolutionary war was only a stepping stone towards present day America. The Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights were what later made us an independent nation. Alone these two documents don’t make America the perfect nation. However if we put the two together they give America the freedom and independence needed to make our nation great.
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The Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights are very different from one another, but they are also quite the same in one common theme. The theme they are the same in is freedom. The Declaration of Independence is establishing America’s freedom from Britain after the war was finished. It says that “all men are created equal and have the rights to life, love, and the pursuit of happiness.” Many men signed this petition which in short, state that they were fed up with Britain and their king who had committed many offenses to America. Thomas Jefferson was the master mind behind the plot and wrote out this document of freedom. The Bill of Rights was sort of a clarifier for the meaning of freedom. The Bill of Rights told the citizens what they were free to do. They had the freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom to bear arms, and the freedom to assemble. It also states that anyone has the freedom to have quick and easy trials when they want them. The Declaration of Independence gave America their freedom, but the Bill of Rights specified what they meant by it. The connection between the two is that they both had aspects of freedom to themselves. One gave freedom to an entire land, and one took some away by clarifying exactly what the signers of the Declaration had meant. All in all even though the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights were two entirely different documents, they had the same concept in the end which signified the title of freedom.
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These primary choices that I chose are both from the Smithsonian source for primary sources. They are both important documents from the pre- Revolutionary War era. One of the sources is an issue of the Pennsylvania Gazette, a newspaper published during the time of the American Revolution. The other source is a letter from John Andrews, a Boston merchant, to his brother-in-law in Philadelphia. These two sources are important because they show people’s views on the country and Britain during this time period. The article in the Pennsylvania Gazette focused on the Stamp Act and how the colonists disliked the act and wanted to revolt against the government. The newspaper also discusses unrest in other colonies, boycotts and riots in Halifax, and the burning of taxmen in effigy. According to the Smithsonian source, newspapers were a primary form of communication during those times and served as a barometer for public opinion. The other primary source was John Andrews writing a letter to his brother in law about a stopping of trade between England and the West Indies, and the effect the riots had on the merchants. The two sources are connected because they both are examples of types of communication during the pre-Revolutionary era, and they both discuss the colonist’s thoughts of a revolution. These primary sources are different in some ways. The Pennsylvania Gazette was stirring up the people; however, John Andrew was talking about how he is wary of an approaching revolution because it was bad for trade. - Jake Gross
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In the Pennsylvania Gazette, the article describes the affects of the Stamp Act of 1765. The article continues to describe the need to have the Stamp Act repealed at the next Parliament meeting. This newspaper also talks about how people were extremely unhappy with this act and were starting to rebel in their own ways against Great Britain.
DeleteThe short excerpt from the diary of Janet Schaw, a Scot, describes her observations when she visits her brother in North Carolina. She describes how one, no matter how rich or poor, must house and feed soldiers. If they do not, then they are punished. This describes the Quartering Act of 1765. This law required American colonists to always house British soldiers.
These primary source readings are related because they are both first hand accounts of the reactions of the colonists to all the laws the British were passing. These laws angered the colonists and eventually led to the Revolutionary War. The Revolutionary War was a huge event because it is what determined the colonies' freedom from Britain. After the war was won by the colonists, the United States of America was formed.
Cate
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-Cara Plummer
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-Cara Plummer
A son and his father are having conflicts over a slave woman, the son wants to free her, but the father is against it. The son, John Fee, wanted to help this woman, Julett, and her family, stay together. John asked his father to sell Julett to him and his father willingly agreed and set a price. When he told his father he planned on freeing her; his father replied with an insult as though she was not a good slave. Even John’s mother was unhappy with the fact that Julett was being freed. Eventually John figured out a way for Julett to be free and stay with her family; however his father told him he was going to sell her later that day because he got her a house to live in. After legal research John convinced his father to allow Julett and her family to remain free. John did all of this from the goodness of his heart and even went against his family to do what was right.
DeleteAnn Clay’s son, Zeke, went off to join the Confederates even though their family was pro-union. She believes that he is disgracing himself in doing this. Zeke believed that her was doing the right thing, but his mother hoped her own son would go to jail for this. It seems to me as though almost the entire town got involved with the fact that Zeke had gone off to the Confederacy. Everyone is turning against each other and picking sides.
As seen in both of these primary sources the Civil War caused many conflicts between families. In both of the sources the son goes against the beliefs of the rest of the family causing complications all across the board. Also, in both cases the sons did what they did because they felt it was the right thing.
-Cara Plummer
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/teaparty.htm
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Bianca C.
On December 16th, 1773, the Boston Tea Party occurred. At the end of the French and Indian war, King George 3rd was looking for a new way to tax the colonists to pay off the cost for the war. One way King George 3rd taxed the colonists was by initiating the Stamp Act and the Townsend Acts. His attempt to put tax on the tea for the colonists did not go over too well.. This lead to the Boston Tea party.
DeleteThe Stamp act was a tax on all printed materials such as newspapers and magazines. The Townsend Acts are taxes on glass, lead, paper, paint and tea. The colonists didn't Lepidus these taxes at all and thought they were unfair so they revolted.
As objection, a group of colonists disguised themselves as native Americans and jumped onto a ship with loaded cargo of tea. They began to dump all the tea overboard into the harbor waters. As an effect of the Boston Tea Party, the parliament passed new laws called the Intolerable Acts. This law limited the freedom of the colonists for they had to be granted permission by the governor to hold any public meetings.
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The letter is describing how poor she is. And she became poor from moving to California to collect gold. She is not able to collect enough of the gold to be rich or even middle class. This was happening to a lot of the people who went to California, because companies were the ones collecting the most gold. I think Mrs. Hill told us you need to collect 7 ounces or .07 ounces.
The gold rush brought a lot of the population out to California. Cities grew rapidly which changed the environment fast. But from the gold value it also brought its crimes along with it. Murder and mayhem came along with it.
This picture shows the different ethnicity of California. Because the news of gold wasn’t just herd by the white man. People from Hawaii came over the came from Asia and Native Americans started to mind too. Another reason why California’s population grew so quickly in the 1840’s. It also shows the way in which they mined. They used rivers and sifter because they didn’t have the technology to create a strip mine like today. To brake rocks they had to use picks not diamond tip blades like we have today.
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During the heat of the civil war, many of the southern colonies began to succeed from the union. This separated them from the once united, states. The nation was broken; the north against the south. Nearly all in the year of 1861, the confederate states declared orders of secession. This meant that they wanted to break unity ties with the nation. The confederate states each declared that they wanted to be their own separate nations, with their own government. This of course caused great conflict because it was literally the breaking point of the United States. There seemed to be no real winner at this point in the civil war. Not until, the legendary battle of Gettysburg, where the north saw a winning end to the war. It was towards the end of the war that Lincoln won re-election and made a second inaugural address that was as powerful as the first. This time it was a plea for peace. Not only for peace but equality among black and white citizens as well. Lincoln mentions in his closing statement, “With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds…” this simply means, we must bring the country back together.
DeleteThese two primary sources reflect the civil war because the secession of the confederate states is the low point of the war whereas Lincolns re-election and reconstruction process is when the future is looking brighter and positive for change.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/10/sports/michael-sam-college-football-star-says-he-is-gay-ahead-of-nfl-draft.html?_r=0
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http://www.policymic.com/articles/81437/8-u-s-states-have-anti-gay-laws-strikingly-similar-to-those-in-russia
Right now gay people are the minority focus in America. It’s official. Some places in America are excepting of gay rights, while others are strictly against it. In Russia they are so strictly against it, that they will arrest a person for being gay. In some southern states, they are very similar to Russia in their way of handling gay rights. They have anti-gay laws which promote arresting people for being gay. Just recently Michael Sam openly admitted to being gay and could become the first openly gay player to play in the NFL. The players took it well and supported him, and didn’t give him a hard time, so there still are some people who don’t absolutely hate gay people, but give those people rights and a chance like every other person deserves. This connects greatly in depth with the topics we are learning in history today. In history we are learning about the rights that the African Americans had before and after the civil war and the emancipation proclamation. Like the articles, there are people who are taking to the African Americans like Russia and the southern states took to gay rights. They hated it and did everything in their power to hate against them and keep it from their state and country. The people who favored it like Michael Sam’s teammates lived in the North of the United States, while the ones who discriminated and hated the African Americans lived in the south. All in all the comparisons between the gay rights case and the African American case from long ago are strikingly familiar. We just have to learn to accept it and move on, because looks like the African Americans helped us out in the long run, why not give the gays a chance as well.
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