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 What did you find that you agreed with from the British perspective? What did you disagree with? Why?  10/5/10 - Write a response to the British Article you read explaining why you agree/disagree with the writer's points.

 I think the colonists were being unfair to complain about such little tax. The other colonies have to pay way more tax than they did but they didn't rebel against their own countries. I'm siding with the English here saying that the colonists were greedy and ungrateful for all that England did for them. England defended them during the war, and right when the war's over, the colonists won't help England recover economically.

 British opinion of Paul Revere   Paul Revere warned the colonists that the "regulars" were coming. He gave away the surprise attack by the British soldiers.

 Do Now 10/6/10:  Perspective - The point of veiw of someone. What that person thinks about something.

1. How will this impact your life? 2. How would you react to this? 3. Which group of people would this tax hurt the most? 4. How could you avoid paying the tax? <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% #cabb8e; display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 192pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #603412; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">5. What actions could you take to change the situation? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> New candy tax: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Its stupid! I don't want to pay an extra 10 cents because the government is worried about people getting fat. People should know when they should or should not eat or drink candy without having the government tell them that they're fat.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://www.ietherpad.com/VsTzLFxdvy - First pad <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] - Sugar Act <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] - Hurley Cant Dunk

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> HW- 10/7/10 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Its important to acknowledge other people's perspectives even if you disagree with them because you might get a deeper insight about the topic. Instead of only thinking of it in one way, you can see how other people think about it and their opinions on it.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Do Now 10/18/10 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> A stamp is a sticker that people put on letters that is worth a certain amount of money. People put stamps on letters to mail.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Describe what you think is the difference between a **__direct__** and **__indirect__** tax in 1-2 sentences.// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> A direct tax is a tax you know you're paying. An indirect tax is something you buy that is more expensive because it was taxed.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The term **direct tax** generally means a tax paid directly to the government by the persons on whom it is imposed.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> An indirect tax is a tax that the state makes you pay for consumption, expenditure, privilege. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> HW: Read and mark up summary of stamp act. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Summarize taxes <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">media type="custom" key="7258313"


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What class of people was more directly affected by the Stamp Act (Rich or poor)? Explain.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How did the Stamp Act raise concerns among the colonists about Britain’s right to tax them?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> I agree with the <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">media type="custom" key="7276581" <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> I think the stamp act is a direct tax because the colonists are paying the tax themselves. The tax is paid directly to the government. by the colonists who used the paper. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">media type="custom" key="7276771" <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">media type="custom" key="7291387" <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> How does it seem the colonists felt about the Stamp Act?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> I think the colonists absolutely hated the Stamp Act because of the violence in which they reacted to it.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> How do you think they might react to the imposition of this law?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> They thought it was extremely unfair that they were being taxed without anyone representing them in Parliament. The colonists thought that in the future, the British would levy more and more taxes on them without them being able to protest against it and get their opinions heard because there was no-one in Parliament who knew and cared about their opinions. I think they will get violent (mostly because my history teacher told me so) and go out and kill people. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">media type="custom" key="7290957" <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">media type="custom" key="7294241" <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Do Now 11/3/10: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The colonists responded to the Townshend acts by boycotting British products. The British say that the boycott was decreasing sales in the colonies and profit, so they repealed the Townshend Acts, except for the tea tax, in 1770.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> In this picture, all it shows is the British soldiers in red aiming and firing their guns at the colonists, who seem to be doing nothing. There is a person in the back with a sword that lloks like he's ordering the soldiers to shoot. It depicts the British as the bad guys.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> In this picture, it shows a colonist attacking the British soldiers with a club, and the British soldiers are firing into the crowd of colonists. It depicts the colonists as the bad guys and the British soldiers are just trying to defend themselves.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> I think the British soldiers will be found guilty because all of the jury members are from Boston, and they're at a trial of British soldiers who shot into a crowd of colonists. The jury will obviously try and get the soldiers sent to jail for killing Bostonians.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> HW: 11/3/10 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> I do not agree with the jury, but I'm not surprised that they declared the soldiers not guilty. The soldiers killed people. They should be jailed for murder. But I can see why the jury thouight that the soldiers were innocent. The colonists were extremely stupid to yell fire at the soldiers, and confusing the soldiers.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Do Now 11/5/10 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Can violence ever be justified?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Yes, I think violence can always be justified. The negotiation and "talking it out" that people always preach almost never works. You need to punch and kick to get people's attention. For example, a bully, or an army leader. You talk to a bully, and the bully ignores you. You get the snot beaten out of you. You might be able to get out of the situation if you used violence. Or a someone like Hitler. We waited years sending complaints to him while he started taking over Europe. If we used violence from the start, then we might have been able to save millions of lives.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> First Continental Congress: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">media type="custom" key="7544543"

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Map I see:It means <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Colorful lines- <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Where the British and Patriots traveled.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> City names- <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> A map of Boston, where most of this took place.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Dots along the lines- <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Battles, important events, deaths.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> I think that the reason that the colonists want to kill people from their own country because they didn't consider themselves British anymore, since their rights were violated.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Vocab: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Arms and ammunition-//

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Weapons(muskets), guns, bullets, stuff for fighting and war.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Minutemen- <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Colonial soldiers who kept a firearm and served in the militia to defend against Indians and French, who could be called out "in a minute"//

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Militia-// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Citizens that serve part time in the military and are called out periodicaly in emergencies//

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//British Regular-// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//British foot silders who wore red and were good fighters. Foot soldiers of the British army.//

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Alarm Riders-// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Men who called minutemen into action. Warned minutemen of "attacks"//

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Paul Revere-// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Silvedrsmith who was famed for his midnight ride. Was an alarm rider//

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Joseph Warren-// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Doctor who was the only leader who was NOT WANTED by the British. Treated British soldiers, and took information from British soldiers.//

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">media type="custom" key="7557149" <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> I think the British were at fault for the battles, because they were the ones who fired into the rebels first, and the rebels fired back at the British. But for the reason that the British marched towards them in the first place, I blame the colonists who irked the British enough to have them send thousands of troops over to maintain control.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Colonists shot at the British because they believed that they had no way out and that the British were going to kill them eventually, so they took up arms and wanted to die with a fight.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> April Morning <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> I see/hear- <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> It means

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> British army checking carts <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The British know that the colonists are going to take up arms against them.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> British army lining up <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> They are preparing to march towards Concord

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> People gathering around a person-counsel meeting <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> They are making a plan about what to do and how they should react if the British come.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Paul Revere came and warned people, rings bell and calls militia <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The regulars are coming!

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Drum beat-from colonists <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The colonists are preparing to fight

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Colonists lining up on green <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> They dont want to obstruct British, just to show that they are there and have weapons.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Town minister standing in front of men <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Town minister is a very important and trusted man, calms colonists.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> British moving towards them with bayonets <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> British dont want to kill colonists, just to scare them away

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Shot from off of the green <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> It was not the colonists' fault that the British shot at them, just the person that shot at the British off of the green. The colonists lined up had no intention of killing

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> HW 11/17 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Unless the government was completely out of control, and was ordering the army to kill everyone, I probably would not take a gun and start shooting at them...I'd probably run...If the government was completely out of control, and were ordering the army to kill everyone, then for the greater good of the people, I'll go shoot at some people with big guns. Otherwise, it seems really stupid and suicidal to go up against an army with much greater power than me. MUCH greater. And MUCH bigger guns than me. And MUCH more people than me. And MUCH more experience than me. The colonists must really have been convinced that the British were going to kill them, to be willing to go up against the whole army.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Do Now 11/18

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> I think the Lexington Training Band stood on the green because...

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 1) They wanted to show the British that they were willing to take up arms against them, and they wanted to show the British that they had weapons, and that they oppose them.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 2) The militia wanted to be ready just in case that the British wanted to start a battle.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I do not think that the outbreak of the American Revolution was inevitable.I think the American War For Independence could have been prevented at many stages.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It could all go back to the Navigation Acts and and before, to the salutary neglect, when the British were ignoring the colonies and hoping that they would thrive by themselves. If the British had kept firmer control over the colonies, then I think the colonists wouldn’t have formed and become used to the idea that they owned themselves, that they governed themselves, and that no-one else could control them. If the British had controlled them from the start, the colonists would have gotten used to British rule and wouldn’t start opposing Parliament when Parliament passed the Navigation Acts so that the colonies would remain profitable to them. The British should of thought and passed those laws and not have just let the colonists go their own way and let them do whatever they wanted.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I think the American Revolution could have also been prevented if the colonists had been more understanding about the British predicament after the 7 year's war.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> I think another stage that the War could have been prevented was when parliament started passing taxes on the colonists: The stamp act, the sugar act, and the townshend acts. With every new tax that British passed, the colonists compla ined about not having a say in Parliament. If the colonists were just offered a few seats in Parliament, all of the protests and complaints that the colonists had could have been stopped. Giving a few seats to the colonies wouldn't have changed much in Parliament, containing hundreds of people. The colonists would have a say in what goes on, the British still can keep control over the colonies, and the their government wouldn't be disrupted much.

While most of the colonists were peaceful protesters, a group of extremists called the Sons of Liberty were responsible for many of the violent and illegal activities going on. If the British were able to control this group, much mayhem could have been avoided.2

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