I have always been loyal to the King, but is this how a king treats his subjects, by drawing weapons on them on a hillside? The colonists did not start this fight; they are here in response to the threat.
Every real man wants to defend his homeland from threat, in my opinion. Until today I thought of my homeland as Great ritain, and I saw my allegiance to King George. ut there are King George's representatives ready to aim their muskets at Mr. Cooper, and old Mr. Pike, and our only doctor, and a lot of other good people. Look there, I see Matthew Cooper, my fellow apprentice and best friend. It seems he has made up his mind.

I am of two minds about the Stamp Acts. On the one hand, the ritish did send soldiers to protect us and fight for us when the French threatened (Kreamer, PAGE).…...

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Author not given. "The Boston Massacre." Boston Gazette and Country Journal, March 12, 1770. Accessed via the Internet 2/23/05.  http://personal.pitnet.net/primarysources/boston.html 

Kreamer, Todd Alan. "Sons of Liberty: Patriots or Terrorists? How a Secret Society of Rebel Americans

Made Its Mark on Early America." The Early America Review: A Journal of People, Issues and Events in 18th Century America, I:2, Fall 1996.

Stanley, Kevin. "Soldiers of the Colonial Militia." The Early America Review: A Journal of People, Issues and Events in 18th Century America, III:3, Winter-Spring 2001.

By studying the American Revolution, children will gain a sense of how 'young' America is, in comparison to other nations, and why such issues as individualism and taxation remain such an important part of the American civic discourse today. Being able to identify major British and American figures of the revolution is essential because people like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison continue to play such an important influence on our image as to what constitutes an 'American' leader in every election. Children must understand these leaders as imperfect individuals, not as icons. Understanding the American guerilla warfare tactics in the major battles of the Revolutionary War help show how America was able to challenge the British army's superior numbers and firepower.

Explaining New Jersey's critical role in the American Revolution is important in understanding exactly how America's independence was won can bring history to life for young children because…...

More precisely, anthropology studies suggest that African-American communities represent some of the strongest human gatherings in the world precisely because there is a sense of unity in suffering (Jenkins, 1997). Seeing the complete isolation and rejection from and by the white community the African-American communities gathered around and against a common evil which was the white communities and the state. Therefore, the emotional element played an essential role for the way in which the African-American communities developed.
Also, religion played an extremely important part. Their belief in the final absolution and the eternal resolution of all evil deeds motivated their community and succeeded in keeping the community united. This is one of the reasons for which then and now the church is such a significant symbol in the African-American community.

Discuss how demographic patterns have reshaped your understanding of Puritan families and the communities they created.

The issue of religion in the…...

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Bell, N.S. "Pathways of the Puritans." Old America Company. Framingham, 1930.

Dore, Gilbert. Why The Loyalists Lost. Archiving Early America. 2008. 14 April 2008  http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/winter2000/loyalists.html 

Elson, Henry William. History of the United States of America. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1904.

Jenkins, P. A history of the United States. New York: Palgrave, 1997.

Slavery Insurrections and Revolutionary ars
Revolutionary ars vs. Slavery Insurrection

Uprising is a common thread throughout history. henever one group is oppressed by another the inevitable outcome will be a revolution. In fact, the very term revolution is defined as, "a radical and pervasive change in society and the social structure, especially one made suddenly and often accompanied by violence." (Dictionary.com). Throughout history there are many examples of various violent overthrows. Among the list the two most prominent that come to mind are revolutionary wars and slavery insurrections.

The American Revolution is a prime example of a radical change that required violence. The American Revolutionary ar happened between the years of 1775 and 1783 and marked a new era in governments (Middleton 20). After being ordered and taxed into poverty by England, the colonies determined that the only way of ensuring the nation's success was to overthrow England and break free as its…...

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French, Scot. The Rebellious Slave: The Image of Nat Turner in American Memory. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004.

Gay, Kathlyn. Mao Zedong's China. Twenty-First Century Books, 2007.

"insurrection." Online Etymology Dictionary. Douglas Harper, Historian. 04 Mar. 2013. .

Middleton, R. American Revolutionary War. Longman, 2012.

John Shy and Revolutionary War
John Shy raised the question of how the American Revolution could have been successful at all against the greatest military and economic power of the 18th Century and one that had a longer imperial reach than any other. Yes in the end Great ritain gave up its North American colonies after the defeat at Yorktown in 1781 and the collapse of Lord North's ministry. Over 200,000 men fought in the Continental Army at one time or another and perhaps even more in the local at state militias, an enormous number in a country with a white population of only about two million. In addition to the conventional battles that have been well-covered in the traditional histories, there were a far larger number of skirmishes and ambushes by local militias and irregular forces that made ritish control impossible outside of large towns and garrison areas. Throughout North…...

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Rauch, Steven J. "Southern (Dis) Comfort: British Phase IV Operations in South Carolina and Georgia, May-September 1780." In Richard G. Davis (ed) The U.S. Army and Irregular Warfare, 1775-2007. Washington, DC: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 2007, pp. 33-58.

Shy, John. "The Military Conflict Considered as a Revolutionary War" in Stephen G. Kurtz and James H. Hutson (eds) Essays on the American Revolution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1973. pp. 121-156.

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Ibid, pg. 157.

"General Nathanael Greene." Historic Valley Forge. 2006. Internet. Retrieved March 14, 2009 at http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/served/greene.html.

"Brigadier General Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox." The American Revolution

Homepage. 2004. Internet. Retrieved March 14, 2009 at http://americanrevwar.homestead.

A com/files/marion.htm.

Ibid, Internet.

10 Cheaney, Janie B. "Daniel Morgan." 1998. Internet. Retrieved March 14, 2009 at http://jrshelby.com/kimocowp/morgan.htm.

11 "The inning of Independence, 1777-1783." American Military History, Chapter 4. U.S.

Army Military History. 2001. Internet. Retrieved March 14, 2009 at http://www.history.army.mil/books/amh/amh-04.htm.

12 Ibid, Internet.

13 Ibid, Internet.

14 Ibid, Internet.

15 Ibid, Internet.

16 Ibid, Internet.

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Bicheno, High. Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolutionary ar. UK: Harper Collins, 2003.

Brigadier General Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox." The American Revolution

Homepage. 2004. Internet. Retrieved March 14, 2009 at http://americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/marion.htm.

Cheaney, Janie B. "Daniel Morgan." 1998. Internet. Retrieved March 14, 2009 at http://jrshelby.com/kimocowp/morgan.htm.

Heathcote, Charles . "General Nathanael Greene." Historic Valley Forge. 2006.

Internet. Retrieved March 14, 2009 at http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/served/greene.html.

McAllister, J.T. The Virginia Militia in the Revolutionary ar. estminster, MD:

Heritage Books, 1990.

Moran, Donald…...

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Bicheno, High. Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolutionary War. UK: Harper Collins, 2003.

Brigadier General Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox." The American Revolution

Homepage. 2004. Internet. Retrieved March 14, 2009 at  http://americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/marion.htm .

Cheaney, Janie B. "Daniel Morgan." 1998. Internet. Retrieved March 14, 2009 at http://jrshelby.com/kimocowp/morgan.htm.

military narrative of the American Revolutionary ar is often depicted in clear, bright shades of red, white and blue, with the "Star Spangled Banner" blaring loudly in the background. However, the lived reality of the American Revolutionary ar was often quite brutal and harsh, particularly for the ordinary soldiers in the Colonial Army. The account of the Patriot soldier Joseph Plumb Martin, as related in the book Ordinary Courage: The Revolutionary ar Experiences of Joseph Plumb Martin, (edited by the historian James Kirby Martin), makes this fact abundantly clear.
It is important to note that the editor James Kirby Martin, unlike many chroniclers of the American Revolution both past and present, did not chose to edit the work of a prominent founding father to present a new perspective upon the war. Instead, he chose to look at the conflict through the eyes of an ordinary soldier. Rather than rhetoric about…...

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Works Cited

Martin, James Kirby (Ed.). Ordinary Courage: The Revolutionary War Adventures of Joseph Plumb Martin. Second Edition. New York, 1999.

Martin, James Kirby. First Generations, pp. 165-194.

Revolutionary War, loyalist leaders like enjamin Franklin's son Governor William Franklin, warns of "all the horrors of a Civil War" when advising his constituents to remain loyal to the crown.[footnoteRef:1] Therefore, the American Revolution and the Revolutionary War were self-consciously considered to be a type of Civil War. Furthermore, when the Civil War of the 1860s broke out amid the United States, it seemed that similar dialog was being used to describe the secessionists in the South as what was being used to describe the American Revolutionaries rebelling against the Crown. In President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of 1862, he affirms the will to respond "in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion."[footnoteRef:2] Yet did the Civil War produce, as McPherson claims, a "Second American Revolution," creating changes that were both…...

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The American Anti-Slavery Society. Constitution. December 4, 1833. Retrieved online: http://www.tncrimlaw.com/civil_bible/antislavery_society.htm

Franklin, William. "All the Horrors of a Civil War." 1775. Found in Making the Revolution: America 1763-1791. Retrieved online:  http://americainclass.org/sources/makingrevolution/rebellion/text1/loyalists17751776.pdf 

Jefferson, Thomas. Excerpts from Notes on the State of Virginia (Boston, 1 pages 144-151, 169-171). Retrieved online:  http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/thomas-jefferson/jefferson-on-slavery.php 

Lincoln, Abraham. Emancipation Proclamation. September 22, 1862. Retrieved online:  http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/emancipation.html

Both sides took preventative measures as best they could, mainly by keeping their troops away from those afflicted with the disorder or by inoculating them. Did smallpox have the potential to affect the outcomes of campaigns or the war itself? Certainly the smallpox outbreak did indeed have the potential to affect the outcome of the war. On page 85 of his book, McCandless writes that sicknesses "…killed and incapacitated large numbers of soldiers and felled key commanders at critical moments." ashington and British military leaders alike moved their troops to places that would supposedly keep them from becoming infected.
hy is the terrible scourge of smallpox that affected the Revolutionary ar in serious negative ways not talked about today? It is interesting that many students have not been aware at all of the smallpox issue during the Revolutionary. It doesn't have anything to do with the modern world being less…...

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Fenn, Elizabeth Anne. 2002. Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82. New

York: Macmillan.

Furgang, Adam. 2010. Smallpox. New York: The Rosen Publishing Group.

McCandless, Peter. 2011. Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Fighting as a Black Slave in the Revolutionary War
If I were a black slave fighting in the American War of Independence, I would fight for the colonial rebels, men like George Washington. Even though these colonialists were mostly slave holders, I would view these men as my masters and I would probably feel an allegiance to them in this regard. And even though Washington himself would issue an order in 1775 to recruiters to avoid enrolling negroes, this would not deter me from choosing sides in this conflict, simply because of what I see as my duty in this country. Strictly speaking, I would not see the conflict as one in which I had a dog in the fight, but for the fact that my owner and his people would view the conflict one way or the other, I would view it that way too in order to appear supportive…...

The idea that all human beings were born equal and that as equals and that all had equal rights flew in the face of traditional social norms. In the Old World, social hierarchies determined political and economic status. In the New World, citizens at least had the opportunity to participate in town meetings. The newly bestowed rights and freedoms were not universal, however. Slaves and women were both excluded from the political process, stripped of the liberties granted to white males.
Moreover, the revolution proposed a new form of republican government that was "by the people." The Greeks had practiced a democratic form of government but the Americans extended Hellenistic ideas by fusing them with Enlightenment theory. The Revolutionary War did alter the political landscape of the New World. Rather than be governed from beyond as a colony, the United States asserted its right to self-government....

The ritish came to impose serious taxes as a result of the French Indian war. These in turn were unacceptable to a people which considered itself not to be responsible for the causes of the war. The confrontation had been in fact another matter of European dispute that had to be solved outside the continent in the colonies.
Third, there is a disagreement in the way in which the war was perceived at the local level. The American colonies viewed this struggle as a need for independence from a regime that continued to impose an undemocratic control over its institutions and the lives of the people. On the other hand, the ritish saw it as a rebellion that must be immediately squashed. In its view, it was a war for the maintenance of a certain order, while the Americans viewed it as one of disruption of this order. While the…...

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Brainard, R. (2005) "Shays' Rebellion." 18th century history. 11 June 2008. http://www.history1700s.com/articles/article1120.shtml

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Jenkins, P. (1997) a history of the United States. New York: Palgrave.

The book is constructed on two main theses, the first revolving around the relevance of the Barbary wars in the freeing of the American population and in its formation as stable and confident people. The second thesis focuses on the Tripolitan war played in the formation of the modern American Navy. However the general history courses place little emphasis on the wars against the Barbary States, the naval forces commemorate them and recognize the role they played in the formation of the modern U.S. Marine. A third specification which could be made relative to the book is that, however not implicit, it also presents the historical conflict between the American and Islamic forces, relating as such to a contemporaneous matter, which is not as new as one could think.

"Wars of the Barbary Pirates: To the Shores of Tripoli, the Birth of the U.S. Navy and Marines" is written in a…...

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References:

Gregory Fremont-Barnes, "Wars of the Barbary Pirates: To the Shores of Tripoli, the Birth of the U.S. Navy and Marines," Osprey Pub Co, November 2006

Wars of the Barbary Pirates: To the Shores of Tripoli, the Birth of the U.S. Navy and Marines, Random House,   last accessed on October 1, 2008http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781846030307 ,

" It is course legitimate editorial decision-making to spend less time on one aspect than another writer might invest on that issue; but this points out the way in which Berkin makes her history more like journalism, bringing in as many quotes from a diverse set of speakers whenever she can. It was interesting to know that Jefferson was dead set against the proceedings going private.
Middlekauff (630) writes that by putting their Virginia Plan out first, the Virginians "had framed the terms of the discussion." And for the next two weeks the delegates supporting the Virginia Plan "had forced the pace of deliberations, and, for the most part, controlled the Convention." The momentum was on the side of the Virginians and their supporters; the Virginia Plan called for an executive branch, a judiciary, and a "supreme" legislature - and that the representation in the legislature should be allocated according to…...

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Berkin, Carol. (2002). A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution. New York:

Harcourt, Inc.

Middlekauff, Robert. (1982). The Glorious Cause. New York: Oxford University Press.

War
The concept of war encompasses various different types of conflict. Wars between sovereign nations involve nation states. Regional and world wars involve multiple sovereign nations. Revolutionary wars of independence involve the populations of nations rebelling against or rejecting the continued control national authorities. ivil wars occur when rival regions or political factions within one nation seek formal separation or complete control. Proxy wars are a means by which nations prosecute their competing interests against one another through smaller conflicts involving other nations as a means of avoiding direct military conflict.

Wars between Nation States

Wars between sovereign nations have occurred throughout recorded history, dating back to Biblical times. Generally, sovereign nations go to war when they each have claims to the same land, or natural resources, or rights of passage that each seeks to own or control exclusively. Throughout the Middle Ages and into the early modern age, the European nations…...

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Civil wars occur when different political factions within one nation cannot reach an agreement or reconcile major differences. In some cases, the purpose of a civil war is similar to revolutionary wars because they are the result of one faction's desire or intention to break free from a larger unified nation and to create a new sovereign nation. The American War between the States or Civil War is an example of such a war because the southern states sought to secede from the American nation and to create their own nation where slavery could continue legally as a way of life. The northern states opposed the institution of slavery and had gradually placed more and more pressure on the southern states to give up the practice. In other instances, civil wars occur when one faction seeks to take exclusive power over the nation instead of sharing power or regional control with competing political factions. The Spanish Civil War immediately preceding the Second World War is one such example.

Proxy Wars

Sometimes, nation states prosecute wars against one another through wars between smaller nations. Generally, this occurs when much larger nations want to avoid the devastating consequences of a direct war between them. They may have long-standing conflicts with one another or competing aims and interests about foreign territories and regions. They may seek to achieve their objectives through the use of force but instead of direct military conflict, they act against one another by supporting wars and revolutions in smaller nations in those regions. Throughout the second half of the 20th century, the world's two principal superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union conducted many overt and covert proxy wars in Eastern Europe, Latin America, and in both the Middle East and the Far East. Some of the more notable examples of those proxy efforts in modern times included the Soviet Union's attempt to militarize Cuba and install nuclear missiles aimed at the U.S. supposedly to guarantee Cuba's independence in 1961; the decade-long Vietnam War in which the Soviet Union supported and finances the North Vietnamese while the U.S. supported and financed the South Vietnamese; and the Arab-Israeli wars in which the Soviet Union supported Syria and Egypt while the U.S. supported Israel.

Thesis Statement:

The United States Navy has played a crucial role in shaping the course of history, safeguarding national interests, and upholding global security. Its contributions encompass a wide spectrum of operations, from defending territorial waters to conducting humanitarian missions, demonstrating its unwavering commitment to protecting the nation and its allies.

Arguments/Points to Discuss:

1. Historical Significance:

- Highlight the Navy's origins during the American Revolutionary War, emphasizing its instrumental role in securing independence.
- Discuss the Navy's involvement in major conflicts, including the War of 1812, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War, showcasing its adaptability....

Thesis Statement: The Founding Fathers of the United States were a remarkable group of individuals who, despite their diverse backgrounds and often conflicting views, came together to create a new nation based on the principles of liberty, equality, and self-government. Their vision and determination laid the foundation for a vibrant and enduring democracy that has served as a model for countless nations around the world.

Introduction:

The Founding Fathers of the United States were a diverse group of individuals who came from different backgrounds, had different experiences, and held different beliefs. However, they shared a common goal: to create a new nation....

Key Figures in Shaping American History
Throughout the annals of American history, exceptional individuals have emerged as pivotal figures, steering the course of events and leaving an indelible mark on the nation's trajectory. Their leadership, vision, and unwavering determination have shaped the very fabric of the country, from its inception to its present day.
George Washington (1732-1799): The Father of the Nation
As the first President of the United States, George Washington played a paramount role in establishing the young republic. His unwavering leadership during the Revolutionary War earned him the moniker "Father of the Nation." As President, he presided over the formation....