Final essays

Essay #1

In history they is a Boston masacre. They was 5 people killed in it they was colnists. The conicred men discharased and thumds branded. There was 3 kid that thorow rock at them. The colonies was mad at British for it.

If the kid did not come up the Britsh sloder and did not thorow rick at him. If the sloder pay the barber on time the kid would on come up. They will not be a problems. The colonists will not hate the british as much. we would not have as many people fihting for us.


We would still be part of Brtish. We would of had to fight linger for the britsh to give up. The history will be different, the goverent we would not have 50 states. We would not have a independant country.


Essay #2

The wars is neccsiary. The Indian would of killed us. The french would of got some of american. We would not have a big history. We woukd not have american.

Wars are neccsiary in u.s history. King Phillip's war King phillip cap on run from the american and we killed king Phillep. The french and Indian war French and Indian figth for land. American revolution the u.s fiter the Briter and win to be Independant for are country. We would not be were we are now.

The Iraq war . The Iraq noke donw the twind towereds. They us they kids to fight for them. They us squasder bander on u.s. They put land minder out to killer us.

Valley Forge

Dear, Father

I'm in Valley Forge. It is cold it is in the 20s & 30s out. They was 13 days of rain and snow during first six weeks. We live in 16x14 foot log hut share it whit 12 men. It was smoke in it. The floor is dirt and some sort of cloth covering for the door. The money was worthless to people. We did not have much food. We eat fire cake was simply a flour and water batter fris on a griddle. They was not much clothes to wear.

I do not like to run. I think Washington was a chicken by run. Washington have Steuben drill the men to make tham beeter fiter. He persaude the men to stay to fiter whit him.

The revolution is good and bad. It good becase the are becoming a independant county. It is bad of the people who are dieing. It is long time of people who fiter for they county.

Book Report 4

MY BROTHER SAM IS DEAD
By James Lincoln & Christopher Collier


It was April of 1775, when the revolutionary war begin. The Meeker family owned a Store and Tavern in the town of Redding Connecticut. There was father, mother and two son’s Sam and Tim. Sam was in college at Yale and Tim was home helping them run the family business. The family hadn’t seen Sam since Christmas. They were surprised to see him come home in a uniform. He said that they the Minutemen had beaten the British or what they also called the Lobster Backs in Massachusetts. Captain Benedict Arnold was the captain of Sam’s group then. Sam came home to steal his fathers brown vest gun so he could go back and fight. He knew that father wouldn’t approve of him being in the war or taking the only gun they had.


Over the next few years the war grew closer to Reddington. It was really hard time as the war put a stress on buying goods and materials for there store. Officers of the rebels showed up to the houses in Reddington demanding all there weapons. Father said he didn’t have any as his son stole there only gun to go fight in the war. The rebels didn’t believe him, they scunned his nose.

In November 1777 Tim and his father had to travel to New York to buy supplies for the store and it was a hard travel. On the way they found people to escort them so they wouldn’t get caught by the enemy. They weren’t so lucky coming back to find a escort so father would ride ahead of Tim. Tim had the wagon and the cows they had bought. With father ahead of him, father could worn Tim of any trouble. Tim hadn’t seen his father for a few hours. Tim Knew something was wrong. Tim was very nervous looking for anything out of the way and trying to see his fathers horse prints. When he did spot the mess in the snow Tim looked around for his father but no sign. Tim went as fast as he could to home to see if father was there. Mother and Tim learned that father was taken prison in New York. Tim tried to find Sam to tell him about father. If Sam came home he would usually stay at the Reeds house with Betsy. Mother and Tim learned that father died in prison of a disease.

December 3, 1778, Sam came home with General Putman’s Troop, they were building huts to live in not to far away. Sam would sneak to see mother and Tim. When Sam was home one time he told mother and Tim to cut the six remaining cows up and hide the beef before some soldier stole them. Tim didn’t understand, because they were on there side why would they steal from them. Sam tried to explain to Tim that when you are tired, hungry and dirty people will do anything to survive. One night that Sam was suppose to be on duty he snuck off to come home. He was talking to Mother and Tim and they heard a loud noise outside. Sam and Tim went running outside to see two people stealing two cows. Sam told Tim to get the loose cows back in the barn and he went after the thief’s. Tim went running to his brother after he got the cows back in and saw the two thieves cuffing Sam. Sam what’s going on. They are going to say they caught me stealing the cows. Colonel Parson put Sam in prison for cattle thief. This would mean he would get shot to death. Mother and Tim tried to convince them it wasn’t Sam but they would not listen because Sam was suppose to be on duty. Tim told mother that he was going to go break Sam out of jail. Mother said she could not bear to loose another son so please don’t go. Tim said sorry but I have lost father, I must try to save Sam. That didn’t work, they had already moved the prisoners for the next day to be executed. Tim watch the next day as Sam was shoot. Mother didn’t go she couldn’t bring herself to.


When the war ended Mother and Tim sold the tavern and moved to Pennsylvania. Tim got married and had children. They built a tavern there, mother never really got over Sam’s death. She refused to serve any continental offices that come into the tavern. Tim talked to his children about father and Sam. How the war had changed many lives and hoped that it would never happen again.







By Zack Frost

Exam 4 essays 2

The stupid Lobster-backs are no good for nothing. They take our money by there taxes and they have our freedom by we have to listern to the king And we are 3,000 mi across the ocean. They got are money by oour money we gove tham and not giving spanding all on them selves. We are not in England on more we sood have our own on government. The people we vote on should be the leaders of are new country.



I see America being a peacesul place after the war is over and we have freedom. We will make it biger on expand it are colony.

Exam 4 essays 1

It happened on March 5, 1770. They was 5 people that dead on that night. Some people said the British shoot fist and some said the that they was rock throw at tham. I think the people are at fault by throwing rocks.

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Revolution and War

1763-1789

Revolution Notes

1763—Proclamation Act

The proclamation act craed a lind for they can not go over the appalachian.

1764—Grenville Acts (direct tax)

• Sugar (molasses, wine)

• Stamp

• Quartering

• Currency

Virtual/ Direct Representation

They 1st taxs the colonies. They need mony from the 7 year war.

1765—Stamp Act Congress

• Sons of Liberty
• Samuel Adams
• Paul Revere
• John Hancock
• Propaganda
• Boycotts
• Lobsters (Lobster-backs, Thomas Lobster)

The 1st time they oraginize them safe agond brantin.

1766—Declaratory Act

It eract the Grenville act and said that briant can do waeer

1767—Townsend Acts (indirect tax)

• Charles Townsend
• Writs of Assistance (search warrants)
• Revenue used to pay Royal officials in the colonies
• Tea Act (glass, paper, paint) support British East India Company

The 2st saed of taxs.

1770—Boston Massacre

• March 5, 1770
• Local reaction (primarily)
• 5 dead colonists
• John Adams defends British soldiers/5 exonerated-2 convicted
• Convicted men discharged and thumbs branded

It made tham the colonies was mad at British.

1773—Boston Tea Party

• November 30, 1773--Dartmouth sails into Boston Harbor
• December 16, 1773--Tea dumped into harbor
  
• 340 chests of tea dumped (value of 10,000 British pounds)

It made British mad it cosh 10,00 British pound.

1774—Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts in Britain)

• Close the port of Boston
• Shut down Provincial and Town Governments
• All offices appointed
• Named General Thomas Gage as Governor
• Gave all western lands north of the Ohio R. to Quebec, allowed Catholic Church to practice

On gracd goting the mony, Britain want to pond mass.

1774—1^st Continental Congress

• September to October (7 weeks)
• Carpenter’s Hall, Philadelphia
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• New England—John Adams, Paul Revere, Silas Deane
• Virginia—Washington, Patrick Henry, Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee
• Pennsylvania—John Dickenson, Joseph Galloway (Plan for American council under Parliament, to avoid war)
• New York—John Jay, James Duane
• Maryland—Samuel Chase (future Supreme Court Justice), Charles Carroll (richest man in Maryland, Catholic)
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• Declaration of Rights—rejects Parliamentary authority over internal colonial affairs, colonies manage own defense, united aid to Boston if Intolerable Acts continue, absolute boycott of British goods to be enforced rigidly

The colonies help echeder in a crisis.

1775— January

• William Pitt urges Parliament to withdraw troops from America because the idea of managing the colonies through force was “too ridiculous to take up a moment of your lordships’ time”

Willam Pitt preicet the war.

1775—April 19 Lexington and Concord

• Gen. Gage sends 700 men to Concord to seize the powder supplies
• Paul Revere and William Dawes raise alarm the night before
• Town of Lexington is on the way to Concord
• Minutemen are assembled on the town common
• “Shot heard round the world”
• 18 colonials killed and the rest run away
• British march on to Concord and find the munitions were moved overnight
• Minutemen ambush the British the whole way back to Boston
• 430 Redcoats make it back to Boston
• 30,000 Colonists surround Boston

The 1st batter of rev.

1775—May

• Gen. Howe, Gen. Clinton, Gen. Burgoyne
• 5,000 British troops
• Ethan Allen, “Green Mountain Boys” seize Fort Ticonderoga
• Henry Knox uses canon to lay siege on Boston
• Benedict Arnold (Connecticut) takes Fort Crown Point to impede an invasion from Canada

The war is billeding.

1775—May 10, 2^nd Continental Congress

• Sam Adams pushes for Independence
• John Dickenson (Penn.) urges restraint
• Agree to form Colonial Army
• Delegates unanimously agree to Washington as Commander of Continental Army (John Adams suggestion)

We from a arm.

1775—June 17, “Battle of Bunker Hill”

• Actually fought on Breed’s Hill
• Gen. Howe leads assault without canon support (his canon had been matched with wrong-sized cannonballs [Amherst at Ticonderoga])
• Militia waited to within 30 yards (some say 15 yards)
• Militia target British officers
• Militia ran extremely low on ammunition
• On the third assault, led by Gen. Howe, British troops overtake the colonial position
• Britain losses almost 1000 men (about half the attacking force)
• Colonials lose about 500 men

Bunker Hill covind they can win.

1776—January, Common Sense

• Written by Thomas Paine
• 120,000 copies sold in three months

It propasanda.

1776—March

• Gen. William Howe evacuates Boston
• July 2, lands in Staten Island, New York (Loyalist base)

1776—Declaration of Independence

• June 7, Richard Henry Lee (Virginia) introduces legislation to declare independence from Britain
• Before voting on Lee’s proposal Congress appoints five-man committee (chosen by John Adams) to draft a formal Declaration of Independence (Thomas Jefferson, 33, does most of the writing)
• June 28, Declaration presented to Congress
• July 2, Congress approves Lee’s legislation to declare the United States of America independent of Great Britain
• July 4, Congress officially adopts the Declaration of Independence
• The Declaration intended to:

1. Undermine loyalty to King George III
2. Outline basic principles of representative government
3. Establish the “right” of rebellion
   

All colonies are united toagder.

War

1776—August, Brooklyn Heights, New York

• Largest Naval group Britain will launch until the 20^th century
• British victory, city falls to England
• As winter came “sunshine patriots” left the American Army
• Initial colonial enlistments due to expire

It is Washington 1st batter, amorg got killed or copter. Washington going to have to run.

1776—December, Battle of Trenton

• Howe believes war almost won
• 1,400 Hessians stationed at Trenton
• Colonel Rall (Hessian) builds no fortifications
• Washington “Crosses the Delaware” Christmas night
• 2,500 men; 18 artillery guns
• Surprise attack at dawn
• 106 Hessians killed, 918 captured
• No colonial casualties
• Washington retreats in secret to avoid Gen. Cornwallis counter-attack

Wahington 1st win. Because Washington run so much to cepe people to fight of him.

1777—January, Princeton

• Washington ambushes British troops
• Colonial victory establishes this will not be a quick war for Britain

Washington 2st win not majer.

1777—September-October, Saratoga

• Gen. Burgoyne plans a three-prong attack on colonials at Albany
• Plan does not consider the terrain, forcing British troops to march through swamps, lakes, hills and forests full of rebels
• Two of the three “prongs” never arrive (Howe goes to Philadelphia instead, St. Leger retreats to New York afraid of Benedict Arnold)
• Sept. Burgoyne crosses Hudson River
• Oct. 17, Burgoyne surrenders
• Establishes American Army as real threat
• Helps secure open French Alliance
• Turning Point of the War

1777-1778—Winter at Valley Forge

• Under-funded troops
• Low morale
• 10,000+ troops
• 4,000 troops listed as “unfit for duty” due to poor supplies (boots, blankets, coats, etc.)
• 2,500 troops die of disease (typhus, typhoid fever, dysentery, pneumonia)
• George Washington mentioned a lack of shoes so severe that the men's "marches might be tracked by the blood from their feet”
• Local farmers would sell produce to Brits who could pay cash

lower tip of the war Washington do not know the Frand are going to hlep. We do not quit.

1779—February, Vincennes

1780—August, Camden

1780—October, Kings Mountain

1781—October, Yorktown

• British Gen. Cornwallis
• American Gen. Washington (also “Mad” Anthony Wayne, Baron von Steuben)
• French Gen. Rochambeau (also Marquis de Lafayette)
• Essentially a French Naval victory
• Last significant battle of the war

British Quit it is to much mony. (pill was Right)

1783—Sept. 3, Treaty of Paris

• Britain recognizes American independence
• America gets all land from Atlantic coast to Miss. River, Great Lakes to Florida
• Fishing rights to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and off the coast of Newfoundland
• America must pay debts to Britain
• American congress would “earnestly recommend” all Loyalist property returned (States ignore this request)

IT tack 2 year to sidel they argue who got was from Britain.

John Adams

John Adams was born in Bay Colony, Massachusetts on October 30, 1735. He was a cousin of Samuel Adams. He later went on to represent the state of Massachusetts. He became identified with the patriot cause early on; as a First and Second Continental Congress delagate. He wife was Adigail Adams. John hate Alexander Hamiltom. Their children were: Abigail (1765–1813); future president John Quincy (1767–1848); Susanna (1768–1770); Charles (1770–1800); Thomas Boylston (1772–1832); and Elizabeth (1775) who was stillborn.

In 1765 Adams rose to his importance as an opponent of the Stamp Act, as well as being responsible for obtaining the loans from the Amsterdam money market which was necessary for the conduct of the revolution. Also in 1765, he delivered a speech to the governor in which he strongly indicated the Stamp Act invalid, because Massachusetts had no representation in parliment had not agreed to it. In 1774 Adams was sent by Massachusetts to the first and second Continental Congresses were he continued from 1775 to 1778. Adams denounced the deism of political opponent Thomas Paine, saying, "The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity, let the Blackguard Paine say what he will.

Adams served in diplomatic roles in France and Holland during the time of the Revolutionary War.He helped negotiation of the treaty of peace. 1785 to 1788 he was minister to the Court of St. James's,later returning to be elected twice as Vice President under George Washington.


Adams was appointed onto a committee with Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Robert R. Livingston and Roger Sherman to assist in drafting a Declaration of Independence.

John Adams is trained to be a lawyer. So he know how to argue on sife. HE have be doing it so he could got freedom.

I think John Adams got good covered in the thing he did for the actions in the american revolution in they fight for freedom. They is of siffe abuot him on alot of sufe.