...Axia College Material Appendix A Midterm Exam • Access the Week Four Electronic Reserve Readings located under the materials section of the student website. • Read this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings. • Write a paragraph of approximately 100 words for each of the following questions. 1. Using the critical thinking skills you have gained and the materials provided for this assignment, identify two possible strategies that Thomas Hutchinson or Samuel Adams, or both, likely used to develop and improve his thinking prior to taking a stand and acting according to his beliefs. I believe that Thomas Hutchinson and Samuel Adams saw that there were imperfections in some things and saw that not only they had dissatisfactions, but others as well. They decided that things needed to change and they were willing to do that for themselves and others. They decided that if they wanted it done they had to do it themselves. Thomas and Samuel, along with many others, realized that the way things were being done was not benefiting them like it should have. They believed that somebody needed to do something to change it and it just so happened to be them. 2. Explain the importance of building a foundation for critical and creative thinking when evaluating historical events such as the Boston Tea Party. First, you have to think about what you are looking for and you have to find the truth behind it all. Another words...
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...By 1763 Hutchinson was the most influential man in the colony, but he had also become a target for James Otis and Samuel Adams. Hutchinson agreed with Adams and Otis on matters of policy; he did not think that the governor could issue writs of assistance, nor did he think Parliament should pass laws such as the Sugar Act or the stamp tax. In 1764 the assembly had tried to send Hutchinson to England to make its case against the Sugar Act. He believed these were unwise measures, but unlike Adams and Otis, Hutchinson insisted that Parliament had a right to tax the colonists. He would never agree with their assertion that Parliament’s power did not extend beyond England. If that were the case, the colonies must become independent. Neither Otis nor Adams was willing to make the case for independence in the 1760s, but Hutchinson saw where their arguments were going. He wanted to avoid independence and have Massachusetts prosper as part of the British empire. Since Adams and Otis both denied that they were interested in independence, Hutchinson interpreted their almost violent opposition to his ideas and policies as motivated by political self-interest rather than political...
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...section of your student website. Read this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings. Write a paragraph of approximately 100 words for each section listed below. 1. Using the critical thinking skills you have gained so far and referring to the materials provided for this assignment, identify two possible strategies that Thomas Hutchinson or Samuel Adams likely used to develop and improve their thinking as those historical events unfolded prior to taking a stand and acting according to their beliefs. Two strategies’ that Thomas Hutchison and Samuel Adams used were weighing out all the pros and cons and solicitation. Thomas Hutchison felt that all ties need to be maintained with England to keep the peace between them and their colonies. Therefore weighing out all the pros and cons to increase the trade for the colonies so that it would put them in a better position financially, could have been a strategy they likely used. Basically the pros and cons show the positive and negatives of taxation without representation. This could have likely been determined through solicitation of opinions among the colonists, in which a number of them agreed with the radicals. 2. Explain the importance of building a foundation for critical and creative thinking when evaluating historical events such as the Boston Tea Party. The importance of building a foundation for critical and creative thinking when evaluating historical events is to consider the facts of the...
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...Harbor (Thomas Hutchinson, 2011). He could of also used the construct pro and con arguments (Vincent Ryan Ruggiero, 2009), which he would have made two lists one which consist of pros and the other to consist of cons to let the ships clear the harbor. I believe he came up with more cons then pros and that is why he did not allow the ships to clear Boston Harbor (Thomas Hutchinson, 2011). 2. The building of a foundation for critical and creative thinking when evaluating historical events as the Boston Tea Party is to find what the truth is? Gathering all the factual information of events that lead up to the Boston Tea Party. Also gather all the factual information that happened during and after the Boston Tea Party. To find the truth it may need to be investigated, verify that the report where the information is received is correct (Vincent Ryan Ruggiero, 2009). Opinions and judgment also need to be weeded out of the information that is gathered. A clear understanding of cause and effect relationships is crucial to the responsible formation of opinions (Vincent Ryan Ruggiero, 2009). Once all that information is in hand a clear judgment and foundation can be found. 3. The basis of the moral judgments that were made by Samuel Adams were he was against the raising of revenue tax without representation. He also drafted a protest against the Stamp Act in 1765 (Samuel Adams, 2011). I believe Samuel Adams made these decisions to not support the Tax Act and to not support the Tax Raise...
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...The American Revolution occurred because of Great Britain's failure to adjust to conditions brought on by the growth and development of the colonies, and by the aggravation of a breakdown in the political and economic harmony that existed between the colonies and their mother country. America was a revolution force from the day of its discovery. The American Revolution was not the same thing as the American War of Independence. The war itself lasted only eight years, but the Revolution lasted over a century and a half and begun when the first permanent English settlers set foot on the new continent. Insurrection of thought usually precedes insurrection of deed. Over the years such ferment had occurred in the thinking of the colonists that the Revolution was partially completed in their minds before the first shot was fire or musketball began to fly. The American Revolution had its beginnings in the French and Indian war. For seven years, Britain battled the French and Indian nations in the colonies. Where the colonies militia fought beside the troops of the British army and learned war first hand. After winning the war, Britain had a huge debt to pay. To pay these expenses, George Grenville, who was secretary of Treasury in England, came up with a plan. He reasoned that the debt should be paid by taxing the colonies. After all the war had been fought to protect their land, that is the land of the Ohio River Valley. However, even before the French and Indian War had ended the...
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...The American Revolution occurred because of Great Britain's failure to adjust to conditions brought on by the growth and development of the colonies, and by the aggravation of a breakdown in the political and economic harmony that existed between the colonies and their mother country. America was a revolution force from the day of its discovery. The American Revolution was not the same thing as the American War of Independence. The war itself lasted only eight years, but the Revolution lasted over a century and a half and begun when the first permanent English settlers set foot on the new continent. Insurrection of thought usually precedes insurrection of deed. Over the years such ferment had occurred in the thinking of the colonists that the Revolution was partially completed in their minds before the first shot was fire or musketball began to fly. The American Revolution had its beginnings in the French and Indian war. For seven years, Britain battled the French and Indian nations in the colonies. Where the colonies militia fought beside the troops of the British army and learned war first hand. After winning the war, Britain had a huge debt to pay. To pay these expenses, George Grenville, who was secretary of Treasury in England, came up with a plan. He reasoned that the debt should be paid by taxing the colonies. After all the war had been fought to protect their land, that is the land of the Ohio River Valley. However, even before the French and Indian War had ended the...
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...The American Revolution occurred because of Great Britain's failure to adjust to conditions brought on by the growth and development of the colonies, and by the aggravation of a breakdown in the political and economic harmony that existed between the colonies and their mother country. America was a revolution force from the day of its discovery. The American Revolution was not the same thing as the American War of Independence. The war itself lasted only eight years, but the Revolution lasted over a century and a half and begun when the first permanent English settlers set foot on the new continent. Insurrection of thought usually precedes insurrection of deed. Over the years such ferment had occurred in the thinking of the colonists that the Revolution was partially completed in their minds before the first shot was fire or musketball began to fly. The American Revolution had its beginnings in the French and Indian war. For seven years, Britain battled the French and Indian nations in the colonies. Where the colonies militia fought beside the troops of the British army and learned war first hand. After winning the war, Britain had a huge debt to pay. To pay these expenses, George Grenville, who was secretary of Treasury in England, came up with a plan. He reasoned that the debt should be paid by taxing the colonies. After all the war had been fought to protect their land, that is the land of the Ohio River Valley. However, even before the French and Indian War had ended the...
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...Boston by British troops leading to the Boston Massacre, which provided martyrs for freedom and gained support for war throughout the colonies. The taxation of Britain on the American colonists was the start of a series of events leading to the Boston Massacre. Taxes started being imposed after the French and Indian War,...
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...US constitution, Fulfillment or Betrayal of the ideal of the American Revolution The American Revolution is often portrayed as something that it is not. For example it did little to almost nothing when it came to social matters, like the topic of slavery or women’s rights. What the colonist wanted in the beginning of this revolution was simple, they asked for the restoration of English liberty, equal representation, and equal English values that English men had in Great Britain. The idea of breaking away from the crown started to emerge in the 1770’s. After the French and Indian war, Great Britain started to tax the colonist heavily, and in 1772 Samuel Adams wrote The Rights of the Colonist which move the colonist towards a more Lockean way...
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...their lives for liberty. These people would help spark the revolution. These sparks would be helped to be ignited by the Sons of Liberty’s actions, what happens in Concord and Lexington, and the pamphlet called Common sense questioning the king’s actions. The Sons of Liberty’s action will help light the spark that helped our revolution.The now famous “tea party” was organized by an Son of Liberty named Samuel Adams. That night of the “tea party” was the Sons of Liberty’s protest of the 1773 Tea Act. Later on in 1775, Some local militiamen ran into some British soldier ,which marked the first shoots of the Revolution, so two Sons of Liberty raced on horseback to warn the residents of the British(“Sons”). The Sons of Liberty’s contribution helped spark the revolution with the “tea party” , the midnight ride, and many other ways....
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...Bunker Hill was in Charleston, Massachusetts and was one of the signifying battles to start the war. On June 13, 1775, the leaders of the colonial forces nearby Boston learned that the British were planning to send troops out from the city to fortify the unoccupied hills surrounding the city, giving them control of Boston Harbor. In response, 1,200 colonial troops under the command of William Prescott stealthily occupied Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill. Even though the colonists lost, this was a hard fight for the British, and it showed them that the colonists are going to put up a fight. Right before the Battle of Bunker Hill, on June 15th, George Washington became Commander in Chief of the Continental Army, chosen over John Hancock. Following many battles, including wins and losses for the colonists, came the Virginia Declaration of Rights on June 12, 1776. This was a declaration from the people of Virginia, which informed Britain again of what they wanted as rights and set the precedent for the declaration of Independence to be made in the following weeks. Following this declaration of June 28th was a battle that is close to home, at Fort Moultrie, in South Carolina. It was first called fort Sullivan, then changed to Moultrie. The Battle of Fort Moultrie was a major win for the patriots. On July 4th, 1775, many of our founding fathers settled on a document that would...
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...the interest of Europe’s most powerful colonial powers. The result of this conflict would not only determine the fate of the thirteen North American colonies, but also alter the balance of colonial power throughout the world. John Dickinson and Patrick Henry believed that independence without an alliance in place would put America at the mercy of France. Samuel and John Adams believed that other nations would not sign alliances until America declared its independence and that the offer of trade would bring alliances without political commitments. European support varied greatly in both its form and intensity. For France, support of the Americans meant strong, direct action. This included heavy shipments of military supplies and significant financial support. Later in the war, French action took the form of direct military intervention as French troops landed in North American and French ships began to roam the Atlantic coastline. In fact, the argument exists that if it were not for the influx of French troops and ships, towards the end of the conflict, the...
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...would have been even worse by taking two voyages instead of three. Samuel de Champlain during the 17th century would have lost the backers without a fur trade with the natives of Acadia and Canada, they would not have learned the pelts of native canoes, snow shoes, and toboggans. French religious orders of the same sex would not cast their lot with Champaign, and the trading company's governed new France before 1663. Without Indian fur traders, no seigneurs would have been granted, or the St. Lawrence or marriageable king's girl shipped out to Canada nor Quebec and Montreal would have been founded. Without a native barrier a set back on colonial enterprise would have been a decline in Indian labor in a few parts of the productions, for example domestic economy of the Southern New English when the Indians supplied and captured Pequot and King Philips wars, another is the whale fisheries of cape cod long island and Nantucket, and finally wheat farming lumbering rice tobacco would have missed by the English entrepreneurs engaged in them. Without Indian land English colonists would have encountered opposition to their choice of prime locations for settlements only from English competitors. The new England style of living would have been drastically different without the Indians by military and moral that of Indian war parties this effected native life and English colonists would have been persuaded by other arguments to cast their lots together. Another is the new England puritans would...
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...prosper, trading guns for furs with the local Indians. 17. Where did the French settle? Describe how/where French trappers went as well as Catholic missionaries and their activities. The French settled Quebec, overlooking St. Lawrence river. French trappers recruited and worked with Iroquois and other natives to get their furs. Missionaries worked hard to convert the natives. They also settled in Detroit, Illinois, and Louisiana. 18. Describe the early conflicts Britain faced in America before the French and Indian War. (King William’s War, Queen Anne’s War, War of Jenkins’ Ear….) The British colonists fought French fur trappers and their Indian allies. They had to defend their Northern colonies, and they also tried to take Quebec and Montreal. Neither side found it important enough to send actual troops. Another war, over Jenkins’ ear, pitted France and allied Spain against Britain. It was confined to the Caribbean Sea and Georgia. 19. Explain the CAUSES, COURSE and CONSEQUENCES of the French and Indian War. (How did it start? What happened in the war? Name important leaders and describe their role. What were the effects of the war?) You may wish to make a chart or write in paragraphs. Be detailed. Causes Course Consequences French collide with British. The French were trying to stake their claim over modern Pittsburgh, and were moving in with Fort Duqesne. However, the land had already been given away. This lead to a conflict between the French and English. British...
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...completed your study of this chapter, come back to this section and place a check mark beside any of the statements with which you then agree. Use the column entitled “Reaction.” Note any variation in the placement of checkmarks from anticipation to reaction and explain why you changed your mind. Anticipation Reaction _____ 1. _____ 1. _____ 2. _____ 3. _____ 4. _____ 5. _____ 6. _____ 7. The British government usually left American colonists to make their own laws pertaining to local matters. American colonial trade was severely crippled by British trade laws. The European Enlightenment had little influence on the thought of American colonists. Because they were part of the British empire, colonists were constantly involved in England’s imperial wars with France and Spain. Parliament taxed the American colonists as a way to express its authority over them, not because it needed. the money. Colonists protested the Sugar Act and Stamp Act as violations of their rights as Americans. Colonists protested the Tea Act because it threatened to raise the price of tea. _____ 2. _____ 3. _____ 4. _____ 5. _____ 6. _____ 7. LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading Chapter 3 you should be able to: 1. 2. Define the basic assumptions of the British colonial system and describe its operation. Assess the impact of the Great Awakening and Enlightenment on the spiritual and intellectual life of the colonies. 42 3. 4. 5. Describe the...
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