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I watched the Founding Fathers documentary, episode 3. The subject of this film is the founding fathers such as, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Ben Franklin, and John Adams and how they all became ‘founding fathers’ of the United States. The film begins by discussing Thomas Jefferson and how much he cared about dependence, how he contributed to getting independence, his actions, and his more personal ways of life. The documentary eventually transitions into discussing…

Good morning, you are tuning into Category 4 news, today we will be talking about Benedict Arnold the American Traitor, the Sons of Liberty, the Advantages of the British and Americans, Yorktown, Treaty of Paris, Women’s Contributions, and African American Contributions. Anthony(Benedict Arnold): Benedict Arnold was born on January 14, 1741. He grew up in Connecticut, he also had five brothers and sisters, but one of his sisters died from yellow fever at a very young age. He began his business…

Takisha Garnett History 1301 Enrichment Paper There is a great likeness between the Boston massacre and the Kent State university shootings.Both display an iconic contribution to our American History. One was based on morality and the other was based on monetary benefits, can you decipher between the two? In 1770 The Boston Massacre shooting occurred between the American colony and the British colony. Now, in 1970 the shootings of Kent State University happened which was not the same act nor…

the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books” (Franklin, Pg.9). Words coming from a man who made an impact in the history of the United States. He was a political scientist, scholar as electricity and attracted interest, inventor of the lightning rod and other useful artifacts. An honest man who was also efficient in public and the leading architect of the independence of the Unites States. Benjamin Franklin was perhaps the most beloved figure of his time at home and the…

Billy Sunday Was born in a poor house hold, and later he was sent to a soldier school. And went to work when he was 14. even though in the end he still sucseded. becoming a baseball player and later a famous evangelist. but life didn’t always smile for him when his sons comitted suicide and had a mid heart attack.Though the docter told him to quit preaching, because it was bad for his health.But Billy sunday continued to serve God until the last days of his life. And this is why Billy Sunday is…

Thomas Paine once said, “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” He mentions this in his pamphlet “The Crisis” which was meant to persuade the weary soldiers of the Revolutionary War to continue fighting. The true meaning of the quote is that the more difficult the obstacle is, the more rewarding the outcome will be. Hester’s struggles in Scarlet Letter, the colonists’ setbacks in the Revolutionary War, and Mary and Katie’s problems in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn reflect Paine’s…

are: William Leete Stone’s Matthias and His Impostures, Margaret Matthew’s Matthias. By His Wife, and Gilbert Vale’s Fanaticism. Stone’s account was published a little while after Matthias was convicted and it’s written from the point of view of Benjamin and Ann Folger. The pamphlet written by Margaret Matthews tells of her own experiences with her husband. Finally, Gilbert Vale’s two volumes were written from the point of view of Isabella Van Wagenen. The authors of The Kingdom of Matthias had…

The world is a vast place, filled with numerous individuals, all characterized by unique qualities. John Stuart Mill, a 19th century writer, philosopher, and businessman who placed great importance on those who find and offer new ideas, theorized that the two primary qualities in life were originality and genius. An original person is one who is independent of all others and is unique in all that they do, and someone who displays genius is unusually intelligent and creative. In “Genius and…

Luke Losoya October 19, 2017 HIST 1301-079 Professor Jonathan A Lee Causes of the Revolution from Two Contradictive Historians The American Revolution was a unique phenomenon. Many people from complete opposite ends of colonial societies united to gain independence from the sovereign Great Britain, who during the time was the military and economic powerhouse of the world. Historians often find themselves disagreeing over the causes that joined colonial forces together. Gary Nash and Bernard…

Thomas Paine was an emigrant from England who wrote a persuasive pamphlet in 1776, known as Common Sense. this was a political argument for American Independence, written to the colonists in hopes to get them on board with separation from Great Britain. Samuel Seabury was “a native of Connecticut” who wrote a series of pamphlets arguing against Independence, in 1775, to the colonists, to prove why they needed to stay joined with Great Britain. While some may think the two authors, Thomas Paine…