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    On July 4, 1776, colonists risked their lives and the lives of their future generations to fight the most powerful nation at the time, Great Britain. The period around 1960’s America was known as the Civil Rights Movement where African Americans risked their lives and self-respect facing ideologies that had no moral or ethical grounds. What these two events have in common is that people gathered together to fight for the right to participate in their system of governance: to participate in a…

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    John wilkes booth was born on May 10, 1839 somewhere in Maryland. Booth was the second youngest of 10 siblings. John's father's name was Junius brutus booth. Junius was a well known actor, but he had a bad habit for heavy. John was also raised on a farm with all of his sibilin. John's farm did have slaves, and the slaves run the cotton fields. The reason why John Wilkes Booth made an impact on our history. Is by killing Abraham Lincoln in april 14, 1865 right after 10:00. Booth had killed…

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    The American Revolution was a memerable period of time due to many people changing and alot of events happening. Around 1607 Jamestown Settlers arrived in April, creating the first permanent british settlement. After that North America had a overflow of british colonists it reached an estimated 28,000 in 1640. Acouple years after it multiplied more than 6 times the estimation was at 213,500 people. The first American Newspaper was published in Boston. Mostly elaborating Polotics, Events…

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    of as limited due to the fundamental rights and wrongs everyone has known since kindergarten, however there is an overabundance of approaches to elucidate this skill. For instance, in the autobiography A Most Awkward, Ridiculous Appearance by Benjamin Franklin, he provides a brief story on his arrival to Philadelphia and then explains how he conducts his thirteen moral virtues that he plans to accomplish. Franklin’s approach with this piece can be related to a prescription, such as applying one…

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    In the book 1776, David McCullough desribes the most important year in the revolutionary war, with a focus on George Washington himself. He “was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair” ( McCullough). The author shows Washingtons heroic battles, his early life, education, marriage to Martha Custis, his life as a weathly Virgina planter and his love of architecture. This book is about the history of the United States…

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    Emerson’s Closing Paragraph in his Speech The American Scholar During the 1800s in the years following the American Revolution, the United States and its people were still strongly connected to Britain. This European country was a strong leading power, so America had yet to establish their individuality, and rather, continued to conform to Europeans’ past ways. In his speech The American Scholar, Ralph Waldo Emerson connects this time period to men and scholars alike; he urges them to break…

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    In Redcoats and Rebels, the author Christopher Hibbert reference’s in a very vivid historical context of the American revolution. Mr. Hibbert compiles large amount of historical data about two major opposing sides in the American revolution. He portrayed the British as the courageous ‘red coats’ and portrayed the American’s as the ‘rebels’. His work is complied in twenty-five short paragraphs, divided into three parts each in chronological order. Christopher Hibbert, wrote this narrative of…

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    right time for independence but questioned if they were actually going to do it. This is why Thomas Paine and his pamphlet “Common Sense” became a major role into changing the way that America was leading up to. Thomas Paine was a friend of Benjamin Franklin who founded a job for Paine in Philadelphia where he wrote “Common Sense”. In his pamphlet he wrote about his convincing arguments for independence for the colonist which has shown the change on how the colonist made their decisions…

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    Being very much into History, I studied the men Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson is considered to be one of the founding fathers of the U.S., as he played a major role in the drafting of the Declarations of Independence. Another important fact about Jefferson was the fact that he was elected as governor of Virginia during the American Revolution. After the Revolution, he was appointed as minister of France. He also served as the country’s very first Secretary of State, its…

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    Dinner with a Legend Benjamin Franklin was once one of the smartest and most influential person of his time, Benjamin Franklin was one of our founding fathers a man who led us to a new era and united us all as a country. Benjamin had more than one occupation but succeeded as a writer and a scientist. Mr. .Franklin was an intellectual man whose inventions are still used in present day, Mr. Franklin unknowingly had a great impact in our lives, and Mr. Franklin was involved with politics…

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