Revolutionary Tribunal

The book I chose to read was Alexander Hamilton- The Outsider by Jean Fritz. This book was rated at a 9th grade reading level but could be read in grades 6th- 8th depending on the students. There was quite a bit of information crammed into 144 pages and therefore can be useful in many different ways throughout the different age groups, even in the grades below 6th if the information is just taken from it. This being said, this book can be incorporated in many different ways in the classroom. As…

A very familiar theme continues to hover over Mexico specifically when it refers to the economic woes the political system continues to mismanage. Politicians that simply run for office to help themselves, while screwing the Mexican over time and time again. It is a behavior that has been in place since the Spanish conquistadors took over, by introducing new policies that benefited the white European while physically, morally, economically, and culturally destroying all social progress for the…

other European countries had on Mexico’s social and political culture. Throughout Mexico’s existence, it has always suffered from political and economic instability due to corruption. For instance, the one party rule of the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) for 71 years has been an example of the political corruption in Mexico. Although Mexico has improved it’s political institutions in 2000 by electing Vincent Fox, who is not from the PRI and ousting the PRI majority from the Chamber…

Army Counterintelligence (CI) field started in the Revolutionary War, when President George Washington first practiced the art of CI in the Continental Army. After the Revolutionary War, the government viewed the CI field as being necessary only during the time of war, and soon decommissioned the field. This method of activation and deactivation continued even throughout some of US history’s greatest wars: Indian War, War of 1812, Civil War, World War I, and World War II. With each activation CI…

November 2016 Alexander Hamilton: The Man That Could’ve Been a President. Born, not of this land nor of privilege, Alexander Hamilton rose from nothing. To start, he became a self-starting student, the winning factor to George Washington’s revolutionary team, and an official Founding Father; the uniter of the United States of America. “Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint (Hamilton).”…

This changed him from a pacifist loyalist to patriotic spy, it also is known that Robert Townsend and Abraham Woodhull knew each other when they were younger and were at the same boarding school that was run by Woodhulls brother-in-law. Washingtons mission for Townsend was to stay in New York and collect useful information, by blending in and mixing with officers and refugees as well as going to coffee shops and public places. Since Townsend is a reporter for the New York Royal Gazette, a pro…

During the Revolutionary war General George Washington would use Spies, and surveillance to scout and maneuver the continental army around the British forces as well as pay people off and mislead the British to gain the advantage. There are many instances where Washington’s use of the espionage tactics helped them gain the upper hand. After the war Washington would become obviously become president where he would later ask congress to fund Intelligence Operations. Eventually in the following in…

The American Revolutionary War occurred between Great Britain and the colonies of the New World. The colonies declared war and sought their independence from Great Britain as a new nation. The war was the combination of the political and series of coarse policies that Great Britain brought onto the colonies that led to the revolution. The American Revolution was led by great leaders that had different assessments of our new nation. These leaders who became our founding fathers had different…

structure to the fame and notoriety of her husband’s ride. His acts as a Patriot were both impressive and influential, but it was his—and other men of the time’s—absence that had the greatest affect on the role that women had in the outbreak of the Revolutionary…

1770s and 1780s saw the American Revolution uniquely in contrast to the revolting settlers in the north. At first, they viewed it as another royal war, battled for land and fortune. In the end, however, the Gulf Coast turned into the main site of Revolutionary War fights that was outside the revolting provinces yet later turned out to be a piece of the U.S. The range had an assorted populace that incorporated the British, French and Spanish, individuals of African plummet, and Native Americans.…