Communist view of U.S. Constitution

1. The information given to us from the Soviet Union textbooks obviously include the authors personal opinion. The text book is basically stating the United States sucks, and offers no right what so ever to the people living there. According to this text book our right don't exist: " The freedoms exist even now on paper, but they are constantly violated". Clearly this author does not agree with anything that The United States has ever done, nor accomplished;" They dealt harshly with the revolutionary workers". The Soviet Union writers went back into the United States past just to make us look worse.

2. - "This law recognized the rights of citizens to freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, and freedom of conscience.
- "The war of Independence did advance to development of the United States".
Opinions
-"A number of the basic principles of the new American Constitution and the state constitution were manifestly aimed again the masses of people.
-"The land the previously had belonged to the Indians was proclaimed the property of the new states and put up for sale.
The entire article is clearly against the United States Constitution, the writer of this excerpt clearly does not agree with what the United States has done.

3. I think that what this criticiser had to say was all very blown up and I do not agree with any of it. I think that the Constitution gave us order and no our rights are not constinatly voilated like the writer of the excerpt said.

Bill of Rights

Most student's would assume that something as "powerful" like the bill of rights would not effect them at all what so ever. When really the bill of rights has a much larger effect on our education than most of us know. Not only does the Bill of Rights effect our actions in school but also our appearance as well as all of our rights we receive as a student. The bill of rights states everything that we can and can not do while on school grounds, therefor it defines all of our actions. The bill of rights kind of serves as a handbook for schools all over the United States it has a much larger impact on not only our schools but also our education than most people think. It effects everything that we do; our actions and the repercussions for those actions. Without the bill of rights our schools would be run with far less order and rules would be hard to maintain seeing as there is nothing really as powerful that could be enforcing them.

Electoral College

The electoral college does great things to help narrow down political parties. As well as giving each state their own sense of power however, currently the electoral college seems to becoming a bigger and bigger issue. Seeing as it depends on the population per state to determine the number of electoral votes for each state, is leaves the smaller states with a huge disadvantage. For the people living in small states they are left feeling completely powerless, as if their votes count for practically nothing. Bigger states are given more attention from each party of the representative's running for the presidency.

The electoral vote over powers the popular vote which in the past on several occasions (1887,1888,2000) has made a huge difference in the person elected president. Seeing as it's the people that the president is working for the people should be able to have a large say in who they are electing as their new president. I feel that the electoral system should be removed if not modified. It's something that can be fixed so why not fix it? Clearly there are several people that seem to find an issue with it so why not make the people happy and change it . We have the technology to make it possible to have each vote count. This would give the people comfort in knowing they were each able to have their own say in the elections. Also, this could very well attract more people to the voting poles.

"Liberty the American Revolution" take two

During the American Revolution, alliances made a extensive impact on both sides. The British unlike the Americans had the Germans backing them up from the gecko, helping them not only in the field but with finances as well as supplies and other necessities needed to win a war. Benjamin Franklin was a very inspiring person who had a positive effect on many people. The Americans were extremely lucky to have someone like him on there team, seeing as without his presence the chance of the French forming an alliance with them was rather slim.

From the start of the war the British solders have brought everything they got to the table and stepped up to every battle, with backing down not an option. However the fact that they not only had German solders on there side, they also gained the loyalty as well as knowledge of the of the Native Americans. Who not only knew the land exceedingly well, but also disrupted their hunting and fighting tactics that were very different from anything Britain had ever used before,which caught the Americans extremely off guard.

Having all the alliances seemed to give the British an ample lead on the Americans however having the Natives join their formation resulted with strong repercussions later on. Jay Mcraie the finance to a Britain general was brutally murdered by a remaining unknown individual, whose actions were blamed on a Native American. The fact that a Native murdered an innocent woman terrified the colonist with the thought of all the things that could possibly happen to them. This thought persuaded many Americans into joining the army offering their own lives for the protection of others.

The murdering of Jay Mcraie unfortunately for the British lead to the growth and strength of the American troops. In most remaining battles of the American Revolution the Americans used their numbers to their own advantage, having more and more of their men show up during the battle which overwhelming the other squad forcing them to retreat. After this murder took place victory for the Americans appeared to become a standard routine seeing as the Americans now out numbered the British two to one.

"Liberty the American Revolution"

At the beginning of the American Revolution it was clear that the Americana's had quite the battle to fight before them seeing as the Britain army was overly prepared upon their arrival and continued to train throughout the summer months until September. The Britain army even recruited help from Germany asking them for their support, which in return brought them Hessions, already trained German solders for 7 pounds a head. While training in America the Britain and German solders felt uncomfortable in the heat along with the massive amounts of bugs and wild creature's that roamed the area where the settled.


George Washington was the head general of the American side which at the start of the war you could barely call an army. The men that were given to Washington were not suitable for the battle that they had to fight. Congress however did not have the power to give general Washington was he was asking for. Finding men that were willing to give over one year of their life to the war was extremely difficult to find. Washington hit rock bottom and began to offer land as well as a salary to anyone willing to sign up for the militia. However there numbers where still small, and the American side was still out numbered to the British two to one.


Battle after battle continues to end with defeat for Americans. With there numbers so low to begin with have a large number of deaths along with casualties was something that the Americans really could not afford to have. A victory for the Americans is really needed at this point in the war in order to not only have mental and physical relief but so more solders will be willing to sign up, seeing as no person wants to sign up for a loosing team. Washington is feeling completely defeated and at this point has really hit rock bottom, and with a chance of victory slim to none continuing to try seems almost pointless.

After almost giving everything up George Washington came up with the ultimate top secrete plan that if follows through and goes as planned will end with victory for America. The day is Christmas the time is three a.m and the location is the Hudson river. Quiet and quickly as possible two thousand five hundred solders cross the Hudson ready to attack the Britain's fort which at the time was being guarded by drunk, sleeping Hessions. By the time Washington and his troups attack the fort the Britains are to

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Olive Branch

The Olive Branch petition was a very well written document, however If I were the king I would not believe a single word of it. The colonist made their petition extremely persuasive, by referring to themselves as "loyal colonist" when really they were hiding in their fear by trying to avoid the subject of war. Basically the colonist attempted to use flattery and what was soon to become broken promises to get the king to appeal all of the acts, and begin to do things in the colonist's favor. If I was the queen, I would not believe this petition for a minute. I mean for starters, it's clear that sucking up was weaved into this entire piece of writing yet while they are praising the king their also informing him that war will begin. Really, the colonist somewhat contradict themselves in this piece, i mean how can you go to war against someone you are "completely loyal to and the leader to you mother country ?"

Boston Act's

Boston Massacre

I feel that Boston's colonists as well as the British soldier's acted disrespectfully. Seeing as the British soldiers were not welcome their to begin with, they acted rather rude in a place they didn't belong. However, the colonist acted very rowdy around the British soldiers, and acted with a violent nature. When going over the event of the Boston Massacre, it's easy to make the British seem at fault seeing as they killed and wounded innocent colonist. However, they were provoked by these innocent colonist, so really both neither party acted justified.

The Boston Tea Party

The Boston Tea Party in my opinion was one of the greatest acts in history. The Boston colonist fought for what they felt was right, however they fought with a cleaver and in an extremely sneaky matter. Seeing as what they did was peacefully and really completely harmless. Nothing was stolen, and anything broken was replaced soon after the event. Which in my opinion lead the Boston colonist's to act justified. Unlike the British colonist whom tried to get away with taxing tea but failed miserably and also got a slap in the face with it. What the British colonist assumed was that the the Boston colonists would fall for their trick of lowering the price of tea and leaving the tax on it. The British colonist thought that their idea was pure genius, I mean who wouldn't except a cheaper tea? Clearly Britain did not think their idea through seeing as Boston dumped 342 chest of tea into Boston Harbor.

The Intolerable Acts

The British colonist's I felt were basically embarrassed, which was what lead to the Intolerable Acts. The Boston Tea Party was a complete slap in the face for the all the citizens living in Britain so they felt that everyone was laughing at the which made them look weak. Obviously no colony wants to be seen as the weak colony so the British revolted with the Intolerable Acts which I felt was completely unjustified. The laws that the British enforced on the Boston colonist were completely ridiculous and unreasonable. Not only did these acts mess up the economy situation but resulted in ruining the Britain economy. Sure everyone should be punished for their actions, but not to that extreme.

News during French and Indain War

Throughout the French and Indian War, the newspaper was a device that helped to keep colonist in tune with what was going on in their surroundings. Without having the all important daily newspaper, no one would have any clue as to what was going on in their towns. Reading articles about the French and Indian War kept readers interested. Seeing as the war was taking place near their homes, as well as held most of the colonist's future's. The daily newspaper held a huge role in every colonist's life. Without the newspaper there would be hardly anything to talk about seeing as the newspaper was what kept the colonist in control of their information. The newspaper was held as valid sources of information for all the colonists. The newspaper let readers feel as if they were on the battle field themselves witnessing everything for themselves. Seeing as many of the readers were spouses to fighter in the war, this either eased the mind or petrified each reader. Thanks to the newspapers of that time period, each American citizen was in a way provided with their own personal information packet.

Join or Die

Benjamin Franklin questions:

1. Benjamin Franklin believed that the French were going see victory, because they acted with an extreme confidence and their enemies did not. The British citizens were cowards and let what happen to other people terrify them. Before they French even had a chance to defend themselves and fight, the British began to flee and abandoned their farms and plantations. Most of the citizens left to go find places were they felt were more safe. Benjamin Franklin predicted the French victory by looking at the obvious. You clearly you can't win a war without confidence which was something that the British did not have.

2. The French and Indian acted with extreme actions towards the British. The French showed no mercy, they acted with violence when trying to murder the farmers along with their wife and children, and also obtain parts of the Britain territory. Seeing as Britain's strong point was their government, the French wanted to take attack that first so the rest would seem nothing less than a cakewalk. In order to take down the British government, the French planned to violate the most Saloom treaties between the two crowns. Also they planned to kill, take, and imprison the British traders.

Cartoon Questions:

1.The Join or Die cartoon was created originally to bring the idea of what politics were to The Pennsylvania Gazette readers.

2. The Join or Die cartoon that was created was extremely symbolic, everything put into the cartoon meant something in a certain way. The animal in the cartoon was a snake which was put their in order to represent the slender size of the colony in 1754. The eight different sections of the snake is to represent the eight different colonies at the time. Each colony was placed on the snake as though it would be placed on a map.

3. The snake that's illustrated on the cartoon is cut into eight different sections. They were put into different sections depending upon which colonies were divided by war. The eight colonies that were in war at that certain time were the colonies that were put into the cartoon.

4. The cartoon was also used as a header for many newspapers during that time period. Seeing as it was the 1700's, it was obvious that copyright were non-existent. Therefor this cartoon was copied and used in many newspapers throughout all of the colonies.

Franklin Cartoon Questions:

1. In this cartoon, Franklin is attempting to express the separation of the colonies along with his opinion on the separation. It's clear that Franklin think's the colonies are not going to be successful, and remain in one piece like the "amazing british" will.

2. Franklin's message "that the Colonies may be ruined, but that Britain would thereby be maimed" did not really turn out to be true. Britain did remain togather, however the colonies did aswell. They eventually evolved into states which still remain intack today.

French and Indain War

1. Prior to the French and Indian War, many events occur ed the caused high tension between the colonist and the British. For example, the many of the colonist became colonist because they fled from their homeland of Britain in order to seek religious freedom. Also, the colonist were treated extremely unfairly by their "leader" seeing as people living in Britain did not care so much for them. All of these acts very easily could have resulted in large amounts of tension that could have resulted in war.

2. Many problems came about from the war. Seeing as it's a war to begin with there is already a problem. Politically, the war didn't so much spilt of colonies, but more like every one outside of their colonies. The war caused large amounts of un- trust between all the societies. Economically, many places could not afford to have a war period, little alone support one and continue to fight in one. America for example was considered extremely lazy, and selfish just because they were not in the proper financial state to support, and give large amounts of money to their army.

3. I feel that if the outcome had differed, that it would most likely have a large effect. Obviously if someone else had one their own rules would have been set, along with boundaries.

Transformation into Slavery

For many years slavery was considered practically as a sin, however during the 1600's everything started to change. In 1619 a Dutch ship lost it's coarse and ended up on the Virginia coast; bringing the fist African Americans to America. Slavery, something almost unheard of in Virginia allowed the new members that were boarding the ship to be baptized, saving them from slavery of any kind. However, when money began to become an important item tobacco became a main part of the colony. Seeing as tobacco was the only form of profit they were consuming labor became a huge issues, which is where indentured servants came into play. An indentured servant signed a contract which stated they were to full fill their required time and which be rewarded with 10 acres of land along with a change of clothes, food, and shelter while they were full filling their years.
In 1640 three servants ran away, two of which were white leaving one black. The white servants punishment was to conitue their jobs, only adding a year on to their time. However the black servants punishment was to become a slave for life, which changed everything. Suddedly people's opinions began to change along with the laws. Massachusetts was the first state to change their laws allowing slavery to be legal. This began a somewhat domino effect on all of the other states whom all began the change their laws allowing slavery to be legal.

Themes of early colonial peroid

I feel that religion was the main theme of the early colonial period. If it weren't for religion the colonist would not have made the voyage to the new world in the first place, seeking their religious freedom. It was also religion that cause Anne Hutchinson to become kicked out of the Massachusetts's Bay Colony. The many religion's that were preached and followed in the early colonial period were a main fixation of every colony. Religion is a extremely reoccurring issue during the early colonial period, for many colony's the church or religion house was the center of the colony.
As well as religion, land disputes were also a major theme during the early colonial period. Between the colonist and the natives land became a huge reoccurring argument. The many land disputes that occurred were the answer as to why so many wars occurred during this time period. Land was seen as power during this period, the more land you obtained, the more power you obtained. Seeing as everyone wanted power this became a huge issue. People were cheated, exploited, humiliated, and even killed in order to acquire land.
Conflict; like religion and land disputes was also a major theme during the early colonial period. Not only was it a major theme but it was extremely reoccurring. Looking into our history books, you learn mainly about war, and not only about the extreme wars but also tiny battles and arguments that took place along the way. If it were for conflict, almost nothing would of been resolved, and we would have nothing to learn in the first place.
The twitter activity that we did in class was a really fun learning experience for me. It was very different from any other assignment that I have ever been given in my previous years of learning. It was cool being able to read every ones opions through a computer and not talking for any entire class. I also felt that it was very less pressure for myself as a student seeing as you had time to think through your answer and then respond.

Captivity Narrative Essay Response

I feel that the main theme was fear. When reading the Captivity Narrative essay, you learn that the life of the colonist was a life a fear. Everything they did or planned was geared toward the war. For example, crops were planted in certain spots and at certain times in order to avoid being ruined by the war. Family's were trained to live, and survive without having the "man of the house" around at all times. It's made clear that not only the colonist, but the Natives as well lived in fear of their land be taken away from them without warning, and also having to go to war; fighting for their lives. Fear was made a main topic on every ones brains living in the New World during this time.

Newspaper Project

The City on the Hill

In the 1600's religion was not only a main priority of each colonist, but also a main priority of each town. The colonist living in England were not practicing their ideal religion, their ideal way. Many of the seperitist (extreme puritans) fled to the new world seeking relgious freedem, hence the main idea of the Massachusettes Bay Colony. The colony was ment to be the "perfect role model" for every other colony to follow in it's footsteps accoring to John Winthrop. Winthrop saw the colony as " a City upon a hill", otherwise known as the perfect colony. He felt that his mission from God was to make this colony, and by doing so it was ment to be the colony every settler wanted to join, a colony that God would be pround of. It was clear that from landing upon the new world an emensie amount of pressure was put on the new settlers to reach perfection.

Anne Hutchinson was a women with thoughts and perserveracnce. She was a smart women who knew how to controll the court room to the best of her advantage. Winthrop felt that everyone colonist living in his colony was to work their way into heaven. Hutchinson on the other hand felt that God's decision had already been made, and what was done was done and there was nothing to be done about it. This caused a huge contraversy, seeing as Hutchinson was secretly holding meetings where she preched her thoughts to anyone willing to listen. Hutchinson was smart and knew what todo to make Winthrop and his colony feel threatend. She used their extreme devotion to God agaisnt them saying if they werent to follow her preching that God would "smite them all" and be left with extreme disapointment.

Though the Massachusettes Bay Colony was based upon religion the colonist as a whole did act hypocrtically while fighting the on going battle against Hutchinson. For example, when the preist agreed that Hutchinson showed signs a pure mental crazyness, they bascially all called not only Hutchinson a lier, but God aswell. Anne claimed that God talked to her face to face and convinced her to come to the perfect colony and change their ways. Which yes, is pure mental crazyness, but goes against their own morales and ideas and forces them to contradict themselfs.

Bacon's Rebellion

I feel that Bacon nor Governor Berkeley handled the situation the right way. Nathaniel Bacon, is a hostile man who turned his opinion into a war. Governor Berkeley, I felt acted as a cowered who didn't handle the situation when it started, like he should have which is why it turned into the state that it did. It is made clear that Bacon despises all Native Americans, and felt that all Native Americans were " wolves who preyed upon our harmless and innocent lambs". As Bacon's issues remained to be unheard and unattended to, his feelings of hate and frustration began to grow stronger as time went on. Seeing as Berkeley refused to supply the colonist with an army of their own, Bacon began to form his own.
Governor Berkeley not handeling the situation when he should of was fourced to deal with it later on when Bacon formed a full army ready to fight the Natives, leaving Berkely completly defensless. This is why I feel that neither Bacon or Berkeley's behavoir and actions were justified because they both acted very selfishly. Berkeley should have helped out his colony from the beggining instead of focusing all his attention on the wealthy colonist. Also, what Bacon did was at first somewhat heroic, however he didn't think of all the innocent Native Americans that he was also killing just to prove his point which was extremly selfish of him. The result of both their actions did nothing but disturb the peace of a entire colony.