Starter 9.21: A Significant Omission…..
Read the omitted passage from the Declaration of Independence and answer the following questions:
- To what is Jefferson referring?
- Why do you think Congress removed this from the adopted draft?
"He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation hither … And he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he had deprived them, by murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another."
REQUIRED: Tea, Taxes, and The American Revolution: Crash Course US History
OPTIONAL: If you want to know more about the war itself, here is another John Green video: Who Won the American Revolution? (This one is optional, but recommended: why not learn more? It talks more about how the war played out and the impacts on all the peoples of America at the time)
Respond to these questions on the Google Classroom when you are finished with the video(s).
Name 3 reasons that the colonists were frustrated with Britain.
Name 3 actions that the colonists took to protest British rule.
What major understandings about the American Revolution do you have now that you didn’t have before? Did anything in this video surprise or enlighten you?
John Green says, “If you are going to base your society on philosophy, you should try to found it on ideals that are as inclusive and humanistic as possible--because the people executing those ideals will never be ideal.” What does he mean by this?
NOTE: “An Overview of Rhetoric” reading due dates
This is the hefty reading I handed to your hands on Friday. We will chunk it out as follows:
Through page 7, due Thursday 9.24
Through page 17, due Friday 9.25
Whole reading by next Monday 9.28