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1.After watching the video on the French and Indian War, the Boston Massacre, and the John Adams Miniseries clip where he defends the soldiers, answer the following discussion question. Make sure to include relevant points to your answer and make sure that your information is correctly cited. You must post before you can see the posts of others.
Looking at the ways the French and Indian War contributed to decisions that helped fuel discontent from the colonists, such as the Stamp Act, how do you think this led to the Boston Massacre? Think of how the soldier in uniform represented the image of what they disliked, even if he had nothing to do with it. How could you argue the justification on both sides, the colonists and the British soldiers? Consider human emotions over discontent toward a government body and the ones caught in the middle. "Facts are a stubborn thing," as Adams states in the clip.
2.After watching the videos on the Boston Massacre, Lexington, and Concord, answer all prompts in the following discussion question. Make sure to include relevant points to your answer and make sure that your information is correctly cited. You must post before you can see the posts of others.
How did the colonists manage to triumph in their battle for independence despite Great Britain's military might? If any of these factors had been different, how might it have affected the outcome of the war?
3.After reading about Ona Judge in the link above, along with the other information for the week, how did the process of creating and ratifying the Constitution, and the language of the Constitution itself, confirm the positions of African Americans, women, and Indians in the new republic? How did these roles compare to the stated goals of the republic? How would you describe the gap between upholding what was written in terms of freedom to what was being upheld by those doing the leading at that time?