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Ms. Pember Sugar Act Mark Up Grading Rubric

__Reflection__
I think that the Sugar Act was unreasonable. The British goverment is treating the people in England better than they have been treating the people of America. They are still part of their people, yet they are giving them less rights than those people in England. It's unfair that it has to be sugar too, because everyone uses sugar. It's only normal that it will cause an uproar for the colonies if they are suddenly taxed for something they use everyday. They call colonists "minions" too, in the Preamble of Sugar Act.



__Stamp Act__ __October 15, 2010__

__Stamp Act Opening Activity:__

 * //Describe what you think is the difference between a **__direct__** and **__indirect__** tax in 1-2 sentences//

I think the difference between indirect tax and direct tax is that direct tax is passed onto by law by the officials while indirect tax is when they would gradually affect the people. Direct tax would be all the people while indirect tax may just be not so known, just affecting a certain group of people.
 * Pair/Share your answers with a partner. Reach a consensus on what you think is the correct definition.
 * Using a trustworthy search engine, look up both key terms and fix your answers based upon what you learn. Cite the websites from where you found your information.
 * Give a modern day example of a direct tax and a modern example of an indirect tax.

Definition: Direct Tax: a tax that is given to the person you have to give it to and not to any other person Example: Income taxes Indirect Tax: giving the tax to a person who will later give it to the authorized person whom you were really supposed to pay (giving your tax to someone else first to pay for you) Example: Cigarette taxes Indirect Tax Direct Tax

The rich people would be more directly affected by the Stamp Act. Lawyers, doctors, and other people who have to write and send letters and other documents would have to buy stamps. They would use it more than the poor, who are probably working in the fields and would rarely get to write and send letters. They wouldn't buy them, so it's mostly the rich. They would have to buy it repeatedly and it is the rich who would have less money and get upset.
 * What class of people was more directly affected by the Stamp Act (Rich or poor)? Explain.

The colonist felt that since the British had not discussed this with their legislatures and officials and simply just put this in effect. They would think that if they were to just take this tax now, there would be heavier taxes in the future. There was no approval from the colonists for this tax to happen.
 * How did the Stamp Act raise concerns among the colonists about Britain’s right to tax them?



__October 26, 2010__

 * Paul Revere's Engraving **
 * Alonzo Chappel's Lithograph**

===**Compare Paul Revere's engraving to Alonzo Chappel's lithograph of the Boston Massacre by answering these questions for each.** ===

1. What time of the day does it look like this event is occurring?
 * Paul Revere's: Day
 * Alonzo Chappel's: Night

2. Describe the actions of the British soldiers to the right of the picture, what are they doing?
3. Describe the crowd to the left of the picture, what is happening to them?
 * Paul Revere's: The British were the ones raising their weapons against the colonists, as if meaning to hurt them
 * Alonzo Chappel's: The British were backed up against a wall, raising their weapons in defense from the enraged citizens


 * Paul Revere's: The colonists were injured and held their hands up in surrender, as if they were the innocent ones
 * Alonzo Chappel's: The colonists were holding their weapons up, as if they were threatening the already retreating British

4. Identify Captain Preston and describe what he appears to be doing. 5. What could be the reason for these two very different pictures? 6. If you looked at this picture how would you describe the events of the 5th of March? 7. Do you believe this picture depicts a massacre? Why/why not? Boston Gazette
 * Paul Revere's: Captain Preston is in the back, commanding the British soldiers to shoot
 * Alonzo Chappel's: Captain Preston is in the front, trying to calm down the rioting crowd
 * They were drawn by different people before and after the court case was held.
 * I would describe the event as bloody and that even though both sides have their excuses, none of them are innocent.
 * No, because neither side is innocent. Bullying and harrassing is a form of violence, which is what the colonists committed and of course, the British shot and killed people, which made them tainted too.

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Treason - going against his/her own govenment or country Example: Hurting the soldiers or vandalize property Do you think that the colonists were commiting treason? No, it may not. Since the British government doesn't even think of the colonists as their own citizens, then those citizens aren't really going against their own government. Why did the First Continental Congress meet? It first met because they wanted to discuss acts to get back their rights from the British. They were prepared to go against the king and converse about how to do so. They are people who strongly believed that all of the actions by the British were violating their rights as British citizens, so for themselves and all of the other victims (other colonists) they met up to describe how the Intolerable Acts was the last straw and that they must act now, making a force of minutemen and signing the Declaration of Rights.
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