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Washington at Valley Forge
1."With 11,000 other weary soldiers"
They have been at war so long that they were tried, and couldn't fight as well.
2."The army was not only starved but naked"
All of the soldiers clothes had wasted it was no good.
3."We had a duty to perform and little or no strength to perform it with"
Washington wanted to finish what had been started.
4."Perishing with thirst"
Martin had ran out of water and couldn't find any, anywhere.
5."Fatigue and thirst, joined with hunger, almost made me desperate"
Martin was very hungry, thirsty, and tired, he couldn't take it much longer.
6."I never knew him to be so anxious as now"
Martha, Washington's wife had never seen him that way in her life until he came back.
7."A dangerous Mutiny"
Washington warned that starve, dissolve, or disperse unless they could change thing to not go through his experience again.
8."Straight as an Indian"
Washington was confident on what he was doing.
9."he had won a hero's reputation years earlier during the French and Indian war"
Washington gain the respect of the people, they even thought of him as a hero.
10"He had the largest pair of hands I ever seen"
Even though Washington was getting older he was still strong.
11."Washington was the unanimous choice to lead the army as its commander in chief"
Washington was the greatest choice for leading any army of choice.
12."He had so much material dignity in his deportment that you would distinguish him to be a general solider and a solider from among a thousand people"
You could tell him apart from thousands of people on his appearance.
13"I am now convinced, beyond a doubt, that unless some great and capital change suddenly takes place..."
Washington wanted there to be more supplies for when he and his soldiers went back to fight.
14."If the army did not receive desperately needed provisions:"
He want for people such as the government to give him supplies.
15."that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity,I do not think myself equal to the command I an honored with"
Washington believes he is not higher than anyone else.
16."Better that any person in the union"
Everyone thought of him as the best person that lived there.
17."I made my escape as fast as I could"
Michael Graham left when the army started.
18."to call myself and be called soldiers..."
Martin was a teen when he became a soldier so it was a shock to be called and call himself a soldier. So he never thought he would become one.
19."which kept my feet from the frozen ground..."
Martin made new shoes for Washington with his old shoes because he knew he was cold.
20."They told me they had found [water] a good distance off, but could not direct me to the place as it was very dark."
The soldiers were all very thirsty and needed to find water as soon as possible.
- Alejandra Bravo
Scott Sinks per.1
Primary source Interpretation Dred Scott V.Stanford
1. Read and discuss the primary source, examining the who, what, when where, and why.
A case, of Scott vs. Stanford, during 1856-1857, in Missouri, because Scott didn't want slaves to be property.
2. Write a summary about the document. explain main ideas.
The document is a trial. The trial is between Dred Scott vs. Stanford. Scott was a slave. He wanted slaves not to be counted as property, but as citizens of the United States.
3. Examine an interesting quotation or sentence and justify why you selected this statement.
"Blacks shall no longer be treated as property but as citizens..."
This quote is important, because it really summarizes the trial, and tells how Dred Scott feels.
4. Write a question you would like to ask about this primary source. You may question the author, event, or character in the primary source.
Was Stanford a slave owner, if so then was he biased?
5. Write your reaction or opinion about this document.
My reaction and opinion made me think about Martin Luther king and slavery times. My opinion is towards Dred Scott in witch slaves should be citizens.
6. Any unique or unusual qualities of the source?
A unique quality of this source is that it is a trial in court and is documented word by word.
7. Who was the author, speaker, or creator of the source?
The source was a trial script so everyone in the trial created the source.
8. For what audience was the source addressed?
The audience it was addressed to was addressed to the jury and to the people of the U.S.
9. For what purpose was the source created?
The source was created to document what had happened at court that day.
10. List three things about this source that are important.
1. It is a document from the 1850's
2. It was a trial taken to court
3. It argued to free blacks
11. What can be learned from this source?
What we can learn from this source is that documenting information is important, and that people should be treated equal no matter who they are.
1: "That the right of suffrage in the first branch of the national Legislature ought not to be according to the rule established in the articles of confederation: but according to some equitable ratio of representation — namely, in proportion to the whole number of white and other free citizens and inhabitants of every age, sex, and condition including those bound to servitude for a term of years, and three fifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians, not paying taxes in each State."
2: "That the right of suffrage in the second branch of the national Legislature ought to be according to the rule established for the first."
3: "That a national Executive be instituted to consist of a single person. to be chosen by the National Legislature."
4: "That the national executive shall have a right to negative any legislative act: which shall not be afterwards passed unless by two third parts of each branch of the national Legislature. "
5: "That a national Judiciary be established to consist of One Supreme Tribunal. The Judges of which to be appointed by the second Branch of the National Legislature."
6: "That the national Legislature be empowered to appoint inferior Tribunals."
7: "That the jurisdiction of the national Judiciary shall extend to cases which respect the collection of the national revenue: impeachments of any national officers: and questions which involve the national peace and harmony."
8: "That provision ought to be made for the admission of States, lawfully arising within the limits of the United States, whether from a voluntary junction of government and territory, or otherwise, with the consent of a number of voices in the national Legislature less than the whole."
9: "That provision ought to be made for the continuance of Congress and their authorities until a given day after the reform of the articles of Union shall be adopted; and for the completion of all their engagements."
10: "That a republican constitution, and its existing laws, ought to be guaranteed to each State by the United States."
11: "That provision ought to be made for the amendment of the articles of Union, whensoever it shall seem necessary."
12: "That the Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary powers within the several States ought to be bound by oath to support the articles of Union."
13: "That the amendments which shall be offered to the confederation by the Convention, ought at a proper time or times, after the approbation of Congress to be submitted to an assembly or assemblies of representatives, recommended by the several Legislatures, to be expressly chosen by the People to consider and decide thereon."
14: "That it is the opinion of this Committee that a national government ought to be established consisting of a Supreme Legislative, Judiciary, and Executive."
15: "That the national Legislature ought to consist of Two Branches."
16: "That the members of the first branch of the national Legislature ought to be elected by the People of the several States for the term of Three years."
17: "That the members of the second Branch of the national Legislature ought to be chosen by the individual Legislatures."
18: "That each branch ought to possess the right of originating acts"
19: "That the national Legislature ought to be empowered to enjoy the legislative rights vested in Congress by the confederation — and moreover to legislate in all cases to which the separate States are incompetent: or in which the harmony of the United States may be interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation."
20: "To negative all laws passed by the several States contravening, in the opinion of the national Legislature, the articles of union, or any treaties subsisting under the authority of the union."
-Sydney Loveall
"Treaty of Peace and Amity between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America."
"His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America desirous of terminating the war which has unhappily subsisted between the two Countries, and of restoring upon principles of perfect reciprocity,"
"Peace, Friendship, and good Understanding between them, have for that purpose appointed their respective Plenipotentiaries, that is to say"
"His Britannic Majesty on His part has appointed the late Admiral of the White now Admiral of the Red Squadron of His Majesty's Fleet; Henry Goulburn Esquire,"
"Henry Clay, Jonathan Russell, and Albert Gallatin, Citizens of the United States; who, after a reciprocal communication of their respective Full Powers, have agreed upon the following Articles."
"There shall be a firm and universal Peace between His Britannic Majesty and the United States, and between their respective Countries, Territories, Cities, Towns, and People of every degree without exception of places or persons."
"All hostilities both by sea and land shall cease as soon as this Treaty shall have been ratified by both parties as hereinafter mentioned. All territory, places, and possessions whatsoever taken by either party from the other during the war,"
"or which may be taken after the signing of this Treaty, excepting only the Islands mentioned, shall be restored without delay and without causing any destruction or carrying away any of the Artillery or other public property originally captured in the said forts or places,"
"and which shall remain therein upon the Exchange of the Ratifications of this Treaty, or any Slaves or other private property; And all Archives, Records, Deeds, and Papers, either of a public nature or belonging to private persons,"
"which in the course of Officers of either party restored and delivered to the proper authorities and persons to whom they respectively belong.
"Such of the Islands in the Bay of Passamaquoddy as are claimed by both parties shall remain in the possession of the party in whose occupation they may be at the time of the Exchange of the Ratifications of this Treaty until the decision respecting the title to the said Islands shall have been made in conformity with the fourth Article of this Treaty."
"No disposition made by this Treaty as to such possession of the Islands and territories claimed by both parties shall in any manner whatever be construed to affect the right of either."
"Immediately after the ratifications of this Treaty by both parties as hereinafter mentioned, orders prizes which may be taken at sea after the said Ratifications of this Treaty"
"is taken after the space of twelve days from the said Ratifications upon all parts of the Coast of North America from the Latitude of twenty three degrees North to the Latitude of fifty degrees North,"
"and as far Eastward in the Atlantic Ocean as the thirty sixth degree of West Longitude from the Meridian of Greenwich, shall be restored on each side:-that the time shall be thirty days in all other parts of the Atlantic Ocean North of the Line or Equator:-and the same time for the British and Irish Channels,"
"All Prisoners of war taken on either side as well by land as by sea shall be restored as soon as practicable after the Ratifications of this Treaty as hereinafter mentioned on their paying the debts which they may have contracted during their captivity."
"The two Contracting may have been made by the other for the sustenance and maintenance of such prisoners."
"Whereas it was one thousand seven hundred and eighty three between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America that the boundary of the United States should comprehend"
~Taylor Loveless
Reflective Solution Journal
Julio Bermudez
Articles Of Confederation
What I did?
I read the articles of confederation, drafted in 1777, by the same continental congress that passed the constitution. This was our first constitution.
What I learned?
Was our first constitution.
Articles became operative on March 1, 1781 when the last of the 13 states signed on to the document.
The Congress was responsible for conducting foreign affairs, declaring war or peace, maintaining an army and navy and a variety of other lesser functions.
Under the Articles each of the states retained their "sovereignty, freedom and independence."
But the Articles denied Congress the power to collect taxes, regulate interstate commerce and enforce laws.
What questions do I have?
Why did they make a constitution if they had the articles of Confederation?
Why did it not work at the begining?
What other types of problems did they face?
Why did they make it during the revolutonary war?
What surprised me?
That it was our first constitution and that people actually had problems with it, I tought that people would actually listen to our first constitution, people would actually follow it but something was missing it did not have a good, and strong central goverment.
Overall Response
What I learned is that the articles of confederation were our first constitution, and that it was the base of the making of the US Constitution. Created during the mess of the Revolutonary war. The Congress was responsible for conducting foreign affairs, declaring war or peace, maintaining an army and navy and a variety of other lesser functions. But the Articles denied Congress the power to collect taxes, regulate interstate commerce and enforce laws. This was one of the ideas that were put in the U.S. constitution.
Eventually, these things would lead to the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. But during those years in which the 13 states were struggling to achieve their independendence, the Articles of Confederation stood them in good stead.
Reflective-Solution Journal
What I Did?
I went to http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=12&page=transcript and read the transcript of the Federal Judiciary Act of 1789. It was a very interesting article in that it described judges part in government.
What I learned?
. Each state is separated into a district which is given its own individual court that represents the Supreme Court (national) for its district
. The courts give a fair trial to all citizens because the act states that to have a stable government people must have the right to speak in a trial
. The courts and judges will decide the punishment of the criminal
. The Supreme court governs the smaller courts and what ever is decided in their must be followed in the other smaller courts
. The Supreme Court is located in the national capital, Washington D.C.
What Questions do I Have?
How does the act affect the other two branches?
Did all the states agree to have this become the judiciary branch of their country?
If some states apposed the act, why so?
Does parts of the article benefit some districts more than others?
If so, does it favor a district's population, economy, people, etc.
What Surprised Me?
. that the act required such a long article to prove its point
. that the act had so many patterns and trends in it
. that the act would have the right to split a unified country into districts for the benefit of the judiciary branch
. people would agree to have such a large and powerful part of government when the people had just experienced in the Revolutionary War how government power isn't the solution
. that the judiceary branch was able to keep so organized
Overall Response:
The Federal Judiceary Act of 1789 organized a well thought out plan for the judiciary branch and its function in government. In addition, it told judges what there part was as a leader in the United States. Lastly, the Act divided the country into districts giving each one a federal court that had to be a representation of the Supreme Court in the nations capital.
Part 1 of Chris De Vito's Dialectic Journal.
1.paying six per centum per annum interest.
That the railroad company must pay a certain amount
2. in this act in relation to the Union Pacific Railroad Company, until said roads shall meet and connect...
The railroad companies and the government are not connetcted until the railroad tracks cross.
3. The United States shall extinguish as rapidly as may be the Indian titles to all lands falling under the operation of this act...
the United States will fall apart if the act doesn't work out.
4.he north margin of the valley of the Platte River, to the western boundary of Nevada Territory, upon the route and terms hereinafter provided...
this is on eof the routes the tracks will go.
5. from a point on the one hundredth meridian of longitude west from Greenwich, between the south margin of the valley of the Republican River
This is where all of the tracks will lay.
6. are hereby created and erected into a body corporate... by the name... of "The Union Pacific Railroad Company"
This is the company
7.An Act to aid in the Construction of a Railroad and Telegraph Line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean. . . .
By using this act, it will help the building of the tracks.
8.the bonds to be issued to aid in the construction thereof shall be double the number per mile first mentioned...
Double the money will be needed for every mile
9.the bonds to be issued to aid in the construction thereof shall be treble the number per mile hereinbefore provided... and between the sections last named of one hundred and fifty miles each,
provisions will cost a lot of money for the government
Part 2 of Chris De Vito's Dialectic Journal.
10.hat for three hundred miles of said road most mountainous and difficult of construction, to wit:
there are difficult places to build on.
11.one hundred and fifty miles westerly from the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains, and one hundred and fifty miles eastwardly from the western base of the Sierra Nevada mountains
they can only build here
12. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California are hereby authorized to construct a railroad and telegraph line from the Pacific coast... to the eastern boundaries of California,
they have guidlines for construction
13. ...And the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California after completing its road across said State, is authorized to continue the construction of said railroad and telegraph through the Territories of the United States to the Missouri River... upon the terms and conditions provided in this act in relation to the Union Pacific Railroad Company, until said roads shall meet and connect...
They can cunstruct as long as they follow the guidlines of the act.
14. That the Leavenworth, Pawnee and Western Railroad Company of Kansas are hereby authorized to construct a railroad and telegraph line... upon the same terms and conditions in all respects as are provided
they can construct rails and telegraph lines.
15.one hundred and fifty miles westerly from the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains, and one hundred and fifty miles eastwardly from the western base of the Sierra Nevada mountains
The tracks will fall between these two places
16. That for the purposes herein mentioned the Secretary of the Treasury shall... in accordance with the provisions of this act, issue to said company bonds of the United States of one thousand dollars each
they will be provided with whatever they need
17. every alternate section of public land, designated by odd numbers, to the amount of five alternate sections per mile on each side of said railroad, on the line thereof, and within the limits of ten miles on each side of said road... Provided That all mineral lands shall be excepted from the operation of this act; but where the same shall contain timber, the timber thereon is hereby granted to said company...
There are limits to the railway
18. That the right of way through the public lands be... granted to said company for the construction of said railroad and telegraph line; and the right... is hereby given to said company to take from the public lands adjacent to the line of said road, earth, stone, timber, and other materials
the rules are different on public property.
19. That there be... granted to the said company, for the purpose of aiding in the construction of said railroad and telegraph line, and to secure the safe and speedy transportation of mails, troops,
they can assist in the construction if they do it fast.
20. construction thereof; said right of way is granted to said railroad to the extent of two hundred feet in width on each side of said railroad when it may pass over the public lands, including all necessary grounds, for stations, buildings, workshops, and depots, machine shops, switches, side tracks, turn tables, and water stations. The United States shall extinguish as rapidly as may be the Indian titles to all lands falling under the operation of this act...
The railroad can pass over public land if it is within the right distance from the houses.
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