Here are the groups for tonight's HW assignment. Please note that you are only responsible for reading the article assigned to your group. Here's the link to the assignments
Group 1: Valentina, Frank Z, Joe C., Allen, Nelofar, Abigail, Gabrielle
Group 2: Maria V., Susan, Camilla, Elizabeth, Nisaa, Alyssa, Ashley, Sara
Group 3: Kathleen, Frank A., Charlie, Andrew, Luca, Aliyah, Sanam
Group 4: Kris, Ahsley D, David W., Fernando, Elana, Sebastian, Stacy
Group 5: Angela, Anthony, Spencer, Emma, Michelle
Group 1's: "A Revolution to Conserve"
2's: "Radicals vs. Conservatives"
3's: “The American Revolution as a Colonial War for Independence” by Thomas Barrow
4's: “Conflict and Consensus in the American Revolution” by Edmund Morgan
5's: “Women in the Revolution” by Mary Beth Norton
3 comments:
1. Was the conflict conservative (to keep what they had) or revolutionary (to achieve major changes)? To achieve major changes such as owning their own country.
2. Did the conflict with England grow from consensus among the colonists (if so, about what) or from internal conflicts among the colonists (if so, over what)? Yes because England used to help the colonies out whenever they needed help. England is the reason we had the land anyway and we couldn’t even pay a tax. This made England hate us.
3. How was the purpose of the American revolution an outgrowth of the fact that the conflict was between Englishmen and England? Why does this factor cause the American revolution to differ from
independence movements by native populations against a foreign ruler? We were fighting the land that we had come from. So we might have had to look twice to see if the one in your iron sights is your family member.
4. What were the goals of the colonists in seeking independence? To make general cornwalis surender giving the colonists their independence.
6. Explain Barrow’s contention that ironically the French Revolutionaries kept more than was intended while the American Independence War changed more than was intended. The French only joined us at war when they realized that we had a good chance of winning. Then England was helped by Germany and a revolution became a World War.
Michelle Ganpat
Period 5&8
Chapter 5“Women in the Revolution”
1. The similarities between the experiences of women in various regions such as New England, The Middle states,New York and Philadelphia was similar when women were faced with monumental decisions. They had to decide whether to flee to protect themselves and their children or stay to save their homes from enemies. Diseases like smallpox and dysentery also forced women to make deathly decisions. They had to choose between putting live portions of the disease into the body, in hope of preventing infection, or waiting and risking the deadly infection.
The differences between them was women in parts of Boston had to choose between fleeing to protect themselves and their children or remaining to protect homes exposed to gunfire across enemy lines, with little access to food or firewood because it was stolen by the British for fuel. They would also be risking being burned or destroyed by British troops.
2. Challenges women faced during the war period was diseases like smallpox and dysentery. There wasn't much they could do about dysentery, but smallpox had a new and risky defense where you could have put it in your body to try to prevent it or wait and risk getting the disease. White women in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut feared being attacked and raped by British soldiers who threatened them with death if they refused them. Slaves were offered the opportunity to win liberty, without restriction to age or sex by the British. They were not safe with the British because many were recaptured and returned to their owners though about 10,000 black slaves were able to leave on British ships after the war ended. Financial roles also affected women. Many accompanied their husbands as cooks, nurses, or laundresses if they had no other way to support them during the war. In the camps women did most of the work but it improved some poor conditions for them.
3.Patriot wives had it better than Loyalist wives who were forced to side with the British like it or not if their husbands were on the loyalist side. The women's feelings did not count. Loyalist wives risked loss of homes and possessions. They sometimes had to abandon homes and possessions and flee to “alien” lands in England, Canada or the West Indies.
4.Economically it helped women in poor conditions who joined the camps and did all the work. Politically it gave them no choice if you were a loyalist to express your own feelings because you had to stay on your husbands side whether you wanted to be a loyalist of not. Socially womens' activities were still restricted after war and they had to return back to their positions at home. Women did not gain substantially but respect grew for the role of women.
5. The way women was seen before changed but not by much. Respect for the role of women grew but they did not gain anything substantially. Americans did begin to comprehend a woman’s importance beyond their household.
Chapter 5
1.Illustrate the similarities and differences in the experiences of women in the various regions of the colonies during the American revolution.
Experiences such as threat from enemy troops, diseases like smallpox and dysentery, and decisions relating finance and political affairs of their husbands were shared among most American women. Though in Boston women had a choice of leaving to protect themselves and their children or staying to protect homes being hit by gunfire.
In New York, Nj, and connecticut there were case of rape against women by the British.
2. Explain the challenges and opportunities for women during the war period including:
A. Health and disease- place her family in a risk of introducing live portions of the disease into the body to prevent infection or waiting for the infection. concluding to death.
B. Threats from soliders- British soliders tend to rape women, destroy homes, passed on diseases, robbed clothes or/and jewelry. forcing people to flee because they would steal food and firewood for fuel. Though they gave black women "liberty" if they worked as slaves.
C. Financial Roles- Women werent allowed to conduct businesses.
3. How were women affected by their husbands' political activitism prioper to and during the revolution?
Loyalist wives risk loss of homes when their husbands became loyal to the Crown.
4. What impact did the war have on the role of women in society in both the short and long term?
A. Economically- women werent really allowed to conduct a business during the war byt after the war roles of men and women seen complementary.
B. Politically- Patriot wives were treated better than loyalist wives. Loyalist wives were forced to seek refude behind British lines most times. Women could work as cooks and nurses to accompany their husband. Women werent allowed to engage in business without power attorney set up by their husband.
C. socially- during the war women were abused but after the war people acknownledged how women support homes and raised children to serve their country and it formed into respect.
5. To what extent was the American Revolution a Radical or a Converative Movement? Explain.
The American Revolution seemed to be a Radical Movement to change the political and social institutions in the colonies because they wanted independences.
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