Wednesday, May 11, 2011

CDL: France, England, and Women's Rights in the 1790s

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1.       What reasons did the people have against women’s rights in this time period? -           The culture was that women were to be subm...
Saturday, April 30, 2011

The Declaration of Independence

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1.     What is the author arguing? The authors of the declarations of independence weren’t so much as debating as they were writing a re...
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Monday, April 25, 2011

Give me Liberty or give me Death

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1.     What is the author arguing? The author is attempting to persuade the House to fight the British off in order to claim complete indep...
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Thursday, April 21, 2011

How Long Did the Seven Years' War Last in Indian Country?

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1. How was the relationship between the British and American colonists during the war? -   Though they went back and forth a lot, they st...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Newspapers: "The Spring of Knowledge"

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1.      Why would the governor want the colonial’s newspaper copy submitted for “official approval” and what did the colonists gain by not ...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

Why Were Some New Englanders Accused of Being Witches?

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1. What percentage of individuals accused of witchcraft were women? Men? Is there significance to this? - about 80% of the victims were witc...

Why Did English Colonists Consider Themselves Superior to Indians and Africans?

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1)     How did the English colonist get the idea of colored people being cursed by God, and how did many colonist believe that it is the rig...