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American politics these days feels more like a three-ring circus than a serious debate about our country's future. While everyone's busy nitpicking Trump's
As a classroom teacher I love to get my students up and active in class. Here is another chance to do just that. This time it is about the hated Stamp Act. I've also included some follow up questions that I discuss with my students or have them journal once we finish the play. Here is what's covered in this play: British viewpoint on taxing their colonies in North America. A description of the stamp tax and why it was enacted. The Virginia Resolves. The Stamp Act Congress and the writing of the Declaration of Rights and Grievances. Reaction by the people in the colonies to the Stamp Act A reminder that some in America supported the King and Parliament in this matter. "The Stamp Act of 1765" - A History Play
Using Philadelphia as an example, you can see it's a lot cheaper to educate than it is to incarcerate. So, ummm ... why are we cutting education spending? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
But tax-dodging CEOs complain about high rates all the same.
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In “They Rule: The 1% v. Democracy,” author Paul Street describes how John Carpenter prefigured our present moment when all conspires to make resistance seem futile and alternatives, non-existent…
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Colonial America- Taxes and Smuggling Webquest and Video Analysis with Key- this is a 10 page document that contains a webquest and a completed teacher’s key for easy marking. It contains 27 questions based on a Crash Course U.S. History video clip and an online U.S. history study guide. Students will be introduced to the topics of smuggling and British taxation on the American colonies by watching a clip of the Crash Course U.S. History Video: Taxes & Smuggling - Prelude to Revolution. The video will explain how the Seven Years War left Britain heavily in debt and that the British looked to the colonies to help pay off this debt through taxes. The Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, and the Tea Act are all discussed. American displeasure with the new taxes, no taxation without representation, and their response to the taxes (boycotts, protests, Boston Tea Party, First Continental Congress) is also covered by the video. American smugglers are also mentioned and how the colonies purposefully avoided British tax by this method. Following the video, students will proceed to an online article which will further discuss the importance of smuggling in the American colonies, and how it helped form revolutionary thinking. This webquest can be easily used as an introduction to the topic, a study guide, or a quick and easy sub plan.
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