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Journal Entries For American Revolution(Patriots) By: Robert 8-1 Wednesday, May 15, 13

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Journal Entries For American

Revolution(Patriots)By: Robert 8-1

Wednesday, May 15, 13

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Journal Entry 1

The Boston Massacre

Horrific Taxations March 5th, 1770. Due to the many events that has been happening, I’ve decided to start writing some journals to record all of the information. A brief introduction to my family and I, I have two siblings, a brother and a sister, and we are suffering from negative events that are happening during this possible revolution. For instance, today was one of the worst days, it was outrageous and ridiculous. My big brother and I were walking on the Boston King street when we saw the brutal act happen in front of our eyes. The British commander commanded his British soldiers to shoot our people in public on the Boston King street while our people weren’t armed, my brother attempted to stop the British soldiers, but ended up dying a horrific death. I witnessed by myself, five Bostonians died in front of my eyes, including my brother. I will never forget what the heartless soldiers had done to my people and my beloved brother, it was only a while back when some of the British soldiers were somewhat on our side.

In 1765, the British Parliament imposed a direct tax igniting the hatred from both Patriots and Loyalists for the British Parliament. It was a habit of mine to buy a newspaper as a read on my way to work, but now, I had to pay taxes for just buying a bloody newspaper. Not only are newspapers taxed, small things such as magazines and lgal documents were also taxed. This event was called the stamp act because when colonies bought paper from Britain, the papers had an official stamp on it that showed they had paid the tax. “Taxation without representation” was a common quote during the event, the colonists felt that the British government had no right to tax them since there weren’t any representatives of the colonies in the British Parliament. Later on, the colonies rejected and refused to continue to pay the taxes, in fact, the tax collectors were threatened and made to quit their jobs. The colonies even started to burned the stamp paper out in public, it was a pleasant scene for me to witness.

In 1964, the British placed a tax on sugar, wine and other foods. The reason was obviously because they were greedy and wanted more money, which would be used on security to protect the colonies. The security was expensive because of the Indians and fights with foreign powers. This event made the people in the colonies extremely unhappy. Many colonists thought that this was a very selfish event, which it was, for the British’s own goods. Later on, colonists started to stop buying sugar and all the foods that had a raised tax, and they also influenced and convinced other people to stop as well. This event made the colonists more united against the British.

The past few years were painful, my family couldn’t buy many things because of the raised tax, but now that people are becoming united against the British, it calmed me down a little bit.

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Journal Entry 2

The Declaration Of Independence

The Signing July 4th, 1776. Freedom, America has finally declared for independence, today washed away all the painful days and events that had happened in these long past years. John Hancock started the signing of The Declaration of Independence, which lead to the congressional representatives of the Thirteen Colonies to also sign it, who were all not born in America. This Declaration of Independence states that the authority to govern belongs to people, rather than to a general king or leader, and that all people are created equal and have rights to life, liberty and happiness. This event basically created the freedom of the people in America, we will no longer be ruled and trampled over by the British kings or high leveled governors. Freedom is all ours. There are no more raised taxes due to the two events, the Stamp Act and the Sugar Act which were ridiculously stupid. This day, the fourth of July, the wording of the Declaration of Independence was approved and sent to the printer for publication. The printer, John Dunlap, was asked to make around 200 copies to be published throughout the colonies.

Looking back, the Boston Tea Party really began this revolution. The British East India company had controlled all tea trading between India and the British colonies. Because of the amount of tax the colonies had to pay to buy the tea, the colonies refused to buy the British tea. Instead of buying the teas with high taxes, the colonies smuggled tea in from Holland. This lead to warehouses completely filled with unsold tea of the British East India Company, and they were in danger of going out of business. The British government really wanted to prevent the British East India Company from going out of business so they thought of a vicious plan, which was to force the colonists to buy their tea. In May 1773, the Tea Act allowed the British East India Company to directly sell their tea to the colonists through the colonial wholesale merchants. This act received a common term used in the past few years, Taxation without Representation. The colonies once again demanded that the British government remove the tax on tea, in addition, the dock workers started to refuse unloading the tea from ships. These steps lead to the event that happened on December 16th, 1773, called the “Boston Tea Party”. A group of men who claim themselves as the “Sons of Liberty” went to the Boston harbor. The men were dressed as Mohawk Indians. They went on three boarded British ships, and dumped forty-five tons of tea into the wide ocean of the Boston Harbor.

Besides the Boston Tea Party, there were also many more events that made our lives miserable, but after all of those brutal events, we have finally come to this day, the fourth of July. Everything is over, us, the Americans, finally have our freedom that we’ve always dreamt of having.

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Journal Entry 3

The Battle of Saratoga

The Battle October 30th, 1777. These past few years has been painful for us Americans, many lives including my close colonists have been killed during battle or murdered. So many fights have been fought by my fellow soldiers and I, we really needed a victory to bump our confidence, which leads us to the our victory of the Battle of Saratoga.  

There were many battles fought before this victory, such as the Battle of Bunker and Breeds Hill, Battle at Lexington and Concord. We’ve lost majorly during those battles and we began to lose faith in our army and our leaders, but then, this key victory put us back on our feet and ignited our confidence. First off, we really lost the Bunker Hill battle because we weren’t being considerate. Our original plan was to set up forts on Bunker and Breeds hill, however, before we could even rest after setting up those forts, our location was discovered by a British ship, which ended up firing at us signaling the British and Hessians that this was our location. Of course, they started marching towards us and we had to eventually abandon the forts due to their large troops greatly out-numbering us. Even though as I mentioned before, these past few years haven’t been what we have been hoping for, our important victory of Saratoga helped us get back on our feet. At the start of this war, I knew that if we won this, it would change the situation dramatically because it will give us the faith and hope we’ve always needed. I ran around and spent all my energy doing things that would help us win this bloody war. We tried our best to prepare for everything, and sure enough, it was not so long later, that we discovered that the British has surrounded us. However, we have prepared for something like this to happen, which is why we all retreated and no one was captured or killed, fortunately. Out of a desperate situation, the next part was really the ridiculous part. Burgoyne decided to aggress and approach the fort with a really dumb idea of letting us, his teammates march directly forward. His strategy was that, when one person falls down, another soldier would march straight forward without even trying to not die and replace the fallen soldier’s place. I was extremely mad at this move, it was your people from the same country and your soldiers that has taken bullets and risked their lives to save you, and yet you just stand there and watch them die, it’s freaking ridiculous. Even though this strategy was really dumb and retarded, it eventually lead our troops to greatly outnumber the Red Coats. The British has decided finally to retreat due the large amount of troops we had compared to the British soldiers. This victory made the surviving soldiers and I very happy, but as we marched back to our base, I couldn’t help but wipe a tear off of my face. Many many dead patriot soldiers were laying on the ground over their red as fire blood, and as my eyes start to tear up again, I will stop writing this journal.

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Journal Entry 4

The Declaration of Independence

Our Last Battle April 9th, 1784. This was it, today, the treaty of Paris has finally been approved after an overdue of five months, even though no one seemed to have complained. On october 19th, 1783, we finally won this battle with our glorious leader George Washington. Our preferably last battle, the Battle of York Town started on August 21st, 1781. After about two months of war, the British Army has finally surrendered and the British government began to consider having peace with us Americans, which made my family and I extremely happy after all the horrific events we have gone through.

I cannot help myself but write about this battle, from the start to end because it took a lot of men and time to finally win this damn battle. Before this victorious battle happened, our General Nathanael Greene had taken over and became the commander of our big and well trained American Continental Army in the south. The war General Greene was fighting in the south wasn’t going as good as we would like it to be, but Greene then used new and different tactics that allowed us to finally have a victory and caused the bloody British Army to retreat back to where they belong, the East Coast.

Our battle was won because of our tactics, the British Army was surrounded at York Town. Due to the amount of troops the French gave us, the British soldiers were greatly outnumbered by us. For eleven days, we bombarded the British with our troops and forces, which led to Cornwallis’ surrender; he sent out a white flag signaling their defeat. Just in case, we decided to be in preparation for another battle, however, during this time, Cornwallis agreed to Washington’s peace terms and Battle of York Town was finally over.

After this battle, the only thing that needed to be done to end the American Revolution was to sign the treaty between America and Britain in Paris, which was eventually approved as I mentioned before, on April 9th, 1784. However, this process took longer than anyone expected. Even though the British surrendered the Battle of York Town, it still took a long time for an agreement between Britain and United States to be signed, in fact, it took a long time of one and a half year for the last person to sign the agreement, which was King George.

This agreement stated the the major points, one being that Britain would give the Thirteen Colonies freedom and independence, and that they had no claim on the land nor the government. The second point was that the boundaries of the United States of America were allowed for western expansion, which will hopefully help America expand its boundaries all the way to the Pacific Ocean.

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Journal Entry 5

The U.S. Constitution

The Last and Final Action Yes! Today, I’m not even going to start with the date because my emotions has conquered me and forced me to start with “Yes!” to my journal. September 17th, 1787. Today was probably the best and most exciting day for me, personally and most likely for many other Americans also. The shortly written 4400 word U.S. Constitution was finally signed by the 38 delegates their original states. This Constitution fights for the rights of the American citizens, which is my family and I along with many other Americans. Under America’s first governing document, the Articles of Confederation, the national government was weak and states operated like independent countries.

The Articles of Confederation was a big lead up to the signing of the U.S. Constitution. After America’s victory over Britain in York Town, the new America decided to run some sort of form of governmental system on the eastern seaboard of North America. The Articles of Confederation represents the first constitutional agreement formed between the thirteen American states. A unity was required to be made as a result of the American Revolution, which is why the thirteen states became united. The Articles of Confederation was submitted to the Second Continental Congress on July 12th, 1776. Three main points were the purpose of this constitution, which were, first being that the appointment of taxes according to the population, second being that the granting of one vote per state, and last being that the right of the federal government to dispose the public lands in the West.

The three branches were also created because the delegates at the Constitutional Convention wanted to divide power within the government. They thought that having one person or a group with all these powers was a bad idea which is why they created the three parts, or the three branches: the executive branch, the legislative branch, and the judicial branch. They did not want these powers to be controlled by just one man or one group.

The executive branch is leaded by the president. The president mentions federal laws and recommends new ones, and directs normal defense and foreign policy. The president has the powers of directing a government, commanding the armies, dealing with international powers, and changing the laws.

The legislative branch is leaded by the Congress, which includes the House of Representatives and the Senate. The main task of these two bodies is to make the laws. Its powers include passing laws, originating spending bills ,and approving treaties.

Finally, the judicial branch is leaded by the supreme court. Its powers include interpreting the Constitution, reviewing laws, and deciding cases involving states' rights.

All in all, today is a very emotional but happy day for me, we have finally come up with a fair and good government system. I believe that our lives after today will be in capable hands and we will have our independence. It is a free country!

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