Humanities Homework Help

The discussion for this week is on the video clips on New York just before and during the Revolutionary War and on the First Amendment to the Constitution.  The prompt for this weeks discussion is:

What change described in these videos had the greatest impact on the colonies and why?

Each week we will watch a short video clip or two (or three) that goes along with the weekly topic. There will be a discussion board writing assignment on the video clip and a question or two on the quiz about them. They are drawn from a variety of sources but as we move along in the course most will come from a documentary on the history of New York. While some of what New York goes through is specific to that town, much of what it experiences can be generalized to many/most cities throughout the United States, even if they experience it years or decades later.  Slavery was not just a southern institution, there was also a widespread use of slaves in some northern cities including New York. With increasing tensions there is a viscous suppression of a slave uprising in New York in the 1740s.The events leading up to the Revolution including: the French & Indian War, the arrival of Alexander Hamilton, and the growing tensions over British control, including the issue of taxation. Also, the role that New York played in the Revolutionary war and its impact on New York.Thomas Jefferson and the Baptists struggle for a separation of church and state. Leading to the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom and eventually the 1st Amendment.

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https://youtu.be/wO3V4oqchos?list=PLoHCsZBLJKM_TWidHjSKnoQ31wmXUc8PT

https://youtu.be/OouRAqGtTM4?list=PLoHCsZBLJKM_TWidHjSKnoQ31wmXUc8PT

hello could you please make a comment on this student’s post? Thank you very much Student post: The thing that had the biggest impact on the colonies was the taxation of everything by the British. The British had decided that people should pay taxes on everything in their lives. New York was already in a state of depression due to the British fleet leaving and the New Yorkers were not able to make as much money as they were before. When times were already extremely hard on them a tyrannical ruler was trying to take more money away from them. This frustrated the people of New York and in 1765 there was a brief rebellion that only harmed an effigy of the Royal governor but that did not last long as they quickly erected a statue to show their loyalty to King George III.  People had to live with the rule of the British government and being mistreated until in 1774 Alexander Hamilton really started to rally the citizens of New York. He released a pamphlet that pointed out how they were free men and should rebel against the British government. After a year of rallying the people of New York to believe in themselves and that they were free, in 1775 the British killed Americans at Lexington and Concord. This was a critical part in the start of the Revolutionary War that won America its independence from British rule.