due Sat at 10PM

You are to respond to three of your peers by Sunday.  You are to respond to the person in their role play. For example, If I was President Jefferson talking about the Barbary War, you will address me not as Linda but as President Jefferson.

1 .I am Samuel Adams born on September 17, 1722 and I was raised in Boston, Massachusetts. I attended and graduated from Harvard and got a Master of Arts. I am considered was of the founding fathers as I assisted with the creation and signed the Declaration of Independence. I was the second cousin to President John Adams, though many believed and mistaken us as brothers.  I held a public office as a tax collector early in my life, but I failed at this as I did not collect public levies and keep the accounts correct. I have many accomplishments such as, signing the Declaration of Independence, I was elected to the Massachusetts Assembly, I was a delegate to the first Continental Congress, appointed Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts and then Governor of Massachusetts.  But one of the things that I am most known for was assisting in the organization of the Boston Tea Party. This was a political protest in 1773 in which we gathered to protest the tax that Governor Hutchinson was trying to have the ships pay before departing the port. Protesters's eventually got fed up and destroyed a shipment of tea sent by the East India Company.  Many think that I was responsible and helped plan the dispute to destroy the tea, but that is one thing that will never be known. I was not known as a brewer and I was considered a poor businessman by many.  Overall in my career I may have not made a good business man, I was very successful and active in local politics.

 

Samuel Adams | American politician. (n.d.). Retrieved February 09, 2016, from http://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Adams

Samuel Adams. (n.d.). Retrieved February 09, 2016, from http://www.ushistory.org

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My fellow free men and Americans, I, James Madison, come to you this May of 1787 to the Constitutional Convention not as a politician, but as a man with a plan. The Virginia Plan is the basis for our young countries government and to ensure the United States is successful into the future (history.com, 2009). This plan calls for a stronger central government that will be split into three branches, the Legislative Branch, the Judicial Branch and the Executive Branch (history.com, 2009). These branches of national government will regulate each other through checks and balances, not allowing one branch to be stronger or have more power over the others. This, I am sure, will form the basis of our great Constitution. “Father of the Constitution” is what future generations of Americans will come to know me, as all of you here have so named me today (history.com, 2009).

I also have an idea for the guiding principles that our nation and our citizens should follow to ensure that tyranny and oppression are not allowed to survive in our new society. These nineteen amendments (which later are voted on and ten are kept) will be known as the Bill of Rights (Henretta, 2012). These rights will safeguard personal rights to all persons given by God, including freedom of speech and religion, and mandate legal procedures, such as a trial by jury (Henretta, 2012).

 

References:

Henretta, J.A., Edwards, R., Self, R.O. (2012). America A Concise History: VOLUME 1: To 1877. Available from online.vitalsource.com

o    History.com Staff. (2009). James Madison. Retrieved from http://www.history.com/topics

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Throughout my life I have played many roles that has had an effect in some way, shape, or form. Most of you do not recognize me as the "Elected to the Boston Assembly, 1766; Delegate to, and President of, the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts, circa 1773; Elected to Continental Congress, 1774; Elected President of the Continental Congress, 1775; Member of Massachusetts state Constitutional Convention, elected Governor of Massachusetts, through 1793". Those are all just statuses and Titles I have held in my time. My success originally came from family where I inherited a thriving trading business in Boston and would, with Samuel Adams, become a major figure in colonial agitation against British rule. The one significant mark I made in history was literally MY mark! My signature as John Hancock has made an everlasting impression. I was the first representative to sign the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, a document which maintained that the thirteen American states were free of British rule. I made sure to sign my name very large and clear. Even if it is unfounded, on the day of signing the Declaration, I commented, "The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward." An alternate story, also unfounded has him saying, "There, I guess King George will be able to read that!"

Biography.com Editors. "John Hancock Biography. " The Biography.com website, http://www.biography.com/people/john-hancock-9327271. 11 Feb. 2016.

Ushistory.org. “John Hancock.” Declaration of Independence, http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/hancock.htm.  Thursday, February 11, 2016

Wikipedia contributors. "John Hancock." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 6 Feb. 2016. Web. 11 Feb. 2016.