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==Review==

==Review==

To learn history well, imagine being there at certain times and places.  Think of what it might have been like.  Imagine it in your mind.  Put yourself at the time and place of the Boston Massacre, for example.  Try to see both sides of the conflict, and why people acted as they did.  Why did the British soldiers shoot their guns?  Because people were throwing snowballs at them, some containing rocks.  Why were colonists throwing snowballs?  Because they did not think the British soldiers should be there.  Why were the British soldiers there?  Because the King George III ordered them to be there to keep things under control.  And so on.

To learn history well, imagine being there at certain times and places.  Think of what it must have been like.  Imagine it in your mind.  Put yourself at the time and place of the Boston Massacre, for example.  Try to see both sides of the conflict, and why people acted as they did.  Why did the British soldiers shoot their guns?  Because people were throwing snowballs at them, some containing rocks.  Why were colonists throwing snowballs?  Because they did not think the British soldiers should be there.  Why were the British soldiers there?  Because the King George III ordered them to be there to keep things under control.  And so on.  Every person in history had a motivation for doing what he did, and to learn history well it is essential to understand those motivations.

We discussed how England had reasons for imposing its direct taxation on the colonists, in order to pay for the [[French and Indian War]].  But how do we know that the taxes were to pay for the war?  Would the taxes pay directly for the war, or would taxes be used to pay for more than the war?  Would the taxes cease when the war debt was paid?  Probably not: most likely those taxes would never end, even after the war was fully paid.

That does not mean both sides were partly right for what they did.  One side may be completely wrong, but it still had a motivation to act as it did.  Often the reason is either to make more money, or to gain more power (or self-glory).

'''Question''':  was the American Revolution a "conservative revolution?"  It was not a true "revolution" because it did not attempt to overthrow and remove King George III, who ruled for 60 years (including nearly 40 years after American Revolution).  The American Revolution was not motivated to establish a brand new future with its own revolutionary leader, because for the first few years after the Revolution the colonies (then states) refused to have a president at all.  Instead, the American Revolution was an attempt to restore natural God-given rights and self-governance to the colonies, a "conservative" result.

 

Ask yourself this question:  was the American Revolution a "conservative revolution?"  It did not attempt to overthrow and remove King George III, who ruled for 60 years (including nearly 40 years after American Revolution).  The American Revolution was not motivated to establish a brand new future with its own leader, because for the first few years after the Revolution the colonies (then states) refused to have a president at all.  Instead, the American Revolution was an attempt to restore the past of the colonies, and restore natural God-given rights as the colonists understood them.

==State Constitutions==

==State Constitutions==