Friday, November 14, 2008

essay 2 outline (what i have done so far)

1. The American colonists are acting immature and rowdy. They think that everything that the Britain parliament is doing is "infringing on their rights". There's nothing unjust going on, we've got it made. We have land, slaves, food, anything we want. And because they think they shouldn’t be regulated or think that there is no need to pay their dues, they are sadly mistaken. I choose to stay with Britain in this argument.

2. New Hampshire was a refuge for colonial loyalists.
a. Woodbury Langdon was a merchant in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and served in Provincial Congress. He left for the "mother land" and later wrote that "he had left America after using his influence for peace and good order, to the end of preserving his family, his life, and his property, and that he might avoid all temptation to take sides with his disaffected countrymen." (resource link here)
b. A good amount of loyalists used New Hampshire as a stepping stone to get to England including John Fenton, and Woodbury Langdon. John Fenton was "In June, 1775, bodies of armed men at Portsmouth pursued John Fenton, an expelled member of the House of Assembly, to the residence of Governor John Wentworth, and compelled him to surrender. He was then given a hearing by the Provincial Congress and incarcerated in the jail at Exeter, but was later allowed to escape and go to England." (resource link here)

1 comment:

Craig McKenney said...

- This is not an outline. It is a freewrite shoved into your version of an outline.