Question of the day: How much were you taught about American history?
AMERICAN MADE
by Jan Tetstone
The most difficult thing for me to face, as an American, is the reality that as a people we have allowed, and continue to allow, the few to dictate the value of each of us as human beings.
Our country was not freely given to the American people; it was first created in the hearts and minds of a freedom loving people.
Like countries on the other side of the world who to this day, still, send armies to invade and steal land that rightfully belong to others; today the American people live on land native Americans once hunted on,built homes on, and raised their families on.
I am an American of the "melting pot" with French, Indian and Irish blood running through my veins; today there are those among us who continue to use the "race card" to divide the American people.
Let me tell you a little history, about the first Americans ,and other Americans who together created the greatest country in the world, with their blood sweat and tears . And a whole lot of prayers!
But first a little history about Pontiac's War: The Indians who had helped the French could not believe that their ally was beaten... English fur traders moved about among the Indians, giving them rum and cheating them of their furs....Pontiac,the Ottawa chief, felt that the English had to be stopped. He quietly moved among the Indians, uniting the tribes from Canada southward almost to the Gulf of Mexico. French agents also moved among the Indians, saying that a large French army was on the way to recover the lost land for them and for France.
The French army didn't come, and the Indians didn't wait. In May of 1763 the Indians took the English settlers by surprise, captured a number of their forts, and drove the settlers out of the areas. The following year, Pontiac was defeated, and the war ended.
When the Indians were fighting to save their 'homeland' they weren't fighting Americans; they were fighting British armies sent by King George III.
Americans didn't exist, when France and Britain were dividing the land that, belonged to the Indians, long before the British or French had ever set foot on it.
The French and Indian War was a fight between England and France over who should control North America. It began in America.Because the English won. English influence became stronger in America while French influence became weaker.
In 1763 England had become a world power with possessions spread around the world. But. The price of gaining this power and the many wars had left England with huge debts that the English taxpayers could not pay because of the heavy tax load that they already were forced to carry..
King George and Parliament began to look toward the colonies for money to pay England's debts, and to handle current expenses.
After the war England changed the policy by which it governed the colonies. The colonists resented the change and rebelled against England , their mother country.
Thereby, opening the way for the American Revolution in which only 3% of the first Americans fought for the God given right to life,liberty and justice for all.
I might note at this point, that the promise Winston Churchill
made in reference to Hitler destroying Great Britain..... echoes down through history the sentiments of the 3% of Americans who fought to be free from British rule in 1776 . Nothing but " blood, toil, tears,and sweat... whatever the cost my be; we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender!"
Note: America's history didn't begin when American history did! Just as slavery didn't begin with the American people importing slaves! Regardless, of what the last five or six generations of educators , and /or any Queen or King would have you, and the world believe.
Note: Before getting a world of devoted educators upset about the last two lines, let me add: There will be another article, in the near future titled " Educating American children."
Before the American Revolution the thirteen colonies /states were confined to the Atlantic Coast.The first permanent settlements were:
1. Virgina -1607
2. Massachusetts--- Plymouth--------------- 1620
Salem----------------1626
Boston---------------1630
3. New Hampshire---Portsmouth-------------1623
4. New York-----------Fort Orange------------1624
New Amsterdam -----1626
5. New Jersey-------Jersey City Region-------1630
6. Maryland-----------St' Mary's-----------------1634
7. Connecticut-------Connecticut Valley---- -1633-36
8. Rhode Island------Providence-----------------1636
9. Delaware-----------Fort Chriatina-------------1638
10. North Carolina--Albemarle Sound-----------1653-60
11. South Carolina--Charles Town-------------1670
12. Pennsylvania----Philadelphia----------------1682
13. Georgia-----------Savannah--------------------1733
Patrick Henry eloquently expressed the feeling of the "Minute men" and all who fought for liberty,in the speech he made on March 23, 1775, in Virginia:
"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to Justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves. . . . Has Great Britian any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us; they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose them? Shall we try argument? We have been trying that for the last ten years.. . . We have petitioned--we have prostrated ourselves before the throne . . . and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne. In vain, after these things, may we indulge in the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free . . . we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! . . . Three millons of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us . . . There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged, their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable--and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! Gentlemen may cry, peace, peace,- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"
Americans will have a better chance of staying free in this day and time, if we all understand the common-goals that unite us ,a many blooded people, into a nation of people devoted to the belief that "all men are created equal, with a God given right to live and die free."
The American Revolution was the beginning of the first government on earth to be "of the people, for the people and by the people."
After the war that ,much like the civil war, pitted family against family and friend against friend, the United States of America was born by the writing of the declaration of Independence. It is the birth certificate of our country. It supersedes the U.S. Constitution, and states ,clearly, the reasons for our departure from being ruled by Kings.
In 1775 the king proclaimed the Americans rebels and forbade commercial intercourse with them. Parliament closed the American ports. The British burned Falmouth, Maine "Portland," in October and Norfork , Virginia, on January 1, 1776. At the time the *second continental congress was in session[ with members such as Samuel Adams, and Patrick Henry, waiting for a decison on the next step the congress would take. It was evidence was clear now that the colonies must submit or fight. Many of the conservatives gave up their opposition to independence. Thomas Jefferson expressed the general opinion when he wrote:
"I will cease to exist before I yield to a connection on such terms as the British Paliament proposes."
Thomas Paine stated the case of the colonies in plain language in a pamphlet called "Common Sense," by "an Englishman.
" What all had been thinking was here plainly stated: "The period of debate is closed. Arms, as the last recourse, must decide the contest. The appeal was the choice of the king and the continent hath accepted the challenge." In later years Paine became unpopular on account of his writings against the Christian religion; but history will long remember the important part he played in the American revolution.
*Note: The United States of America congress has not been formed at time. So we are still dealing with a king formed government.
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Roster of Soldiers and Patriots of the American Revolution Buried In Indiana
Compiled and Edited by Mrs. Roscoe C. O'Byrne, Chairman, Brookville Iniana
Published by Indiana Daughters of the American Revolution 1938
Mrs. William H. sCHLOSSER -State Regent 1937-1940
This volume of Revolutionary Soldiers buried in Indiana is presented with the
hope that it will materially assist in increasing the membership in D.A. R.
Chapters in the State.
‘Within these pages will be found authentic service for 1394 soldiers and
patriots. .
*.The compilation of these records has been the project of Indiana Daughters.
for the past four years, during the administrations of Miss Bonnie Farwell
and Mrs. William H. Schlosser, Indiana State Regents.
This volume is not the work of one person, but the work of many.Chapter members
have read all the D.A.R. Lineage volumes, Probate Court Records,Wills, Deeds,
and Marriage Records, prior to the date 1850; also early newspapers of the
counties and County Histories. Cemeteries have been searched for the graves.
Many persons, not D.A.R.‘s, have contrib...
https://bloomfield.lib.in.us/uploads/4/9/0/2/49026837/roster.pdf Stop feeding the stock market. It only exists to make the rich richer-and the poor beggars.
Today, the news we get is controlled by those who inherited a different kind of life style than the average man and women; those who attended Harvard, Yale, or another of the Univerities that was founded by Toties long before the American Revolution.
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1635: John Harvard received his M.A. from Cambridge University, England. 1636: First College in American colonies founded. The “Great and General Court of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England” approves £400 for the establishment of “a schoale or colledge” later to be called “Harvard.”
Drafted by Henry Dunster, the Charter of 1650 called for the Harvard Corporation to consist of seven individuals: the President, five Fellows, and a Treasurer. The Charter named the Corporation as the “President and Fellowes of Harvard College” and transferred to them, in “perpetual succession,” the duties of managing the College.
The first changes to the Corporation’s structure since 1650 were implemented in 2010. These include an expansion of the number of Fellows, the establishment of terms of service for Fellows, and the creation of standing committees.
Let's see.
Eight Presidents of the United States have graduated from Harvard University: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, John F. Kennedy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.
Note:Joseph R. Biden, Jr. is our 46th President- He didn't go to Harvard. But he was vice-president to the 44th President Barack H. Obama who did.
Yale University had its beginnings with the founding of the New Haven Colony in 1638 by a band of 500 Puritans who fled from persecution in Anglican England. It was the dream of the Reverend John Davenport, the religious leader of the colony, to establish a theocracy and a college to educate its leaders. Purchases and plans for a college library date back to 1656 but were suspended when King Charles II forced the colony to unite with Connecticut in 1665.
https://guides.library.yale.edu/yalehistoryPresidents that attended Yale University include William Howard Taft, George H.W Bush, and George W. Bush for his undergraduate studies, prior to attending Harvard University. Both Gerald Ford and Bill Clinton attended Yale Law School as well.
Americans have been played like character in a play book: We no long control the US Ports-the air space above our heads;and God only knows what else the "Loyalists" have stole from the all of us, the people of the United States of America:
In our country , unlike many countries, there is no national port authority.
Rather authority is diffused throughout all three levels of government-federal, state and local. That stems from the
federal character of the U.S. Constitution, which reserves certain powers for the national government and others strictly
for the states. The Canadian system, by contrast, is subject to the general purview of the central government and more
specifically to enactments of the national parliament. The enactment in June 1998 of the Canada Marine Act changed
somewhat the character of the federal port system and permits the divestment of many ports previously administered by
the Ministry of Transport to non-federal public and private entities. However, the nation’s major seaports are governed
and managed by federal port authorities and ultimate statutory authority constitutionally remains with Parliament.
https://www.aapa-ports.org/files/PDFs/governance_uscan.pdfNote: Parliament- (in the United Kingdom,UK) the highest legislature, consisting of the sovereign, the House of Lords, and the House of Commons. "the Secretary of State will lay proposals before Parliament"
