Robert Gross ' The Minutemen And Their World

Why do people associate wealth with good leadership abilities? That is the main question that was lingering in my mind while I was read “The Minutemen and their World,” book by Robert Gross. The book is about a town called Concord (which is in Massachusetts). The books tells about how the city of Concord was before the Revolutionary war, during the Revolutionary war and after the revolutionary war. In this book, it shows how leaders come about and how they impact their society around them. After reading this book, it made me think about how wealthy people are always seen as leaders? Becoming wealthy in American can be a daunting task to complete. It requires a variety of different skills to make a profitable business. But does creating a lucrative business for personal gain, merits you to being a leader over the masses of common people? We currently have this exact situation playing out before our eyes with GOP candidate Donald Trump. Donald Trump doesn’t have any previous experience in political affairs, but he is currently leading

Robert A. Gross the author of “The Minutemen and their World” gives a very detailed nonfictional narrative of the small town of Concord, Massauchessets. Gross describes the American Revelotion through the eyes of this community which paints a more vivid picture of the events taking place up to the war which seperated the Unite States for Great Britian through a perspective that I have never seen before.

This chapter provided information from the trial of Captain Thomas Preston. The chapter asked the question, “What really happened in the Boston Massacre”. Chapter four focused on the overall event of the Massacre and trying to determine if Captain Preston had given the order to fire at Boston citizens. The chapter provides background information and evidence from Preston’s trial to leave the reader answering the question the chapter presents. Although, after looking through all the witnesses’ testimonies some might sway in Captain Preston’s favor, just the way the grand jury did.

Dudley, William, Teresa O'neill, and Bruno Leone, eds. The American Revolution Oppsing Viewpoints. San Diego: GreenHaven P, 1992.

In the book “Shays’ Rebellion: Authority and Distress in Post-revolutionary America”, Sean Condon shows us his outlook on how he saw post-revolutionary America to be within the late 1770’s and 1780’s. This book was released in 2015 by John Hopkins University Press, and was also made in a continuing book series by Peter Charles Hoffer and Willamjames Hull Hofer called Witness to History. The story takes us "Throughout the late summer and fall of 1786, farmers in central and western Massachusetts organized themselves into armed groups to protest against established authority and aggressive creditors. Calling themselves "regulators" or the "voice of the people.”” [1] Condon succeeds by prosing an appealing idea in an upfront style that shapes

Early in the evening on April 18, 1775 Dr. Joseph Warren, a prominent leader of the Sons of Liberty, became aware that Gage’s soldiers were marching to Boston common.4 Warren knew the warning had to get out so he summoned William Dawes, a local tanner and active Boston militiaman, for the important mission. Dawes instructions, the land route, were to ride to Lexington and Concord and report on the British movements and to notify colonial leaders along his routes. Dawes immediately rode

The Boston Massacre is one of the most controversial events in American history that occurred in Boston before the American Revolution. Certainly, it has a fundamental role in the development of America as a nation, which led it to have a huge motivation for revolution. A heavy British military presence and having very high taxes in the country were some of the main reasons that made Boston citizens very irritated. Thus, there were already many disagreements and tensions between inhabitants and the British that could have led to the Massacre. In this essay, I will carefully analyze three primary sources, and compare these to the interpretation given by HBO’s John Adams. In my view, these sources can be

There are times when people avoid doing what they should simply because they do not want to. Other times, they do not do what they should because they do not realize that something needs to be done. In Robert A. Gross’ book, The Minutemen and Their World, the members of Concord seem to have an outward reluctance for any members of the community to become involved in any risky behaviour that could alter their way of life if the threat was not directly affecting them. This phenomenon is called the ‘bystander effect,’ and it is used to diffuse responsibility off oneself and onto someone they deem more capable or willing of dealing with the issue. This, while not being an entirely colonial American issue, is most certainly found throughout colonial America during this time. The citizens in Concord, Massachusetts, were anything but willing to revolt against Britain and their policies. Nay, they were far too immersed in social issues surrounding their own community to be concerned with the events affecting communities outside their own; even if this meant ignoring important Acts and events that took place in important places such as Boston – a city that Concord was not far from. Whether it be their immersion in their own

To begin, the Farmington resolutions provided a sense of unification between the Americans. This is evident when an almost one-thousand people attended the public gathering in Farmington. The Intolerable acts helped sharpen the disapproval and hatred towards the British and the acts helped with the “enforcement of the edict resulted in wide colonial sympathy, particularly in neighboring Connecticut” . Correspondingly, this disapproval and hatred can be derived from the tone and language of the resolutions. The reader can also sense an emphasis on the idea of separatism towards the British. With the idea of separatism, the Americans would have to unite as mentioned before and it was evident with the radicals (composed of artisans, farmers, assemblymen,

Winthrop’s political theory developed from an early age. As a religious man, one would expect him to be a preacher, but he found his calling through law and leadership. Because he was such a devout Puritan, he was chosen to spearhead the project of establishing the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which was originally purposed for economic uses. This changed when the group elected him as governor, which altered the purpose of the colony to be more religious in nature. As a result, this group of Christians made an “exodus” from the old world with the mindset of establishing a “true Christian society”, much like the Jews fleeing from Egypt, as described in the first testament, book of Exodus in the Bible. They felt it was not only a privilege but a duty of God, and as the metaphorical and literal hands of God, to uphold the values of a true Puritan society. This cemented in him a purpose to erect a community that would be that “Citty on a Hill” that is so famously quoted.

“Is there a single trait of resemblance between those few towns and a great and growing people spread over a vast quarter of the globe, separated by a mighty ocean?” This question posed by Edmund Burke was in the hearts of nearly every colonist before the colonies gained their independence from Britain. The colonists’ heritage was largely British, as was their outlook on a great array of subjects; however, the position and prejudices they held concerning their independence were comprised entirely from American ingenuity. This identity crisis of these “British Americans” played an enormous role in the colonists’ battle for independence, and paved the road to revolution.

Secondly, undocumented immigrant face abuse and unfair treatment from either employers or coworkers, such as threats, paid low wages, etc. Many undocumented immigrants are often treated with disrespects and often taken advantage by the people they work for. Employers might feel free to pay low wages and ignore dangerous conditions because the workers have no legal way of complaining. If they go to the authorities, they risk being arrested themselves and deported. If they complain or make trouble in other ways, the bosses can call immigration and have them taken away. In the article, “Protecting undocumented workers” by Harold Meyerson, It tells a story about Josue Melquisedec Diaz and his crew who are undocumented immigrants

Wiping away tears, Daniel Franco said the most memorable day of his life was when he received a United States identification card.

It is easy to interpret the American Revolution simply as a struggle for freedom. The magnanimous phrases of the Declaration of Independence have embedded in our hearts and minds glorious images of the Founding Fathers fighting for the natural rights of man. The American Revolution, however, also had a darker side to it, the side of self-interest and profit. The signers of the Declaration represented various classes – the working class, the wealthy land owners and merchants, the intellectuals, and the social elite. Each of these strata had its own set of expectations and fears, which lent a new dimension to the cause of the Revolution. The pressure of these internal, and often overlapping groups, combined with the oppressive external

Before Minuteman there was an abandoned warehouse with a janitor as its only employee. Until one day, a recently fired principal named Freddy saw this abandoned warehouse driving home and decided to build a new school that he could run and make the students that attended miserable. For just like the catholic god, who created the heavens and earth in six days and rested on the seventh, Freddy took seven days to work up the blueprints of his new school. On the first day he designed the in school suspension room (ISS) to punish the children foolish enough to get sent there. Next, on the second day he designed the cafeteria as a large rectangular room with a high sailing and put a skylight in it to blind the children as they ate. On the third day Freddy went to work on the trades hall giving it no heating or cooling system this way it would be way to hot in the spring or summer and freezing in the winter. About half way through the week on the fourth day Freddy personally thought he had a stroke of genius with his idea to build something he called the IRC. The IRC was a large square like surface in the center of the school that added about one to two minutes of walking time to get to whatever class you had next.