A History Lesson

Today I am going to talk about what I learned in school today. Mainly just in my first class Civics and Economics.  We learned about the American Revolution, what went on, how did it start, outcome,battles, who won,  and how it ended.

The first thing the class and I did was watch a video. It was a remix of a song Apologize that dealt with King George and how the Americans are not going to take it him bossing us around any longer. So the Americans set up this fighting tactic called guerilla fighting.

The second thing was a compare and contrast chart between the Americans and the British. I didn’t get everything on the British side because my teacher went on ahead because we were out of time. But I will try my best to remember what I wrote. But that is all I wrote down in class.
    Americans                                British
- slow destruction                            - break the colonies in half
- guerilla tactics
- alliance with Great Britain's enemies

The third thing we did was take notes and do definitions. For example: more British soldiers died than American soldiers, but the British still won. The battle of Lexington and Concord was considered the shots heard around the world. Saratoga was the turning point of the war and Cornwallis surrenders.

We learned what the definition of a loyalist and a patriot was. A loyalist is a person that supported and helped Great Britain win the war. A patriot is a person who supported George Washington  and wanted America to win the Revolutionary war.

After all the assignments and notes for the class the teacher told us we could work on our project. The teacher all assigned us one of the thirteen colonies ( I got New Jersey) and it is an individual project.