Step One: Select two of the grievances from the list below. No trials by jury Not able to trade freely Unfair taxes Quartering troops in your home Not able to vote for government leaders Standing armies in your neighborhood Judges’ salaries and jobs at the will of the king
Step Two: Write a fictional newspaper story about how two of these events occurred today. Include a title for your story. Incorporate at least two events from the list of grievances in Step One into your story. Pretend that the Declaration of Independence never occurred and that these are still problems in society today.
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HEADLINE: Betsy Ross complains about soldiers sleeping in her house, eating all her food, and running around in her dresses. HEADLINE: Paul Revere falls off horse, while trying to avoid group of soldiers standing on street corner in front of old north church TODAY HEADLINE: National Guard patrols border between Texas and Oklahoma, trying to keep citizens from crossing the line. Guard also used on Arizona-California border to stop smuggling of apples and oranges. taxes paid by citizens of new york and new jersey for these activities. price of orange juice rises in Maryland because of lack of smuggled oranges.
@hba thats from the internet..... they will find out if i found it from there..... so please help me
You are free: to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work to Remix — to adapt the work
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what exactly do you need help on?
an idea of what i can write about........ i chose to do unfair taxes..... what story can i do for that
and i chose to do standing armies!! I started like this... what else can i add? United States-October 15: As Gaby Borges (The famous actress/singer) was getting out of her house she gets pulled back by a soldier. The soldier ties her up, and goes in her house. He decides to take all of her children and husband away. The soldiers put them in the truck and take them away. Gaby gets untied, and goes in her house. Everything is destroyed, there is no food, and her family is missing! She goes running out her door and sees soldiers outside her house surrounding the neighborhood.
Man, I have no clue i'm sorry. this is a dumb assignment lol but it seems like you are heading in the right direction. sorry im not much help
its ok ;/
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