Today in Social Studies, the class was a little different. Instead of reviewing something we already learned, Mr. Armstrong gave us the whole class time to learn on our own. We did an activity about five laws(Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Townshed Acts, Tea Act, and Intolerable Acts) where we had to find the date of the laws and how the colonists reacted towards those laws. The laws were to tax the colonists so they could pay for the outcome of the French and Indian war after Great Britain had won. The unfair laws lead to many boycotts, protestings or rebellions, and the forming of the Sons of Liberty and the Daughters of Liberty. In 1764, when the first law to earn money, which was the Sugar Act, people thought it was unfair and refused to buy goods. In 1765, because of the boycott, the new law was passed. The Stamp Act was a law that required people buying any paper goods to buy stamps. The, the Sons of Liberty formed, and they either used violence to scare the tax collectors, or just refused to buy stamps. That caused colonial courts to shut down. After the Parliament got rid of that law, another law called the Townshed Acts was formed on June in 1767. This time, another group called the Daughters of Liberty formed, and they supported protestants. Because people were refusing to buy many British goods, the law was disabled, and the Tea Act, which was taxing tea goods, formed. Irate colonists disguised themselves as Indians, and dumped three hundred fourty chests of tea that were on three ships. Because they had to pay for the loss of so much goods, the Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts and got the colonists angrier.
I think that this type of class could be useful from time to time, but I think that after working on your own, if there was a time where we could ask the teacher about things we didn't understand, just like we do during reviews, it would help to understand the topic better. I also think that the activity helped me because I had to read the whole passage to understand just one part of it.
Joseph K.
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