Revolutionary+War+Austinf09

Problem:The day is April 17, 1775. You stand with a group of minutemen across the Lexington Common prepared to stop the British Redcoat's advance. As you stand with your musket on your shoulder, you know all of the men are questioning whether or not they should fire and risk death, or if they should retreat back to the safety of their houses. You decide to step-up to the front and address the assembled Minutemen as the sounds of the Red Coats' drums come down the road announcing their imminent arrival. What do you tell the minutemen? Fight? Flee? Stand their ground? What is the evidence you provide them with to convince them that your directive is the path they should choose.

EQ=Is it necessary for you to fight? Is your evidence worth dying for?

If someone taxed me extra, I'd probably be mad, but I wouldn't kill for it. It just doesn't seem worth all of those lives. But after they kept adding more such as the stamp tax and the Sugar Act, especially when they were in a depression, I might retalliate. I wouldn't want the leader that kept putting on taxes to be my leader anymore. It's very similar to the economic situation we have today. We are about to be taxed more because of that bailout plan that Bush wanted to enact. Anyways, I would hold them off and if they fired the first shot, I would fire back. Especially since they also made British troops stay in the homes of Americans and closed the harbour. But they only did that because some citizens disguised as indians dumped a fortune worth of tea in the harbour.

Citations: http://www.ushistory.org/march/phila/background.htm