The Sacred Willow Summary

Thomas Jefferson’s opinion of how the national government should be run, changed quite a bit over the course of his presidency. He started it off as a strict constructionist as he opposed the excise laws and his opposition to the Alien and Sedition acts. At some point he began to transform into a loose constructionist when he bought the louisiana purchase and he improved our navy to help fight the Barbary war. Somewhere during his presidency his views changed and it was most likely before he bought the Louisiana territory. Before Jefferson entered the presidential office he was a states rights supporter and when the tax on whiskey was placed he opposed it, saying “The first error was to admit it by the Constitution.” (Doc A).

According to document four, the colonists were that they will become slaves to the British. They also fear that having their opinions and needs being disregarded, and be forced to abide by the British’s rule unfairly. As a result, they choose to rebel because they want to be independent and prevent further mistreatment from the British. According to documents five, six, and seven, the King of Britain is a tyrant and sullen-tempered. The colonists fear the tyranny they will be exposed to if they were still under the British’s rule.

Along with pride and territory, British impressment of American sailors was another issue the Americans needed to deal with. The British was forcibly drafting American sailors at sea. Another goal America had in joining the War was to reestablish and secure trade routes with France. The English was blocking American trade with France. Both the impressment of American Sailors and blocking trade with France was spilling over policies England had adopted during the prosecution of the war with France.

The concept of journey is a thematic element often used in literature. In Three Day Road the author, Joseph Boyden, uses the motif of journey to show transformation in the three main characters. As a part of this motif a character must go on a journey and face hardships in an attempt to reach their goal. This novel follows the main character, Xavier and his time at the front line in World War 1. The point of view switches between Xavier, who tells about his time at war with his deceased friend Elijah, and Niska, Xavier’s aunt and a windigo killer, who tells about her life and Xavier’s childhood.

Harriet lived next to Samuel Clemens or, Mark Twain, in Hartford Connecticut. Her husband, Calvin Stowe, was a theology professor. Unfortunately, like many parents in the 19-century, her 18-month old son, Samuel Charles Stowe, died of cholera. This crushing pain is what inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin, it helped her understand the pain enslaved mothers must feel when their children are taken away from them. Her book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was translated into over 60 languages and sold over 300,000 copies in its first year of being

was born in 1932 in New Orleans to Andrew Young and Daisy Young. Two years later they had another son named Walter. His father was a dentist while his mother was a school teacher. He was born to a middle-class family during a very tumultuous time in America. Roosevelt had just been elected president during America’s Great Depression, World War 2 was on the horizon, and Jim Crow was strongly present in the south.

Lao Tzu describes the emotion of love perfectly by saying, “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” Johnathan Safran Foer’s book, Everything is Illuminated, is a story that recalls stories from the past about a destroyed town called Trachimbrod. Our author creates fictional stories about his past generations, and he creates a fictional family. That family would be Alex, his younger brother, Grandpa, and his father. Alex, Johnathan, and Alex’s grandpa set out on an adventure to find a woman named Augustine who saved Johnathan’s grandfather from the Nazis. Along the way on their adventure, we hear stories about the creation and destruction about Trachimbrod.

After the French gained their rights, people in Haiti started to fight because they wanted to have the same rights that French gained during the reform. Locke’s ideas have given Frenchmen the courage to fight against the strict government. During the reign of Louis XIV, nobles’ power was strictly limited. By making the nobles live in Versailles, Louis could easily watch over his nobles. Later, Louis XVI took over the throne.

Great Britain was in bitter dog fight with Napoleon Bonapartes France. They wanted to cut off supplies from reaching the enemy sides which lead to the block of the United States from trading with the other. Around 1807-1808 Britain passed the Orders in Council to require neutral countries to obtain a license from its authorities before trading with France. The U.S. Congress repealed Thomas Jefferson’s unpopular Embargo Act, by restricting trades. This cause hurt Americans more than either Britain or France.

A goal of the French Revolution was that the third estate became eager to have an actual leader that would pay attention to their needs so they because the National Assembly and agreed on the tennis court oath. They also wanted to create a new government but king Louis XVI wouldn’t sign it off so the National Assembly got mad and they overthrew the bastille. The bastille was a jail where all the prisoners were being kept. The third estate created the Declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen to express these goals. The goal of the American Revolution was to get away from the British government and be free.