The Stamp Act: A Short Story

Jahnessa Hernandez Mrs. Shepard Junior English, 6 17 February 2023 Rhetorical Analysis Patrick Henry’s speech given at the Virginia Convention is the most well-known in American History. In his speech, Henry is trying to make the colonists see it is time to rebel against British rule. In the speech “Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death”, By Patrick Henry uses appeals and literary devices to strengthen the message that it is time for the colonists to stand up to the British Tyrant. While under British control the colonists had no freedom and were comparable to slaves. While Mr. Henry is giving his speech he made it clear that “[He] [considered] it nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery”.

Tearing through the village he took no mercy on any man who had dared to look at his beloved. It was rumored that the prince had killed over thirty village men, everyday he promised to come back and get his revenge. The winter of the prince’s twentieth birthday had come, that day Jasper did not step foot in the town and terrorize the village, still wary the villagers waited. A week had passed without a death or an appearance of the leader. Relief had washed over the town.

As the next day came, the streets of Washington were crowded with many protesters. As they marched up to the White House the President and many Congressmen were waiting for them. There was police officers and an audience that were put on hold for Martin Luther King Jr. to give his speech to all of the people

Treated Unfairly Several events that occurred in the years 1763 to 1776 outraged the Britons in America. They felt plagued by taxed, treated unlawfully, and felt that they were being cheated. These events, which mostly included many taxations that were placed by Britain not only led to the Revolution, but also initiated a thirst for unity and representation within the colonies. This eventually led to disputes, charges, and many deaths.

The British Parliament’s first actions that could be considered to set the stage for punitive measures is the Declaratory Act that was debated and enacted in conjunction with the repeal of the Stamp Act. The resistance to the Stamp Act was widespread and had the members of Parliament concerned with whether it was treason or the beginnings of rebellion against the empire. The decreased trade that resulted from boycotts of English goods in part contributed to a depression affecting English merchants. As a result, the new leader of the Parliament Rockingham was faced with a situation where Parliament felt it needed to assert its authority over the Colonies while finding a way to repeal the Stamp Act to reestablish the flow of trade. The resultant

1) In 1765 Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which was the first internal tax on the colonists, At the time, Benjamin Franklin was a colonial agent in London. As colonial opposition to the Stamp Act grew, Franklin found himself representing these views to the British government. Franklin made a testimony against the Stamp Act describing the role of taxes in Pennsylvania and the economic relationship between the colonies and England (94). According to Franklin colonists were paying many, heavy taxes. They were paying taxes for estates, polls, offices, professions, trades, and businesses depending on their income.

The Johnsons are having a difficult time keeping their regular lifestyle with the Stamp Act interfering in the parent’s and children’s lives. When the Stamp Act occurred, it was unlikely for a family not to struggle, unless they were very wealthy. For the Johnsons, they were a family just barely paying their bills. They miss sending letters to their son in the army, and hope to somehow hear from him. On the other hand the Johnsons son and daughter can’t proceed their homeschooling because paper and books are way to expensive.

Today March 22nd, 1765 is a very harsh day for us Anderson’s in South Carolina. Without asking us, British Parliament had passed a Stamp Act that affected more than half of the colonists in South Carolina. I overheard my Mother and Father discussing this topic, “These Lobster backs are taxing us to pay for their French and Indian War debts, why do they make us pay for it?” Dad sounded very frustrated and irritated about this. My little brother John and I could not understand why the British hates us so much

In the “Speech to the Virginia Convention” given by Patrick Henry to the President in 1775, asserts that the colonists should not be trying to negotiate with the British. His purpose was to convince the audience that they should not be trying to befriend the people of Great Britain rather that they should make Great Britain their foe. Henry uses his speech to appeal to both the President and the colonist through the use of figurative language, tone, and syntax. Patrick Henry’s use of diction, a persuasive and forceful tone, appeal to ethos and pathos, as well as various syntactical elements in his “Speech to the Virginia Convention” shows that the colonists should be fighting to break away from the British monarchy rather than negotiate terms to try and stay under their clutches.

and they need to fight. Nothing else is working so fighting is the only working option. Dr. King’s purpose to this speech is to get out the word that the people need to fight with nonviolence. “We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.” Martin Luther King is famous for fighting for equality using non violence.

Everybody is calm until the night time came. They all started to get angry on everyone and start fighting. “Bang,”all the lights went out on Maple Street. Everyone agreed to walk downtown to the police station. Until a boy named Tommy said’’

Sophia is a twelve year old girl who has her whole life together but things change. The British came and invaded territory, so Sophia’s family decided to leave out of the country for a while, when they came back the father decided it was safer for Sophia and her mother to go alone at first. When Sophia and her mother arrived they saw someone getting hung, it was Nathan Hale and he was a spy whom the British caught and were sending him to his death. Sophia tried to stop this, “One of the soldiers kicked the ladder away. The young man dropped.

Occasionally, my dad would sleep in a different room in the house. One day shortly after the end of my fourth grade year, when what was to be a summer to remember, my mom broke the news to me and my brother. It had ended. Mom and dad were getting divorced. I remember feeling shocked and confused.

When my mom started to talk I noticed that whatever she was gonna say she did not want to tell us. I was afraid of what she was going to say. I was hoping with all my might that they were just messing around, but I knew they weren't messing around. I cleared my mind from all thoughts and I was ready to take in what my mom was going to say. My mom took a deep breath and said that my parents were getting a divorce.

Tears fall down Ashlyn’s face as she finds out her mother has passed. The royal guards come running out of her mother’s bedroom, telling the king and the princesses of the bad news. Ashlyn had known her mother had been sick for a while, but she didn’t know her mother would be taken from her this early. It was very tragic and not long after the death, there was a royal funeral for her mom, Queen Isabella. Two years later, and the princesses are still sad, but they have learned to deal with it.