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    Summary of Nathaniel Philbrick's Bunker Hill
    Summary of Nathaniel Philbrick's Bunker Hill
    Summary of Nathaniel Philbrick's Bunker Hill
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    Summary of Nathaniel Philbrick's Bunker Hill

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    Book Preview: #1 I was extremely nervous and excited to go to a predominantly white school. I struggled to make new friends because I was always thinking about how I looked, spoke, and acted.

    #2 I was not alone in my struggle to understand my new classmates. I was extremely nervous about going to school, because I was not one of the popular girls, and I was sure that they would make fun of me. But I was also not aware of the racial divide in the school, and it troubled me.

    #3 I was convinced that my skin color had something to do with the disconnect I felt with other people. I went on to study social psychology, and race and identity have always been central to my research.

    #4 The fusiform face area, or FFA, is a region in the brain that helps us distinguish the familiar from the unfamiliar, and it also responds more strongly to faces that are the same race as the person doing the scanning.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIRB Media
    Release dateFeb 23, 2022
    ISBN9781669351573
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      #1

      In the middle of December 1773, in the largest meeting house in Boston, Josiah Quincy, a lawyer and delegate to the Continental Congress, spoke about the three ships carrying East India tea. He warned that the country needed to think carefully about what they were doing.

      #2

      The last decade had been a time of increasing conflict and anxiety. Many regarded the passage of the Stamp Act in 1765 as the beginning of all their problems, but it went back much further than that.

      #3

      The French and Indian War, which was fought on the colonies’ behalf, saddled Great Britain with a debt of about $22. 4 billion in today’s U. S. currency. The ministry decided that it was time the colonies began to help pay for their imperial support.

      #4

      The colonists were not willing to contribute to the upkeep of the British Empire, and instead focused on opposing any plan the British government put forward. When the old Puritan sense of certainty was combined with New England’s proven ability to fight, it was not surprising that Massachusetts opposed the Stamp Act.

      #5

      The American Customs Board was created to facilitate the collection of customs duties, which went toward paying the colonies’ collective tab back in Great Britain and also helped pay the salaries of the customs officers.

      #6

      The British Parliament passed a law in 1773 that offered tea to the American colonies at a reduced price of two shillings per pound, but included a tiny tax of three pence per pound, which was strongly objected to by the Boston patriots.

      #7

      The Boston Tea Party was a huge event that showed the whole world how Americans felt about the British government. It was a clear message that they were not happy with the taxes they were being charged, and they would not stand for it.

      #8

      Boston had always been a town on tiptoe. It was a small island surrounded by two endless wildernesses: the ocean to the east and the country to the west.

      #9

      Boston’s topography contributed to the city’s seemingly nonsensical pattern of streets. Rather than following any preconceived grid, the settlement’s original trails and cart paths had done their best to negotiate the many hills and hollows, cutting across the slopes at gradual angles to create a concave crescent of settlement within which more than fifty wharves and shipyards extended from the town’s eastern edge.

      #10

      That afternoon, the streets of Boston were flooded with people talking about the incident. A crowd gathered outside Malcom’s house, and he took

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