CHAINS
Seeds of America
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Historical Fiction - 1776
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13 Colonies Quiz
Ages: 10 and up
Grades: 5 and up
Author's Web Site
Respond to Ch. 7 and Ch. 8
If you're somebody that doesn't like social studies, this book is for you! It will hook you into what we will be studying the entire year in fifth grade social studies! The author, Laurie Halse Anderson, researched for YEARS before writing this novel about the Revolutionary War. The thing that hooked her into writing this book was learning that Benjamin Franklin, as well as so many of the other Founding Fathers, owned slaves. Authoring this book has everything to do with her personal struggle to understand how Americans could fight for freedom, while at the same time own slaves.
Some of my favorite quotes in the book are from historical documents:
Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.
-Thomas Paine, Common Sense
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We have in common with all other men a natural right to our freedoms without being deprived of them by our fellow men.
-Petition for freedom from a group of slaves to Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage, His Majesty's Council, and the House of Representatives, May 25, 1774
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Sir, we have been too long deaf. We have too long shown our forbearance and long-suffering....Our thunders must go forth. America must be conquered.
-Alexander Wedderburn, Solicitor Gen. of England, to George III, King of England
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The Congress have judged it necessary to dissolve the connection between Great Britain and the American Colonies, and to declare them free and independent states.
-Letter from John Hancock, President of the Continental Congress, to Gen. George Washington
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The demons of fear and disorder seemed to take full possession of all and everything upon that day. - 15 yr. old Patriot soldier
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But as it is, we have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.
-Thomas Jefferson, writing about slavery
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Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries 'TIS TIME TO PART.
-Thomas Paine, Common Sense
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
-Declaration of Independence of the United States of America
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