The Power of Civil Disobedience Throughout History
Explore the significance of civil disobedience in challenging unjust laws and promoting social change through historical events like the Boston Tea Party and Thoreau's stand against slavery. Learn how individuals have leveraged their conscience to defy immoral laws and spark movements for justice, inspiring peaceful protests and acts of resistance.
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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE When is your conscience more powerful than the law?
WITHOUT VIOLENCE Refusal to go by a law that is immoral or unjust in itself, or furthers injustice. Appeals to the mass sense of justice, in order to get them to think about it again and change public policy.
OUR COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED ON IT In 1772, groups of colonists began to create committees of correspondence, which would lead to their own Provincial Congresses in most of the colonies. In two years, the Provincial Congresses or their equals rejected the Parliament and effectively replaced it with a British ruling apparatus in the former colonies, coming together in 1774 with the coordinating first continental congress. Britain imposed a series of direct taxes followed by other laws intended to demonstrate British authority, all of which proved extremely unpopular in America. Because the colonies lacked elected representation in the governing of the British Parliament, many Americans considered the laws to be illegitimate and a violation of their rights as Englishmen.
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY The Boston Tea Party was one of the key events in the American Revolution. It was a the result of the Tea Act enforced by British Parliament to restore the East India Company full refund on the 25% duty imposed for importing tea into Britain. It also permitted the company to export tea to the American colonies on its own account and led to a number of protests from the colonies. On December 16, 1773, a group of colonists boarded the three shiploads of taxed tea in Boston and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE TO END SLAVERY Henry David Thoreau s reputation began when he was jailed for not paying a poll tax in 1840. The tax supported the war with Mexico and slavery, which he strongly disagreed with. Thoreau did pay his other taxes. The term civil disobedience in the title of his essay argues in favor of non- violent opposition to slavery and for waging war on Mexico.
IT CAN BE A SMALL ACT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdXhWS7lLvs
THESE PEOPLE DID MUCH GREATER THINGS Miep Gies Oskar Schindler
LIVE FOR PEACE Leo Tolstoy Mahatma Ghandi
LIVE FOR PEACE Nelson Mandela Archbishop Desmond Tutu
LIVE FOR PEACE Julia Butterfly Hill Cindy Sheehan
LIVE FOR PEACE Phillip Berrigan Rosa Parks
LIVE FOR PEACE 14thDalai Lama Cesar Chavez
THE ASSIGNMENT Research a figure who participated in civil disobedience. Take notes on their life, education, act, and influence. Create a Prezi that represents this person through visual effects, sound, and quotes. http://prezi.com/kpfeybbfyk44/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=co py Create an MLA work cited. Get inspired!!!!
