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Hints on Teaching Civics

Hints on Teaching Civics

Martin, George Henry

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1151694185
ISBN13: 9781151694188
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 24
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.05 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1896 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIL TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION. A Majority of the pupils in the schools, if asked to name the principal cause of the American Revolution, will answer, Taxation without representation. If asked what they understand the phrase to mean, most of them will say that the Americans objected to being taxed by the English government because they were not represented in Parliament. These pupils believe that the Americans desired to be so represented, and would have willingly paid the taxes had such representation been granted them. Another idea, quite common, is that the first experience of the colonists in tax-paying came with the Stamp Act. The text-books used are in part responsible for these mistakes. In many of these books the local governments in the colonies are scarcely mentioned, and in none of them is the political life of the people made sufficiently prominent. That local affairs were managed before the Revolution just as they are managed now, by town officers in New England, and county officers in the Southern colonies; that roads and schools were paid for as now, by taxes levied by the people themselves; that the colonial legislatures levied taxes to support the courts, and to equip troops for the Indian wars, --these are facts presented, if at all, with too little emphasis to impress them on the minds of the students. And the matter of colonial representation in Parliament is not always stated so as to insure accurate knowledge. One text-book says, The immediate occasion of that struggle may be found in the persistence of the British ministry in taxing the colonies, while at the same time they denied them representation in Parliament. The inference certainly is that the colonists desired representation, else how could it be denied?. An e...

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