unit 2 ass.7

Every day someone breaks the law. Some people have good reasons for doing so. When you think that your rights are being taking away for no good reason then breaking the law is no problem to me as my opinion. During the American Revolution many laws were broken just as they were during the civil rights movements. Some of them were for a good cause and now helps our country out today. Both American Revolution and civil rights movements have a few things in common when it comes to breaking the law and being justified for it.

During the American Revolution the colonists were being mistreated by being taxed for things by the British when they didn’t have the money for the tax. For an example they taxed the tea and order the Americans to pay before a dead line. It was known as the Boston tea party. A group of colonists felt they should stand up for their country and took a boat trip and dumped all the tea in the Boston Harbor. I believe that the colonists were right, because when your country isn’t doing well enough to pay extra money then something must be done.

The civil rights movements had a lot going on from 1955 through 1968. Many African Americans broke the law to make things be equal for all Americans. They would have marches and sit-ins just to share the same rights that the whites had. They didn’t ask for much but too be treated fairly. My opinion on them breaking the law would be that they were right. Everyone deserves to be treated the same; therefore they did have the right to break the law.

Both colonists and the African Americans stood up for their selves and our country. I appreciate what they both did for us today. If they wouldn’t have did what they did who knows how America would be today. I believe that breaking the law can be justified depending on what it is. I give thanks to the colonists and the African Americans form the American Revolution and the 20th century.