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US History (Monday, January 23, 7th period)

Josh was looking a little cranky today. Could have something to do with the announcements Principal Smith had made about a certain old colleague of his.

"Okay, last week we talked about Massachusetts and Virginia. Today, we're going to blow through all of the history that happened before the Revolutionary war. That's right. 150 years of history in an hour. Prepare to take notes."

Josh then gave a very terse rundown of life in colonial America, lacking much of his normal snarky humor.

He looked up. "Okay, you now have thirteen colonies to choose from--where would you live now? Bonus points if you say Connecticut or New Hampshire, but only if you can back it up with reasons other than 'because the teacher told me I'd get bonus points.'"

He sat down at his desk. "Homework for the day is to give me at least a hundred words ~~from Wiki~~ about the French and Indian War. That war'll be very important as we talk about the Revolution, so be sure to look for any names that seem familiar." He raised an eyebrow. "A hint for you out-of-towners: Washington DC was named for the Washington who first shows up in the French and Indian War."

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Lana signs in.

Veronica signs in

Cally signs in, yay!

Piper signs in.

Quinn signs in.

Shep signs in. ~~If Mr. Lyman thinks C.J.s issues are a problem for him, he should be really, really glad he's not Shep today.~~

Chloe signs in.

Blair signs in.

Jake signs in

Chiana signs in ~~finally... stupid LJ~~.

Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia. Where would you want to be in the mid 1700s?

"Sorry, Professor. I'm going with Pennsylvania. Largely because Pennsylvania had religious freedom for all religions, as well as acceptance for Native Americans. This led to significantly healthier relationships with the local Native tribes (the Lenape and Susquehanna, mainly) than most other colonies had."

"Oh, Pennsylvania was definitely where the fun stuff was happening. Virginia, New York, and Massachusetts, too, of course." Josh grinned. "And if I could meet anyone from history? Ben Franklin would definitely be on the short list."

"Yeah, he sounds like he was a pretty unique guy," Lana replies. "He seems to have been involved in so many different things!"

"I think I'd have liked being in Pennsylvania," Veronica says. "That's where all the important political action happened in the 1700s, like the drafting of the Declaration of Independence. It would have been exciting."

~~also? because Pittsburgh's goin' to the Superbowl!!~~

"Yeah, Pennsylvania--and Philadelphia in particular--would have been fascinating," Josh replied. "And a chance to see Jefferson, Adams, and Washington in person? Would be amazing." He raised an eyebrow. "Anyone know if anyone around here knows how to travel back in time?"

OMG, Go Seahawks, yo! *waves West Coasty flags*

"Around here? Probably," Veronica said with a chuckle.

~~Rhode Island, because John Hopkins rocks my world~~

"Well, Rhode Island seems kinda like me, in a way. It totally jumped on the independance bandwagon first, meaning they were eager and stuff. But then when it came to your Constitution thing? They were totally all slow and stuff. So, through that strange reason of metaphysics... Rhode Island." Cally nods.

"Rhode Island really did enjoy making a nuisance of itself," Josh said with a small smile. "A tradition it continues well into the modern era. I mean, the size of it? I'm pretty sure they are mall parking lots that could be bigger than Rhode Island."

~~Or, you know, Stephen Hopkins, if my brain would like to function properly. Stupid me.~~

"Really? It's small? One more thing we share in common, then." Cally smiles.

"I have to agree with Lana and Veronica. Pennsylvania would have been a very interesting place to live. I think being there while the Declaration of Independence was signed would have been a very unique experience."

~~Had to go with my state, yo. ;)~~

Quinn looks up from her text message and replies, "New York has good shoes. I'll go there."

Chloe's brave and decides to go for the bonus.

"I'd want to live in Connecticut because they were more prosperous than the South, in addition to having less disease and famine than places like Virginia, and although there weren't quite as many settles and they weren't quite as well off as places like Massachusetts, they also didn't have the crazy Puritans making everyone intermarry and stay in incestuous clans."

Blair thought for a long time. "I can see the advantages and disadvantages of all of those places. But I think I'd go with Pennsylvania purely for the benefit of watching history happen."

"I think I'd go for Pennsylvania, for pretty much the same reason as everybody else. Though, if it weren't for the Puritan guys, I'd probably say Massachusetts since they seemed to have alot of the exciting dren happening then too."

The French and Indian War. It's fascinating. Prove it to me.

The conflict is popularly referred to as the French and Indian War in the United States, as it is seen from the perspective of British American forces fighting against French forces and their Algonquin and Huron allies in North America. (British and British American forces had allied with the Iroquois.) In Britain and Canada, the designation French and Indian War is nearly unknown: English Canadians and the British typically refer to the war as the Seven Years' War (1756–1763), dating the war not from the start of actual fighting in North America, but rather from the official declaration of war in Europe. French Canadians refer to it both as la Guerre de sept ans and the Guerre de la conquête (War of the Conquest), since it is the war in which Canada was conquered by the British and became part of the British Empire. In Britain, it is simply regarded as the most important theatre of the Seven Years' War.

The Battle of Fort Niagara was one of the final battles in the French and Indian War.. After a 20-day siege, a British army under Brigadier General John Prideaux forced the surrender of Fort Niagara from the French on July 26, 1759.

The British attack on Fort Niagara was part of a campaign to remove French fortifications from the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley regions. General Prideaux arrived at Fort Niagara on July 6. Captain Pouchot directed a vigorous defence that claimed General Prideaux's life several days into the siege. Command of the British army fell to Sir William Johnson.

The Battle of Carillon was fought at Fort Carillon (later known as Fort Ticonderoga), on the shore of Lake Champlain in what was then the British colony of New York, July 7-July 8, 1758 during the French and Indian War, and resulted in a victory of the French garrison under Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and the Chevalier de Levis, against the overwhelmingly superior numbers of the British attackers under General James Abercrombie.

Some military historians have cited the Battle of Carillon as a classic example of tactical military incompetence. Abercrombie has been criticized for ignoring several good military options such as flanking the breastworks, waiting for artillery reinforcements, or bypassing the fort entirely. Instead he decided in favor of an unsuccessful frontal assault.

The fall of French dominion in Canada and the West left the Algonquin Indians unprotected. The many tribes had lived in harmony with the French, and had been their faithful allies. But now things were different. The French had treated them as equals and brethren; but the English never went out of their way to conciliate them. The French had lavished presents upon them, but the English doled out bare essentials sparingly.

A conspiracy was soon formed to massacre all the English garrisons and settlers along the frontiers of Virginia, Pennsylvania, and the regions of the Great Lakes. The leader of this great movement was Chief Pontiac. Pontiac visited many of the tribes and won them by his extraordinary eloquence. To others he sent messengers, each bearing a wampum belt and a red-stained hatchet. Almost every tribe of the great Algonquin family, and one tribe of the Six Nations, the Senecas, joined in this conspiracy. So adroitly was the plot managed that the attack was made almost simultaneously in all parts, and every English post fell into the hands of the savages except three, -- Detroit, Fort Pitt, and Niagara.

The Battle of Sainte-Foy, sometimes called the Battle of Quebec (1760), was fought on April 28, 1760 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada during the French and Indian War. It was a victory for the French under the Chevalier de Lévis over the British army under General Murray.

Murray felt that his army was too small to defend adequately the walls of Quebec, which had not been improved much since the fall. He therefore moved some 3,800 men into the field, all he could muster, along with over twenty cannons. The battle turned into a two-hour fight at close range.

The British army lost over one thousand, killed and wounded (three-quarters of the officers of the Fraser Highlanders were killed or wounded) and the French almost nine hundred casualties, making the Battle of Sainte-Foy one of the bloodiest engagements ever fought on Canadian soil.

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She swings past his room on her way out, chewing on a gummi worm. "Hey Josh!"

Redhead. Teenager. Calling him by his first name, which none of the students would do.

Smith's announcement.

The pieces clicked together in his head. Josh turned to glare at her. "Claudia Jean, have you been dropped on your head?!

"No. Why? Gaahd, don't be so uptight, Harvard." She smiles brightly and Sits down. "You're cranky."

"I'm supposed to be uptight. I'm a grown-up." He didn't stop glaring. "And so are you, CJ." He ticked points off on his fingers. "Heard the radio the other day. Bar fights? Seriously? Talking back to a guy who owns the theater? You used to work for the President of the United States. Have a little dignity."

"I also used to be just. like. this, Josh. I wasn't always all, you know, tall and tight. I used to have fun. I used to not have to spin people's prostitute friends or worry about, you know...stuff. You're bringing me down, Josh. What's your problem?" She kicks her legs up on his desk and crosses them at the ankle. "Gummi bear?"she offers.

"My problem?" Josh ran his hands through his hair in frustration. "CJ? You're not a teenager any more, whatever you might look like. You're a teacher with responsibilities and obligations to this school and to the kids here who have enough problems without," his hands flailed, "all of this. Hell, there are kids around here behaving more responsibly than you are right now." He pointed at his door. "I don't want your candy. I want my normal, sane friend back. Until you're her? Out. Out out out."

"Dude. I'm doing my job. I talked nice to the security mountie. And I didn't hit that girl back, so it wasn't technically a bar fight, kay? And you go to the movies and I double dog dare you not to mouth off to that guy. Really."

She doesn't get up, and doesn't move except to hold a gummi worm out to him.

"Eat this, it'll make you feel better. Look, I've been here a whole term longer than you. This? Is nothing. This is going to come and go and I'll be the same old Ms. Cregg that they're all scared of. Why they think I'd actually set the room on fire is beyond me. I mean, crap Josh, at least I'm not a freaking rabbit or a flamingo or something, right? I'm just young. So come here, eat a gummi worm, and chill out. Tell me about Montana." and frighteningly enough, she actually sounds interested.

"The guy at the theater's the one who told me about you! He's a nice guy and you owe him an apology."

Josh crossed his arms over his chest and closed his eyes. "I'm serious, CJ. Get out. I have enough trouble dealing with the actual teenagers in my life. Come back when you're a grown up again."

Her bottom lip trembles as she stares at him.

"Really? Like, you can just do that? Just because I look different and need some Ritalin you can throw me away?"

She drops her legs, gets up and runs out crying...leaving her gummi worms on his desk.

Josh sighed and ran a hand through his hair again. "I'm so not getting paid enough to deal with this," he muttered.

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