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What do you do when you see injustice unfolding? Do you stand and fight? People who do are often called traitors, agitators or rabble-rousers. These are the people who are often the driving force toward change.Throughout American history, people who worked to radically change society have been criticized, arrested, and even killed. Rebels and Revolutions: Real tales of Radical Change in America for ages 9 to 12 explores the lives of five firebrands who used muskets and marches, boycotts and lawsuits in their struggle for justice. When he was only 15 years old, Joseph Plumb Martin committed treason when he joined the Continental Army to fight for American independence. What did this teenager feel so strongly about that he was willing to break the law?Sengbe Pieh's fight for freedom took him from the bowels of a slave ship to the nation's highest court. In 1944, the U.S. government began drafting people being held in military camps to fight in World War II. A group called the Fair Play Committee refused until their families were allowed to return to their homes. In the days of the segregated south, Claudette Colvin was denied the most basic rights because of her black skin. One day, this teenager refused to relinquish her seat on the bus to a white woman. After a childhood of toiling in California's fruit and vegetable fields, Cesar Chavez challenged the power of the agricultural industry. He became a voice of hope for thousands of poor migrant workers. Young readers will be inspired by these five rebels who refused to accept the status quo. They acted boldly, provoked change, and fundamentally changed American history. Rebels and Revolutions: Real tales of Radical Change in America is the fifth book in a series called Mystery & Mayhem, which features true tales that whet kids' appetites for history by engaging them in genres with proven track records-mystery and adventure.History is made of near misses, unexplained disappearances, unsolved mysteries, and bizarre events that are almost too weird to be true-almost! The Mystery and Mayhem series delves into these tidbits of history to provide kids with a jumping off point into a lifelong habit of appreciating history. Each of the five true tales told within Rebels and Revolutions are paired with further fun facts about the setting, industry, and time period. A glossary and resources page provide the opportunity to practice using essential academic tools. These nonfiction narratives use clear, concise language with compelling plots that both avid and reluctant readers will be drawn to.

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Children's

USA

United States of America

20th century

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Publié par	Nomad Press
Date de parution	15 août 2017
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781619305496
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Contents
Introduction
Are You a Rule Breaker?
Chapter One
Soldier of the Revolution
When he was 15 years old, Joseph Plumb Martin joined the Continental Army to fight in the Revolutionary War. History sees him as a hero, but what if the United States had lost its bid for freedom?
Chapter Two
Make Us Free
Sengbe Pieh s fight for freedom took him from the bowels of a slave ship to the Supreme Court.
Chapter Three
The Heart Mountain Resisters
In 1944, the U.S. government began drafting people being held in military camps to fight in World War II. Members of a group called the Fair Play Committee refused until their families were allowed to return to their homes.
Chapter Four
A Cry for Justice
One afternoon, during the days of the segregated South, an African American teenager named Claudette Colvin refused to give her seat on the bus to a white woman.
Chapter Five
Viva La Causa
Cesar Chavez challenged the power of the agricultural industry and became a voice of hope for thousands of poor migrant workers.
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Introduction
Are You a Rule Breaker?

Have you ever been ordered to do something that was unfair? Such as clean up a mess you did not make or let someone go who rudely cut the line when you d patiently waited for your turn? Most people encounter unfairness sometime in their lives.
What if you were commanded to follow a rule that made you feel like a criminal every day, year in and year out? Disobeying the rule could get you jailed or killed. Would you swallow your pride and follow orders or stand up for your rights, regardless of the consequences?
History is full of people who have been labeled troublemakers because they rebelled against rules they believed were unjust. This book tells the stories of five real-life rule breakers.
Joseph Plumb Martin was only 15 when he stood up to the king of England. Joseph joined the Continental Army to help the American colonies fight for independence.
When he picked up a musket and vowed to overthrow British rule in America, Joseph became a traitor. If captured, he would be imprisoned and possibly executed.
Joseph Plumb Martin fought for his country s freedom, but Sengbe Pieh fought for his personal freedom. Kidnapped by slave traders in Africa, Sengbe was shackled in the hold of a slave ship headed for America. He broke free from his chains and led fellow captives in a revolt against the ship s crew. The Africans commandeered the ship and tried to sail back to Africa, but the U.S. Navy captured them. Sengbe was imprisoned on murder charges.
Members of the Fair Play Committee knew what it meant to lose freedom. When the United States went to war with Japan in 1941, the government moved 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry into internment camps. The majority of these people were American citizens. Their crime? A Japanese heritage. In 1944, the government began drafting the men held in the camps to fight in the war.
A group that called itself the Fair Play Committee refused to go along with the draft until families were released from the camps. Fair Play Committee members wanted their families to be allowed to go home. The government refused, and charged members of the group with treason.
Claudette Colvin did not live behind bars, but she did live in a kind of prison. As a black teenager growing up in Alabama in the 1950s, racist laws restricted her life in many miserable ways. One day, Claudette s tolerance for these rules ran out. She refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white woman. Claudette was arrested.
Cesar Chavez also lived with the injustices of racial discrimination. A Mexican-American migrant worker, he toiled in the fields of California. Long hours, low wages, and brutal conditions kept his family and other farm laborers in poverty. Cesar became the voice of these workers. He stood up to the agricultural industry and demanded better working conditions for the people who labor to pick the nation s fruits and vegetables.
These five individuals fought for their rights and changed history. Their stories might inspire you to become a rebel for the right cause.
Chapter One
Soldier of the Revolution

The morning of April 21, 1775, church bells clanged in the small town of Milford, Connecticut, followed by three rapid gunshots.
Joseph Plumb Martin, who was 15 years old, put down his plow and looked at his grandfather in alarm. I smell a rat, Grandfather said. Without another word, he steered the horse cart for home.
Joseph sniffed.
That was no rat he smelled. It was war.
This is the true tale of Joseph Plumb Martin, a boy who rebelled against the greatest power in the world of the eighteenth century-the British Empire. He did it in defense of his country and his brothers-in-arms.
Joseph Plumb Martin was born in 1760 in Becket, Massachusetts. His father was a pastor who frequently moved. When Joseph was seven, his parents sent him to live with his grandparents on their farm outside Milford, Connecticut.
During the 1760s, the American colonies began to resist trade restrictions placed on them by their mother country, Great Britain. When the British Parliament taxed molasses imports, the colonists smuggled in barrels of the syrupy stuff instead of paying the extra fee. When Great Britain required newspapers and playing cards to be printed on paper that was taxed, Americans boycotted these goods.
As Joseph grew older, the chasm between Great Britain and America grew deeper.
The colonists objected to the arrival of British troops in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1768, sent by the king of England to maintain order. During a chaotic protest on March 5, 1770, British soldiers shot and killed five colonists in an incident named the Boston Massacre.
Tensions simmered as the months passed. On the evening of December 16, 1773, more than 100 colonists climbed aboard three British ships moored in Boston Harbor. The colonists destroyed 340 chests of tea. They tossed 92,000 pounds of the stuff into the sea to protest the British tax on tea.
Joseph was only 13, but he understood a line had been crossed. Outrage swept across Britain. Parliament closed down Boston Harbor and banned town meetings throughout New England. People in Milford began to speak of war.
This talk made Joseph nervous. He was convinced he must be a coward. What, he wrote years later, venture my carcass where bullets fly! That will never do for me. But his attitude changed that morning in 1775 when the church bells pealed. Joseph did not follow Grandfather home. Instead, he headed to the village.
The boys and men of the community were gathered at Clark s Tavern, their blood running high. Joseph soon learned why. On April 19, British troops had fired on colonial militia in Lexington, Massachusetts. Called Redcoats, the British soldiers killed eight men. Later that day, American militia and the Redcoats battled in nearby Concord and more men died on both sides.
War was no longer a rumor.
At Clark s Tavern, men were being paid to enlist in the Continental Army to defend the American colonies from the British. New recruits would head out in just days.
The sight of the money caused seeds of courage to sprout in Joseph. But he was too young to enlist without his grandfather s permission.
Grandfather refused to give it, and Joseph sank into a glum silence.
The morning the recruits left Milford, Joseph marched with them to the town line. Some of his friends had enlisted and envy filled Joseph s heart.
When the fighting ended, these buddies would swagger back to town, bragging about all their hairbreadth escapes. Joseph would have no stories to tell. O, he thought, that was too much to be borne by me.

Days passed. Joseph tilled the same fields and milked the same cows. Each day was just like the one before. Joseph considered enlisting without his grandfather s permission, but just could not do it. His grandparents had always been kind and generous. But if they ever did something really unfair, Joseph decided, he would enlist in the army in a heartbeat, without a speck of guilt.
Although he knew it was rotten, Joseph began to pray that his grandparents would wrong him in some way. In the fall, Joseph s prayers were answered.
One thing Joseph loved was his grandfather s playdays. After weeks of hard work during spring planting and fall harvesting, Joseph was allowed a full day with no work. In the fall of 1775, Grandfather said that as soon as the winter grain crop was planted, Joseph could have a playday. Joseph wanted to attend a graduation ceremony in nearby New Haven.
You shall go, Grandfather promised. You shall have your choice of our horses to ride there, and I will give you some pocket money.
Joseph and his friends concocted a thousand and one plans for the fun they would have.
Two days before the graduation, Grandfather sent Joseph to rake hay in a nearby salt marsh. These swampy grasslands are created when silt washes over coastal lowlands. Farmers cut the salt marsh hay with scythes, and once it dried, they raked it into haycocks. These rounded piles protected the grass from moisture until it could be carted away.
On graduation day, Joseph woke early but Grandfather was not the