Octavian Nothing (Ani, Asher, Megan, Ned, Gabe) Context Final HF Meeting

Context (Ani):

The American Philosophical Society (APS) was inspiration for the Novanglian College of Lucidity:

• The APS has played an important role in American cultural and intellectual life for over 250 years, promoting useful knowledge in the sciences and humanities through research, meetings, library resources, and community outreach.

• It was founded in 1742  

Octavian was inspired by multiple people, including Benjamin Banneker:

• Benjamin Banneker was born on November 9, 1731, in Ellicott's Mills, Maryland.
• He was a free black who owned a farm near Baltimore and was appointed by President George Washington to the District of Columbia Commission.

By 1775, tensions between the American colonies and the British government approached the breaking point, especially in Massachusetts, where Patriot leaders formed a shadow revolutionary government and trained revolutionary war.

In June 1775 congress had Georgia militias to prepare for armed conflict with the British troops occupying Boston.  

This was the Washington besiege the city of Boston which was the “redcoats’” base. The siege started the Revolutionary war. The siege began on April 19th and ended on March 17, and before that fights had broken out at Bunker Hill, Lexington and others.

Sites:

History.com

en.wikipedia.org

http://www.amphilsoc.org/

http://www.biography.com/people/benjamin-banneker-9198038

Mountvernon.org

Taken from:

• HF: Context Director (Gabe)
• HF 2: Context Director (Gabe)
• HF 3: Context Director (Asher)

Fever Context.

Write the Major Event/Historical Figure’s Name Here

Choose the best research (you may combine several different pages of notes) from previous meetings and revise, adding details and images (maps, historical illustrations, etc) to include, as well as several cited sources (Wikipedia may only be one).

Stephen Girard was in the book a man who oversaw a mansion turn into a hospital and hired doctors and nurses to help citizens heal from the Yellow Fever. In real life he did exactly the same. Also he took charge again in the outbreak in 1788-1789. After the Yellow Fever he opened a bank in Philadelphia and lived the rest of his life running it.

Dr. Benjamin Rush the doctor in Fever was a founding father and signed the Declaration of Independence. He fought for women’s rights and opposed slavery. He strived to learn more about mental disorders and was one of the founders of american psychiatry. The doctor focused on the poor and his status grew. When Rush was appointed to surgeon-general of the middle department of the Continental Army.

·      In 1793 a horrible pestilence called yellow fever started in Philadelphia.

·      A group of refugees who escaped turmoil in the Caribbean islands, arrived in Philadelphia. Many of the refugees had yellow fever and that it started to spread through Philadelphia.

·      Mosquitoes helped spread the disease by sucking some out of infected people’s blood and biting a healthy person, where it would get in their blood and infect them.

·      People thought that yellow fever was a miasmatic disease from rotting vegetables, which is a disease you can get from pollution or “bad air”.

Works Cited:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Rush

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/rush.htm

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/yellowfever.htm

http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/contagion/yellowfever.html   

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Girard

http://www.ushistory.org/people/girard.htm