John Dickinson

(noun)

An American lawyer and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Wilmington, Delaware. He was a militia officer during the American Revolution, a Continental Congressman from Pennsylvania and Delaware, a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, President of Delaware and President of Pennsylvania

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Examples of John Dickinson in the following topics:

  • Economic Retaliation and Reaction to the Townshend Acts

    • Dickinson's Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
    • The most influential colonial response to the Townshend Acts was a series of twelve essays by John Dickinson entitled "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania," which began appearing in December 1767.
    • Eloquently articulating ideas already widely accepted in the colonies, Dickinson argued that there was no difference between "internal" and "external" taxes, and that any taxes imposed on the colonies by Parliament for the sake of raising a revenue were unconstitutional.
    • Dickinson warned colonists not to concede to the taxes just because the rates were low, since this would set a dangerous precedent.
    • Dickinson sent a copy of his "Letters" to James Otis of Massachusetts, informing Otis that "whenever the Cause of American Freedom is to be vindicated, I look towards the Province of Massachusetts Bay."

  • Pursuing Both War and Peace

    • When the Second Continental Congress convened in May 1775, most delegates supported John Dickinson in his efforts to reconcile with George III of Great Britain.
    • However, a small faction of delegates, led by John Adams, argued that war was inevitable.
    • At the same time, the British also confiscated a letter authored by John Adams, which expressed frustration with attempts to make peace with the British.

  • Conclusion: The Fight for Independence

    • In the petition, the Second Continental Congress, as drafted by Pennsylvania delegate John Dickinson, swore loyalty to the Crown and requested tax reforms to ease existent tensions.
    • By June 1776, the Second Continental Congress had appointed a “Committee of Five”, consisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R.

  • The Drake Equation

  • Romanticism in America

    • The poetry of Emily Dickinson—nearly unread in her own time—and Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick can be taken as epitomes of American Romantic literature.

  • Evaluating Sources

    • Examples include Iconclass, British Catalogue of Music Classification, and Dickinson classification, or the NLM Classification for medicine.

  • The Emergence of "American" Literature

    • Emily Dickinson began writing poetry in the 1830s, and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) rose to a prominent reputation in the late 1970s.

  • Is anyone out there?

  • The requirements for life

  • Requirements for plant and animal life