How Do Ordinary People Develop A Sense Of Agency?

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Ordinary people can change the structure of our society in their daily lives. According to the Franks’s Asian Pacific American History, Agency is a term used to describe people making history. People can assert agency by grouping together and forming protests, joining labor movements and campaigning for a presidential candidate that represents them. There are many events in the past and present that individuals have strongly assert a sense of agency. Throughout our history, we understand how American Indians, blacks, and whites played a vital role in creating what America is now today. The first Americans were American Indians, however the origins of human being in America is open to dispute. There were generalization about North …show more content…

The Boston Massacre helped widen the gap between American colonist and British in 1770. During this time, a lot of young men were unemployed, and they were angry that only troops were hired to load cargoes from ships. The urban men gather together to cause trouble like throwing snowballs with stone at British troops. Then, the British shot them and five American colonist were killed (Jones, 151). Americans saw them as murders while the troops saw them as terrorist. The citizens like poor whites and farmers didn’t like Parliament imposing taxation without representation. For example, the British helped East India Company to dump tea in America. In the Boston Tea Party of 1773, white immigrants masked themselves as American Indians and board British ships, in order to dump tea into the sea. This further alienated the colonies from the British. Even though no one got hurt, this was seen as a revolt against British authority. The Parliament imposed another law, the Stamp Act of 1765 which require people to spend money for paying card and buy stamp along with it plus tax. The citizens protested against the Stamp Act by organizing secret group called “Sons of Liberty” (Jones, 142). The mob risked their lives to forcefully confiscated the cargo of stamps. The Sons of Liberty encouraged street violence on specific topics. They didn’t stop protesting until the Parliament repeal the Stamp Act in

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