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Make Up Post: Timeline

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1.  The Second Continental Congress is in chapter 5 under the Heading "The Second Continental Congress Organizes for War" on page 165. 2.  The Second Continental Congress is mentioned in the context of their handling of British negotiations and organizing the Patriot Militia into the the country's fighting force. While George Washington was the general the congress was in control of what battles were fought. 3.  https://www.amazon.com/Americas-History-Course-Beford-Integrated/dp/1457628937 4.  5. While learning how to navigate and use our EBook todays assignment was used to teach us how to contextualize and parse research in history.

Consumerism: Ripple Effect

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     When talking about food, there is no food with a stranger and more interesting history, or that had a larger rippling effect on consumerism than the graham cracker. Beginning in the 18th century with the birth of the final of his seventeen siblings, Sylvester Graham. His father died soon after his birth and his other was locked away for hysteria, so he spent his childhood moving from house to house usually with a family that owned a bar. This is where his deep hatred for alcohol and sex was fostered. As he grew up he became a baptist minister and when the Second Great Awakening began, he was already developing his new Grahamite diet.  It would contain no sugar, no white flour, no alcohol, and NO FLAVOUR. Why such extremes you might ask, and that would be because such foods are obviously the reason people have sexual urges, especially those to masturbate which Graham thought of as the ultimate evil. This while sounding absolutely ludicrous to modern day Americans...