Class Discussion

Our group met at our usual time and place. At first we did not know where to start, but once we got the ball rolling, I think we had a good discussion. What worked with our discussion was that it was not very formal. The casual format of the dicussion made it easier to throw out topics we have not covered or which confused us. One thing we talked about in the discussion that we thought we had not covered in class was why the colonies came to being "against" Europe. We talked about how taxation was one of the factors. Another factor was that how the colonies were ruled from far away and yet they had their own government within the colonies. We discussed what it means to have a perfect society. In our opinion we thought that the people's ideal of a perfect society was to be "pure" meaning white, the same, and uniform. But we also kept in mind how different people had their own idea of a perfect society.