So let us list some of the American History that can no longer be taught if the reactionary members of the Jefferson County School Board get their way.
The Pilgrims: The Religious Sect Who Couldn't Get Along With Anyone
They fled England to the Netherlands because they refused to adhere to the doctrine of the established Anglican Church (Church of England), including obedience to the King. They wanted out of the Netherlands, because while the Dutch Reform Church and the Congregationalists (the Pilgrims) were Calvinist sects, the Pilgrims considered the Dutch a little too worldly, and the Pilgrim's leaders feared that if they stayed, their flock would be corrupted. Unable to get along with the Dutch, they hired a ship and sailed to what would become Plymouth colony, becoming the most extremist and exclusionary group in the New World, driving out or killing anyone (Roger Williams for example) who disagreed with their precepts.
The Salem Witch trials roughly 70 years later were almost certainly the result of an outbreak of rye ergot in their primary bread grain source. Rye ergot is a mold that grows on the rye plant that excretes several forms of lysergic acid, including d-lysergic acid diethylamide 25 (LSD-25) as a waste product, creating the first American "acid trip" 270 years before Haight-Ashbury, the Sunset Strip, and Timothy Leary. But I am fairly certain that the reactionary members of the Jefferson County School Board would prefer the fanciful tales of "witches" be taught, rather than the truth.
America's Thirty Years of Revolution: The Revolutionary War, Constitutional Convention, and "Revolution" of 1800.
"The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave." --Thomas Jefferson to Richard Rush, 1820. The Complete Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Memorial Edition; volume 15, p. 283; 1904.
The Revolutionary period of American History began with the Boston Massacre in December 1770, and ended with the triumph of the common man over aristocracy, as Jefferson's Democratic-Republicans drove John Adams' Federalists out of office in one of the most decisive elections in American history, described by Jefferson as "The Revolution of 1800."
The two Boston Tea Parties were one of the first examples of civil disobedience against a despotic government authority in history. The taking up of arms by the American colonists at Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill were outright acts of revolution, not disobedience. Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence is a template for stating the just cause for every non-Marxist revolution since, and as far as the British government was concerned an act of treason. Only by winning the war did the colonists make the United States of America, under the Articles of Confederation, legitimate.
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