Events in American History

1. Do you think the colonies had good reason to declare Independence? Why?

2. Should one country be able to colonize another? When should a colony be granted Independence?

3. The Bill of Rights guarantees Americans "the right to bear arms". Many Americans still feel this is important for personal safety and in case they need to revolt  against their own government, They argue that the Minutemen and the local militias only won the fight for Independence beacause they had firearms.

What do you think?

Should everyone have the right to bear arms? All kinds of arms?

4. If you were to present your nation's history in the same way as above, which events would you choose? Why?

- List the events and write a couple of sentences about them. 

1. Yes, I think they had good reasons to declare independence because they should not have to pay taxes for King George III because the war had been expensive for him.

2. One country should not be able to colonize another if the country is doing fine. If a country are falling apart they maybe need that another country comes in to take control to help them.

3. I think that many Americans feel that they need to protect their selves, their families and loved ones by having a gun because of the school shootings and other episodes where innocents has been killed for no reasons by peoples with guns. I can understand that. In America crimes and shootings happens more often than here in Norway or here in Scandinavia. If you envision the amount of people who are like mental ill and kills someone here you can imagine how many more there are in America. Not everyone should have the rights to bear arms, but I think it is impossible to keep the guns away from the people who should not be able to bear them.

4. 

 v  The Viking period.

 v  The union with Norway and Denmark

 v  Norway’s constitution

 v  World War 2

 v  Norway discovery of oil