Powering Tyranny

In Night, Elie Wiesel discussed the dangers of remaining silent while injustices were happening in the world. Many stood by while millions of Jews were mistreated and murdered. 

In Animal Farm, we are noticing how the pigs on the farm are beginning to abuse their own power. 
Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd President of the United States, once said:
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." 
Your task:
1.) Define the word tyranny : Tyranny mean's arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power or despotic abuse of authority.

2.) What does it mean to have a good conscience? To have a good conscience means open minded state of alertness .
3.) In your own words, what does this quote mean to you? Basically to me the quote "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent," means all a bad person needs to become a leader is for the good people to do nothing.

Genocide

The term "genocide" did not exist before 1944. It is a very specific term, referring to violent crimes committed against groups with the intent to destroy the existence of the group. Human rights, as laid out in the US Bill of Rights or the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, concern the rights of individuals.

Westward Expansion

In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson purchased the territory of Louisiana from the French government for $15 million. The Louisiana Purchase stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to New Orleans, and it doubled the size of the United States. To Jefferson, westward expansion was the key to the nation’s health: He believed that a republic depended on an independent, virtuous citizenry for its survival, and that independence and virtue went hand in hand with land ownership, especially the ownership of small farms. (“Those who labor in the earth,” he wrote, “are the chosen people of God.”) In order to provide enough land to sustain this ideal population of virtuous yeomen, the United States would have to continue to expand.

The westward expansion of the United States is one of the defining themes of 19th-century American history, but it is not just the story of Jefferson’s expanding “empire of liberty.” On the contrary, as one historian writes, in the six decades after the Louisiana Purchase, westward expansion “very nearly destroy[ed] the republic.”