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September 23, 2014

Sep 6­8:02 PM

Objective: Students will be able to distinguish several examples of British actions and colonial reactions

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Hand in homework

Sep 22­11:18 PM

1 “The only representatives of the people of these colonies are persons chosen therein by themselves; and that no taxes ever have been, or can be constitutionally imposed on them but by their respective legislatures.”

­Statement by the Stamp Act Congress, 1765

What is a valid conclusion that can be drawn from this quotation?

A The colonial legislatures should be appointed by the English King with the consent of Parliament.

B Only the colonists’ elected representatives should have the power to levy taxes.

C The English King should have the right to tax the colonists.D The colonists should be opposed to all taxation.

Sep 20­9:53 PM

2 Which heading best completes the partial outline

below?

I. __________________________________

A. Vast timber resources

B. Rocky soil

C. Rich ocean fishing grounds

D. Single­family farms

A factors in the economic development of colonial New EnglandB Reasons for the development of southern plantationsC Features Contributing to Dutch Success in colonial New AmsterdamD Components of the British System of mercantilism

Sep 20­8:12 PM

3 The Mayflower Compact, New England town meetings, and the Virginia House of Burgesses are examples of

A early colonial efforts in self­governmentB colonial protests against British taxationC governments imposed by ParliamentD attempts to limit democracy

Sep 20­9:51 PM

4 The Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights were significant influences on United States constitutional development because they

A provided suffrage for all men and womenB placed limits on the powers of the governmentC called for the abolition of slaveryD supported the development federalism

Sep 20­9:59 PM

5 The results of the French and Indian War

(1754­1763) led to the independence movement

in the thirteen colonies because the British

A lost control of Canada and FloridaB began imposing new taxes on the coloniesC removed the Spanish threat to the coloniesD opened the area west of the Appalachian Mountains to colonial

settlers

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September 23, 2014

Sep 20­10:19 PM

Charts

In your groups complete your assigned terms by defining and explaining them in your own words.

Sep 6­8:02 PM

Line of Proclamation of 1763

What was it?

Why was it important (effects)?

Sep 6­8:02 PM

Stamp Act

What was it?

Why was it important (effects)?

Sep 20­10:13 PM

Quartering Act

What was it?

Why was it important (effects)?

Sep 6­8:02 PM

Townshend Acts

What was it?

Why was it important (effects)?

Sep 6­8:02 PM

The Sugar Act 1764

­ External Tax

­ increased the price of sugar, textiles, coffee

and wine

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September 23, 2014

Sep 6­11:10 PM

Writs of Assistance

• Court order that allowed officers to search for contraband (search and seizure)

• Began in Massachusetts

• Enforced British trade laws

Sep 22­11:03 PM

The British government’s use of writs of assistance against American merchants is one reason the Bill of Rights includes protection against

(1) cruel and unusual punishment

(2) self­incrimination

(3) excessive bail

(4) unreasonable search and seizure

Sep 6­11:13 PM

Committees of Correspondence

• Groups set up by colonists to exchange information about British threats on their liberty

• Letter writing campaign

Sep 6­8:02 PM

Sons of Liberty

Secret organization founded to protect the rights of the colonists

Responsible for the Boston Tea Party

"No taxation without representation"

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Boston Massacre

what was it?

why was it important (effects)?

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Tea Act ­ 1773

­ British East India Company gets special consideration in the tea business and shuts colonists out

Sep 6­11:13 PM

The Boston Tea Party

Colonists dump 18,000 pounds of tea in the Boston harbor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q3_51AD3tg

Sep 6­11:13 PM

Intolerable (Coercive) Acts

what was it?

why was it important (effects)?

Sep 21­11:01 PM

The First Continental Congress­ 1774

what was it?

why was it important (effects)?

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September 23, 2014

Sep 22­10:37 PM

Second Continental Congress

• John Adams suggested each colony set up their own government, and the Congress declare them independent

• A general should be appointed to lead the Continental Army

Sep 22­11:03 PM

American colonists showed their opposition to the British taxation and trade restrictions of the 1760s primarily by

(1) supporting the French against the British

(2) boycotting products from Great Britain

(3) overthrowing the royal governors in most of the colonies

(4) purchasing additional products from Native American Indian tribes

Sep 6­11:13 PM

1775 Lexington and Concord

what was it?

why was it important (effects)?

Sep 6­11:11 PM

Objective: Students will be able to connect ideas of the enlightenment with Common Sense and The Declaration of Independence

Essential Question:

Sep 6­11:17 PM

Let's go all the way back to Global...

The Enlightenment

Sep 22­8:30 PM

John Locke

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September 23, 2014

Sep 22­10:44 PM

The Declaration of Independence

• 1776

• Written by Thomas Jefferson

• Used ideas by John Locke

• Continental Congress delegates voted that the colonies were free!

Sep 6­11:14 PM

Read the Declaration of Independence (pg. 109) and answer the following questions

1. what is meant by "self­evident"?

2. what is meant by "unalienable rights"?

3. According to Jefferson, from what source does government get its power?

4. According to Jefferson, what is the main purpose of government?

5. List 2 grievances against the King.

Sep 6­11:14 PM

Thomas Paine­ Common Sense, 1776In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense. . . .

I have heard it asserted by some, that as America has flourished under her former connection with Great­Britain, the same connection is necessary towards her future happiness, and will always have the same effect. Nothing can be more fallacious than this kind of argument. We may as well assert that because a child has thrived upon milk, that is never to have meat, or that the first twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent for the next twenty. But even this is admitting more than is true; for I answer. . . that America would have flourished as much, and probably much more, had no European power taken any notice of her. The commerce by which she hath enriched herself are the necessaries of life, and will always have a market while eating is the custom of Europe.

But she has protected us, say some. . . . We have boasted the protection of Great Britain, without considering, that her motive was interest not attachment. . . . This new World hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. . . . As Europe is our market for trade, we ought to form no partial connection with any part of it. It is the true interest of America to steer clear of European contentions, which she never can do, while, by her dependence on Britain, she is made the make­weight in the scale of British politics.

Sep 6­11:20 PM

Objective: Students will be familiar with the key events of the American Revolution

Essential Question: What was a turning point in the American revolution?

Sep 6­11:29 PM

Bell Ringer:

The principles of government that Thomas Jefferson included in the Declaration of Independence were most influenced by

1. John Locke’s social contract theory

2. Adam Smith’s ideas of free enterprise

3. Louis XIV’s belief in divine right

4. William Penn’s views on religious toleration

Sep 6­11:21 PM

Bunker Hill

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September 23, 2014

Sep 6­11:21 PM

Valley Forge

Sep 6­11:21 PM

Saratoga

Sep 6­11:21 PM

The Battle of Yorktown