Disagreements with Great Britain

Chapter 2 Lesson 3

Bell Ringer

• Generate a list of 5-6 goods that you think the colonists exported during the 1700s?

• (Study for Vocab Quiz when finished)

Social and Political Changes• Great Awakening– 1740s-1760s – Religious movement– Resisted church leaders- build a direct relationship

with God– Question religious authority (Enlightenment- political)– King and Parliament made rules for the colonists • Colonists had little voice

– So far away from Great Britain – Colonists did not get to choose their leaders in the Colony

French and Indian War• Colonies were growing- expanding westward• 1750s Colonists were moving onto territory that

belonged to France (west)• 1756-1763 (Seven Year’s War)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vKGU3aEGss– Fighting between Great Britain and France (with Native

Americans)– Great Britain won and took control of territory to the

Mississippi• Proclamation Line of 1763– King George forbade the colonists from settling in the

lands won from France

Proclamation Line of 1763

Mark line on your Map!

Colonial Dissatisfaction Grows

• Taxes to pay off war debts• Colonists boycotted goods

• Complete the timeline with a partner

Exit Slips

• How did the Great Awakening affect colonial attitudes?

Bell Ringer

• Select one tax that would enrage you as a colonist. Why?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlUiSBXQHCw

Steps Towards Independence• First Continental Congress– Sept. 1774 Delegates from 12 colonies in Philadelphia– Discussed issues within the colonies– Wrote a letter to Great Britain– Boycott of British goods

• Second Continental Congress– May 1775 Lexington and Concord battles were fought– Continue working towards peace or split from Britain?

• Loyalists vs. Patriot

– 1776 Thomas Paine published a pamphlet called Common Sense- made the call for Independence

Steps Towards Independence

• Declaration of Independence– Document telling the world why the colonies should

be free– Influenced by enlightenment thinkers

• Complete the Scavenger Hunt of the Declaration of Independence with a partner on page 65