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Try this American Revolution activity |
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Quick video clips for Am. Rev Inform |
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Study Guide for Am Rev inform |
Study notes for Monday's DCA
I. Trouble onthe Frontier
A. Pontiac’s War 1.British refused to pay Indians for land
2. More colonists moved west 3.Pontiac¬Ottawa chief near Detroit
1 Saw colonists as a threat to Indian way of life –had tribes unite, and captured British fort at Detroit and killed settlers in PA and VA frontier
2 Ended two years later and Pontiac signed a peace treaty
B. Proclamation of 1763
1. Created a boundary at the Appalachian mountains to try to keep peace b/w Indians and colonists
2.Prohibited colonists from moving west
3.Colonists angryb/c some owned land shares beyond the boundary
II. Britain’s national debt
A. At end of French and Indian War¬140 million pounds
1. Debt from paying troop expenses and other debts from war
2.British citizens paid much more than colonists ¬16 pounds more per person(today= 2,000$)
3. Colonists needed to pay part of the cost¬
decided to issue new taxes and enforce existing ones more strictly
4.Colonists were smuggling in goods to avoid taxes, Parliament authorized the right for custom officers to enter and search any locationto look for smuggled goods
III. Taxes
A. Sugar Act (1764)
1 Lowered tax on imported molasses
¬lower to convince colonists to pay the tax instead of smuggling
2 Custom officers could seize goods without going to court
B. Stamp Act (1765)
1. tax on all printed materials, including newspapers, wills, and playing cards¬
all printed materials needed to have the stamp¬got the stamp after paid the tax.
2.Opposition from colonists¬Parliamentinterfered in colonial affairs directly & taxed colonists w/o their consent
C. Protesting
1. Samuel Adams started the Sons of Liberty
2. Organized protests, burned effigies, destroyed homes belonging to royal officials
3. Stamp Act Congress
a. delegates from 9 colonies drafted a petition to send to king declaring colonies could not be taxed except by their own assemblies
D. Boycotting
1 Nonimportation agreements¬
Colonial merchants signed agreements to not buy or use goods imported from Britain
2 British merchants lost so much business they begged Parliament to repeal the stamp act
DeclaratoryAct (1766)
¬Law stated that Parliament had the right to tax and make decisions for the British colonies in all cases
F. Townshend Acts (1767)
1 Tax on glass,tea,and paper
2 Any tax angered coloniesbecause – “No taxation without representation”
3 Organized boycotts,daughters of liberty formed, Parliament repealed all but tax on tea
IV. Trouble in Boston
A. Boston Massacre (March5,1770)
i. More soldiers sent to Boston,soldiers treated colonists poorly
ii. Angry mob of colonists gathered around the Customs house and taunted soldiers, threw rocks, ice balls,
iii. Solider fired into the crowd killing 5 colonists¬Cripus Attucks, known as the first death of the revolution
iv. Created Committee of Correspondence
B. Tea Act (1773)
i. Law allowed East India Company and sell directly to store merchants-monopoly
ii. Boy cotton tea,refused to let ships unload tea
C. Boston Tea Party
i. Sons of Liberty boarded ships at night dressed as Indians and threw 342 chests of tea overboard
D. Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
i. Issued to punish Boston colonists
1 Closed Boston Harbor
2 Banned town meetings in New England
3 Had to house soldiers
4 Had to payback ruined tea
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Sites to help create American Revolution phamplet |
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American Revolution stories |
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Web sites for information on the Am. Revolution |
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Vocabulary to know! |
Chapter 5 Vocabulary
apprentice
Great Awakening
enlightenment
Magna Carta
Parliament
Glorious Revolution
English Bill of Rights
freedom of the press – the right to print or speak the truth without fear of punishment
French and Indian War
Albany Plan of Union
Treaty of Paris
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Proclamation of 1763
representative government – a government where power rests with the people to elect leaders, pass laws
Unit 2... chapter 6 vocabulary
French and Indian War
Proclamation of 1763
Sugar Act
Stamp Act
Writs of Assistance
Townshend Acts
Quartering Act
Intolerable Acts
minutemen
1st and 2nd Continental Congress
Self-determination
Boston Tea Party
1776
Boston Massacre
Lexington and Concord
cannons
equal
Francis Marion
freed
freedom
independence
John Paul Jones
mercenaries
Nathan Hale
Ohio River Valley
Patriots
territory
traitors
Trenton
United States of America
Places and People to know
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Cornwallis
Paul Revere
Samuel Adams
Thomas Paine
George III
John Adams
Benjamin Franklin
Lexington and Concord
Trenton/Princeton
Yorktown
Saratoga
Valley Forge
Bunker Hill
Treaty of Paris, 1783
Understand and be able to explain from our classroom discussions and the reading of chapters 5, 6 & 7 in Glenco the following ideals:
What political, economic, and social factors lead to the American Revolution?
How did self-determination impact the outcome of the American Revolution?
Chapter 7 will begin around Nov. 15th.
Amendment process
Bill of Rights
Federalism
Ratify
Separation of power
Checks and balances
Branches of government
Limited Power of government
Federalist Papers
Articles of Confederation
Philadelphia Convention of 1787
Founding fathers
Republic
English Bill of Rights
Magna Carta
James Madison
George Washington
Alexander Hamilton
Federalist vs. Anti-Federalists
George Mason
Patrick Henry
Land Ordinance of 1785
Northwest Ordinance
Popular sovereignty
3/5 Compromise
Great Compromise
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People to Know |
Samuel Adams, Ben Franklin
King George III, Thomas Jefferson
Marquis de Lafayette, Thomas Paine
George Washington, Patrick Henry,
Benedict Arnold, Paul Revere
Nathan Hale, Crispus Attucks,
Committees of Correspondence,
John Paul Jones,
Lord Charles Cornwallis,
John Hancock, Deborah Sampson,
Mary Ludwig Hayes,
Marquis de Lafayette, Richard Henry Lee
John Burgoyne, Thomas Paine, John Paul Jones, Mercy Otis Warren, Molly Pitcher, Charles Townshend, George III,
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American Revolution Web sites |
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Required viewing... for concepts Declaration of Independence |
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