Pre-AP Agenda: 10/13- 17)
Monday
- No School (European
Disease Victory Day- jk!)
Tuesday
- Begin Unit 3Inner/Outer Circle
- French & Indian War
Wednesday
- Begin the Declaration of
Independence (Part IThe Break Up)
Thursday
- Bucketing Activity
Friday
- Declaration, Part II: The
Grievences
- Declaration Part III: The
Future
- Last Day of the Grading
Period!
This Week’s Agenda: 10/13- 17
Monday
- No School (European
Disease Victory Day- jk)
Tuesday
- Begin Unit 3Inner/Outer Circle
- French & Indian War
Wednesday
- Begin the Declaration of
Independence (Part IThe Break Up)
Thursday
- Declaration Part II: The
Grievances
Friday
- Declaration Part III: The
Future
- Last Day of the Grading
Period!
As you Come In…
On the board by my desk, write
something you know or think you
know about the Revolutionary Era
of America
Tuesday
Details
Stuff You Should Know
In 20 years,
you should remember
The Colonies Before 1763
By 1750, the American colonies were bursting
with growth. In just a century, the population
of the colonies had grown from 50,000 to
more than a million people.
What brought about this rapid growth?
Cheap land? Religious tolerance? Economic
opportunity? All of these were important in
attracting people to the colonies.
But there was another reason…
Adapted from the TCI History Alive text, pages 88-89
For more than a century, the British government
had, for the most part, left the colonies alone to
solve their own problems. During this time,
Americans had learned to govern themselves.
Each colony elected its own assembly. Like the
British Parliament, the assemblies had the power
to pass laws and to create and collect taxes. Each
assembly also decided how the colony’s tax money
should be spent.
Americans had more freedom to run their own affairs
than ordinary people in any country in
Europe. Self-government also made the colonies
attractive to settlers.
Conflict in the Ohio Valley
As the colonies grew, settlers began to dream of
moving across the Appalachian Mountains and into
the Ohio Valley—the region between the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers. Both Great Britain and France
claimed this area. In 1754, the French made…a fort
where the city of Pittsburgh stands today. They
called it Fort Duquesne (du-KANE).
News of the fort alarmed the governor of
Virginia. He ordered a small force of
Virginia militia to drive the French out of the Ohio
Valley. To head the militia, the governor chose a
22-year-old volunteer named George Washington.
Today, Americans remember George Washington as a
great Patriot, a military hero, and the first president of
the United States. In 1754, however, he was just an
ambitious young man with no land or
money. Washington believed that his best chance of
getting ahead was to become an officer in the British
army. There was only one problem… British officers
believed that colonists made terrible soldiers.
The expedition into the Ohio Valley gave Washington a
chance to prove them wrong. Near Fort Duquesne, he
came across a French scouting party that was camped in
the woods. Washington ordered his men to open fire. It
was an easy victory. “I heard the bullets whistle,” he
wrote afterward. “And, believe me, there is something
charming in the sound.”
The French and Indian War
Washington’s whistling bullets were the first shots in a conflict,
…[that] was part of a long struggle between France and
Great Britain for territory and power.
Because many American Indians fought with France in this latest
conflict, the colonists called it the French and Indian War.
In 1755, Great Britain sent 1,400 British soldiers to Virginia to
finish the job that Washington had begun. They were led by a
general named Edward Braddock. The soldiers’ job was to clear
the French out of the Ohio Valley.
Washington joined the army as a volunteer, hoping to make a good
impression on General Braddock. Braddock’s march into the Ohio
Valley was a disaster. The troops’ bright red uniforms made them
perfect targets for French sharp-shooters and their Indian
allies. Two-thirds of the soldiers were killed.
Washington himself narrowly escaped death. “I had four
bullets through my Coat and two horses shot under
me,” he wrote in a letter. Showing great courage,
Washington led the survivors back to Virginia.
There, he was greeted as a hero.
The French and Indian War raged for seven long
years. The turning point came in 1759, when British
troops captured Canada. In 1763, Great Britain and
France signed a peace treaty, or agreement, ending the
war. In this treaty, France ceded, or gave, Canada to
Great Britain.
Americans were thrilled with this victory. Great
Britain now controlled a vastly expanded American
empire. Never before had the colonists felt so proud
of being British. And never before had the future of
the colonies looked so bright.
Green Day’s “21 Guns” asks
“What’s worth dying for?”
Do you know what's worth fighting for?
When it's not worth dying for?
Does it take your breath away and you feel yourself suffocating?
Does the pain weigh out the pride?
And you look for a place to hide?
Did someone break your heart inside,you're in ruins
One, 21 Guns
Lay down your arms
Give up the fight
One, 21 Guns
Throw up your arms into the sky
You and I ...
When you're at the end of the road
And you lost all sense of control
And your thoughts have taken their toll
When your mind breaks the spirit of your soul
Your faith walks on broken glass and the hangover doesn't pass
Nothing's ever built to last, you're in ruins
Chorus
Did you try to live on your own?
When you burned down the house and home?
Did you stand too close to the fire?
Like a liar looking for forgiveness from a stone
When it's time to live and let die
And you can't get another try
Something inside this heart has died, you're in ruins
Chorus
Declaration of
Independence Activity
Part I- The Breakup!
“When in the Course of human events it
becomes necessary for one people to dissolve
the political bands which have connected
them with another and to assume among the
powers of the earth, the separate and equal
station to which the Laws of Nature and of
Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect
to the opinions of mankind requires that they
should declare the causes which impel them
to the separation.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all
men are created equal, that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty and the
pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these
rights, Governments are instituted among Men,
deriving their just powers from the consent of
the governed, -- That whenever any Form of
Government becomes destructive of these ends,
it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish
it, and to institute a new government, laying its
foundation on such principles and organizing its
powers in such form, as to them shall seem most
likely to effect their Safety and Happiness…
“Prudence, indeed, will dictate the Governments
long established should not be changed for light
and transient causes; and accordingly all
experience hath shewn, that mankind are more
disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than
to right themselves by abolishing the forms to
which they are accustomed. But when a long train
of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the
same Object evinces a design to reduce them under
absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their
duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide
new Guards for their future security. –Such has
been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and
such is now the necessity which constrains them
to alter the former Systems of Government. The
history of the present King of Great Britain is a
history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all
having in direct object the establishment of an
absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this,
let Facts be submitted to a candid world.”