Warm Up:
Take 5 minutes to go through your
notebook:
2.
1. Make sure you have all the pages.
Finish writing, drawing, coloring anything that is incomplete!
Today’s Question:
What events caused unrest in
the colonies?
Agenda:
1. In groups: Analyze events that led to the Revolutionary
War
2. Class discussion: which events contributed most to
unrest in the colonies?
With your table group:
Rank these situations in order from causing the least amount of
unrest/conflict to the most!
Argument, battle, discussion, meeting, fight,
protest, riot
Events Causing Unrest:
Stamp Act
Proclamation
of 1763
Continental
Congress
Boston Tea
Party
Quartering
Act
Boston
Massacre
Intolerable
Acts
Lexington and
Concord
Events Causing Unrest:
With your group:
1. You will have 5-8 minutes at each station. Read the card OUT
LOUD and look at the picture.
2. Record “what happened”
3. As a group, decide the degree of unrest this event caused. Fill in
your unrest-o-meter. You must ALL AGREE!
4. Fill out the rest of your chart.
Understanding Colonial Unrest:
What happened
Unrest Rating
Rational for Unrest Rating
1. Fill out the “Unrest O
Meter” based on how
much unrest the event
caused in the colonies.
2. If you believe the
event caused little
unrest, color 1 square, a
lot of unrest, 6-8
squares.
3. You must color in 36
squares TOTAL—no
more and no less!
Vocab Words:
Tax: a sum of money demanded by a government for its
support or for specific facilities or services. Taxes are placed
upon incomes, property, sales, etc
Boycott: refusal to buy or use something
Monopoly: the complete control of an entire supply of goods
in a certain area
Coerce: to force someone to do something
Group work:
1. Work with your group. Talking to another group can distract
them from their tasks and hinder their learning as well as your
own. Direct your attention toward the other members of your
group at all times.
2. Stay on task. As interesting as the football game or tv show on
last night is, you are in class and should remained focused on
your group assignments.
Proclamation of 1963
The Quartering Act
The Stamp Act
The Townshend Acts
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
First Continental Congress
Lexington & Concord