Unit 2 Organizer: The American Revolution
The Big Picture:
The British victory in the French and Indian War (1754-1763) brought additional lands in the West, but significant war debts as well. To pay
this debt, the British parliament moved away from salutary neglect in favor of more strict colonial control. Colonial protest to new taxes,
restrictions on colonial self-government, and influence from the European Enlightenment led to a colonial Declaration of Independence in
1776. During the American Revolution, the overmatched colonists found a leader in George Washington and badly-needed French assistance
after the Battle of Saratoga. When the war ended, the Treaty of Paris in 1783 brought independence and the formation of the United States.
Last Unit:
Colonial History
Current Unit:
The American Revolution
Next Unit:
The New Nation
Suggested Activities:
Schedule of Content
Reading HW
8/21 -The French and Indian War
8/21 – Read/notes pg 37-39
8/24 –Path to Revolution Activity
8/24 – Handout
8/25 The path towards revolution
Notes
8/25 – Read/notes Ch 2.1
8/26 Town Hall meeting and debate
8/27– Declaring Independence
8/26 – Common Sense
8/28 - The American Revolution
8/27 – Read/notes Ch 2.2,
8/31 - The Treaty of Paris, 1783
DOI handout
8/28 – Handout
9/01 - Unit 2 Quiz
8/31 –Handout
Key Terms and Phrases:
1. French and Indian War
14. “No taxation without
2. Treaty of Paris, 1763
representation”
3. Proclamation of 1763
15. Salutary neglect
4. Stamp Act
16. Parliamentary Sovereignty
5. Quartering Act
17. Virtual Representation
6. Sugar Act
18. Thomas Jefferson’s
7. Boston Massacre
Declaration of Independence
8. Boston Tea Party
19. George Washington
9. Coercive Acts/Intolerable Acts
20. Marquis de Lafayette
10. Sons and Daughters of Liberty
21. Lord Cornwallis
11. Committees of Correspondence 22. Lexington and Concord
12. Enlightenment philosophes
23. Valley Forge
9/01 -TERMS DUE
John Locke and Montesquieu
24. Saratoga
13. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense 25. Yorktown
26. Treaty of Paris, 1783
Essentials Questions:
ACT Standards
1. In what ways did the French and Indian War (1754-1763) transform the relationship between Great British and her
1. ACT B.1.f-g
American colonies? (B.1.g)
2. Why and how did the American colonists oppose the Sugar, Stamp, and Intolerable Acts? (B.1.g)
3. What impact did the ideas of the Enlightenment play in the American Revolution? (B.1.f)
4. What role did George Washington and Marquis de Lafayette play in the Revolutionary War? (B.1.g)
5. What were the major provisions of the Treaty of Paris that ended the war in 1783? (B.1.g)
Course Website:
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