Bellwork:
September 30
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Mail manager will pass out the study guides
● Write 5 causes of the American Revolution,
try to remember what you learned in
Unit 5. May write them from the video...
● This is a review from Unit 5 (may look at
notes or textbook)
List
5
Causes.
Classwork:
Complete 1-3 on
Lesson 6 study guide
INDEPENDENTLY
Page 169
Fighting
Begins
in the
NorthSlide
12
Colonies
Declare
Indepen
dence
Winning
the
War in
the
South
Bell
Maps
Practice
The
me
park
Timeli
ne
Struggles
In the
Middle
States
Fighting
on
Many
Fronts
bell
work
French and Indian War
Sugar Act and Stamp Act
Patrick Henry’s Speech
Sons and Daughters of Liberty
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
Common Sense
The Intolerable Acts
The Enlightenment
The Great Awakening
Bellwork:
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Open textbook to page 582.
Read passage silently.
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Write and answer the question below.
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Be prepared to discuss.
According to Thomas Paine, how has Great
Britain responded to the colonies’ attempts at
peace?
Group Agenda:
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Research should be finished today.
All theme park features and descriptions should be
written on group handout.
Map designers work to complete maps in hall.
Maps are due at end of period tomorrow.
Leaders: Keep everyone on task!!!!
Everyone is to work as a team.
Remember coop rules.
All groups will turn in handouts for teacher to
make copies for presentations.
Bellwork: September 30
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Pick up Study Guide from front table for
lesson 6.
● Write name and date.
● Complete first fill in blank.
Bellwork:
October 2
*Get out study guide, and map
handout
*On bellwork sheet write
“U.S. States”
*KEEP BINDER OPEN ON
DESK!!
*Everyone else sit quietly look over
states from yesterday
What actions did the
Second Continental Congress
take after the first battles?
➢ Sent
the Olive Branch Petition to the King
George III
➢ Appointed Washington as head of army
(Continental Army)
➢ Raised money (uniforms, etc….)
1. Green Mountain Boys
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Ethan Allen’s Green Mountain Boys led
an attack on Fort Ticonderoga
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British outpost on New York’s Lake
Champlain
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Took enemy by surprise;
crawled in at night
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Gave colonists valuable ammunition
(later used in defense of Boston)
2. Advantages of the 2. Advantages of the
Continental Army: British Army:
1. Washington: good leader
1. More troops/well trained
2. Knew the geography/land
2. Best navy in Europe
3. Believed in their cause
3. Loyalists support
3. Loyalists; Loyalist
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People who supported maintaining
ties with Great Britain
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Patriots – favored separation from Great
Britain.
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Eager men and women were on both sides.
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Some took neither side and waited to see what
would happen.
Strongest Loyalists? Carolinas and Georgia
4. Battle of Bunker Hill
➢ British
General Thomas Gage orders ?
➢ American
Colonel William Prescott ?
➢ Ammunition
was low “Don’t fire until
you see the whites of their eyes.”
➢ Considered
a moral victory for the
Americans
➢ The
untrained militia stood up to the
British army.
Bellwork:
October 5
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*Get out study guide, and map
handout
*On bellwork sheet write
“U.S. States”
*KEEP BINDER OPEN ON
DESK!!
*Everyone else sit quietly look over
states from yesterday
John Trumbull
5.Blockade
6. Mercenaries
Troops for hire
● Traveled 3,000 miles
across Atlantic
● Many from Germany
“Of more worth is one honest man to
society and in the sight of God, than all
the crowned ruffians that ever lived.”
7. Thomas Paine
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Pamphlet== Common Sense ----- convinced
people that it was time to break free from Britain
and start a new nation
Richard Henry
Lee introduced a
RESOLUTION…..
Who wrote the first
draft of the
Declaration of
Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
Based on the consent of the
governed (John Locke)
“All men are created equal....(and) they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable rights.........among these are
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these,
governments are instituted among men, deriving their just
power from the consents of the governed;
8. These words were written by Thomas
Jefferson based on John Locke’s
contract theory of government.
Declaration of Independence (1776)