Agenda Sept. 2226
American Revolution
We Will: trace the events
and outcome of the French
and Indian War as it led to
the American Revolution
I Will: predict what the long
term effect of the F&I War is
Monday-Sept. 22
French & Indian
War-1756-1763
A global
war/struggle for
empire between
France and Great
Britain
Warm-up
View and discuss
Benjamin Franklin’s
Join or Die political
cartoon
*Hand out Unit 3
TEKS paper
**POW: Ben Franklin
Reminders!!
1.
What do the parts of the snake represent?
2.
What is the meaning of the caption, “Join,
or Die”?
3.
What is Benjamin Franklin’s purpose in
creating this image? (see textbook pg 133)
French & Indian
War
1754–1763
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Who fought and why?
•
France and England
•
They fought for control of the Ohio River Valley and other
territories in North America
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How did Benjamin Franklin
try to help?
•
He created the Albany Plan of the Union,
which was his attempt to unite the colonies
under one central government.
What message was he
trying to get
across to the Colonies
with this drawing?
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Effects of the French & Indian War
•
Treaty of Paris of 1763 - France
lost claims to land in North
America and made Britain more
powerful.
• The war put England in debt.
Because they believed they were
helping the colonies against
Indian and French attacks, they
made the Colonies responsible
for paying for the war debt
through taxes.
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SGPT: what were the results of
the Treaty of Paris?
CW: create a simile…13 English
Colonies: Great Britain::________ :
: __________
Using prior
knowledge,
Which European
country has
Claimed these lands
as their own?
Orange:
Green:
Yellow:
-Spain
-England
-France
Which country gained
control of valuable
fur-trapping
Land along the Great
Lakes?
Which country gained
control
of New Orleans?
We Will: trace the events
and outcome of the French
and Indian War as it led to
the American Revolution
I Will: predict what the long
term effect of the F&I War is
Activity
•Create F&I War 9 Squares
Include:5 details, 2 inferences,
2 valid conclusions
•-use pages 130-135 in
textbook
Tuesday, Sept. 23
Proclamation Line of
1763-forbade colonists
to settle west of the
Appalachian Mts.
Warm-up
“things associated
with” academic
vocabulary over
Revolution
We Will: identify tensions between
Britain and the colonists that led to the
the American Revolution.
I Will: list four major causes of the AR,
circle the most severe for the colonists
and justify my answer
Activity: Begin the Road to
Revolution
• Discuss
chapter 6 section 1
page 143
• Groups
set up (Quartering Act,
Sugar Act, Stamp Act)
• Events/Significance
Chart
SGPT: Why were the colonists
upset about the Proclamation
act?
Who were the Sons of Liberty
and what did they do?
Wednesday,
September 24
Revenue-income
Boycott-to
refuse to have
dealings with,
usually to
express
disapproval of
Warm-up
Bostonians
paying the
taxman
Questions on
promethean
Bostonians Paying the Taxman
• What objects or people
do you see in the political
cartoon?
•What are some words or
phrases used by the
cartoonist to identify
objects or people in the
cartoon?
•What do you think the
objects or people
symbolize?
•What do you think is
happening in the cartoon?
We Will: identify tensions between
Britain and the colonists that led to the
American Revolution.
I Will: Create a timeline of sequence of
events (Stamp Act, Townshend Acts, BTP,
BTP, Intolerable Acts)
3-2-1 Summary
3 big ideas you learned, 2
inferences, 1 question
Activity:
Based on yesterday’s causes of the Revolution
3 What did it say? 2 What did it mean?1 What does it mean?
SGPT: Why did England
seek to impose greater
taxes on the colonists?
Thursday, September 25
Warm-up
Civil Disobedience-to
disobey an unjust law
without using violence
Boston Massacre
Questions on
promethean
Massacre-the killing of
many people
(DBQ style: write down as
many facts as possible that
you see and come up with a
name for the picture)
Propaganda-to promote an
idea or cause
Tensions between Britain and her
colonies had been growing steadily
for several years when five
American colonist were shot and
killed during a riot on March 5,
1770. Although it does not show
events accurately, this famous
engraving by Paul Revere helped to
increase Americans’ outrage over
the Boston Massacre
We Will: explain the significance
of the Boston Massacre as a cause
of the American Revolution
I Will: classify each cause or event
to the American Revolution as a
form of violence or civil
disobedience (T-chart)
Activity: Road to Revolution
• Discuss chapter 6 section 2 Group
rotations… page 147
• Townshend Acts, Boston Massacre, Tea
Act, Boston tea party
• Finish Events/Significance Chart
SGPT: list as many causes of the
Revolution as you can, explain how
how the Boston tea Party was a
form of Civil Disobedience
CW: How was the engraving of
the Boston Massacre a form of
propaganda?
I Will: classify each cause or event to the American Revolution
as a form of violence or civil disobedience:
Violence
Civil Disobedience
Friday, September 26
Warm-up
Revolution-a change in
political organization
To overthrow the
government
Vocabulary extensionRevolution
We Will: identify causes of the American
Revolution
I Will: create a visual for each cause of the
American Revolution
(if time allows, choose a cause and go to that corner and have a 5 minute
debate, giving each cause one solid minute to defend themselves)
Activity!
•Liberty workbook pg 13-Causes of
the Revolution
Causes of the Revolution-page 13
•
Mercantilism
• Economic
system that bases a nations wealth on
the amount of gold/silver in its treasury
• Raw
materials were exported from colonies in
order for the mother country to make a profit
• Each
nation tried to export more goods than it
imported. This was called a “favorable balance of
trade.”
Proclamation Line of 1763
• After
the French and Indian War, colonists
were taxed to pay the war cost.
• The
British won the war, receiving all lands
east of the Mississippi River, except New
Orleans.
• Colonists
were not allowed to settle the
land they helped win.
• Colonist
could not settle west of the
Appalachian Mountains!
Acts of Parliament
•
Quartering Act: required the colonist to provide
shelter and supplies to British troops
•
Stamp Act: required stamps to be purchased and
placed on newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets,
legal documents, and playing cards
•
Townshend Act: taxes on glass, lead, paint,
paper, and tea
•
Intolerable act: punishment for the Boston Tea
Party. Closed the port of Boston until all tea had
been paid for.
Boston Massacre
• Encounter
Boston
between British troops and citizens of
• Patriots
antagonized British troops, who were
quartered in Boston to discourage
demonstrations against the Townshend Acts.
• British
people
troops fired on the Patriots, killing 5
Boston Tea Party
•A
protest against the
Tea Act of 1773.
• Colonist
dressed as
Indians and dumped
342 whole crates of
British tea into
Boston harbor
How was the BTP an
example of civil
disobedience?
SGPT
Lack of Representation in
Parliament
• Colonist
were not allowed to elect
representatives in Parliament but
those members made decisions
that effected the colonists
Which cause of the war would
have made you the angriest?
Why?
SGPT
I Will: create a visual for
each cause of the
American Revolution