To Begin

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To Begin

• Quickly get back in your groups. You have a few
  minutes to collect your thoughts before we
  continue with Road to Revolution mini-lessons

• Proclamation Line of 1763
• Sugar Act (1764)
• Stamp Act (1765)
• Quartering Act (1765)
• Declaratory Act (1766)
• Townshend and Tea Acts (1767/1773)
• Quebec Act (1774)
• Intolerable Acts (1774)
• Lexington and Concord (1775)

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Quiz Time ?

• Please get out a piece of paper for your quiz.
• Ill be returning FRQs during this process. See
  me after school with questions. Take a look at
  the samples on my website (8/31 PwPt). Practice
  questions on ISchool.
• Scoring this round 9 (55/50), 8-7 (50/50), 6-4
  (44/50), 3-1 (37/50)
• See syllabus for scale used on all future essays

3
So What Really Caused the American Revolution?

• Of the following events, which do you think was
  most responsible for the outbreak of the American
  Revolution?
• Tea Act
• Proclamation Line of 1763
• Stamp Act
• Coercive/Intolerable Acts
• Declaratory Act
• Sugar Act
• Quartering Act

4
Discuss with your neighbor

• What does it mean to be an adult? When does one
  become an adult?

5
Discuss with your neighbor

• Is it appropriate to equate the relationship
  between England the American colonies to that of
  a parent and a child? Why or why not?
• When considering colonists reactions to British
  Acts and Paines argument in Common Sense, what
  kind of government do you think Americans want?

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To Begin

• On the back of the Reading Journal for Chapter 8
  (what you read for last class), complete the
  following
• When considering colonists reactions to British
  Acts and Paines argument in Common Sense, what
  kind of government do you think Americans want?
• What study strategies do you use?

7
The Revolutionary War

• How does the Revolutionary War contribute to the
  development of the American identity?
• 9/7

8
As Revolution Begins

• Colonial Strengths
• Good leadership
• Foreign aid
• Self-sustaining b/c agriculture
• Self-reliant
• Thought justice was on their side
• Colonial Weaknesses
• Poor organization
• Jealousy
• Poor economy

• British Strengths
• More people
• More wealth
• Greater naval power
• Professional army
• Could pay for foreign soldiers
• British Weaknesses
• Limited supplies
• Operating from far away

9
As Revolution Begins

• Loyalists
• Educated
• Wealthy
• Anglican
• Feared chaos
• Patriots
• Young
• New England
• Congregationalist
• Feared oppression

10
Enter the French

• Wanted revenge against Britain
• Had secretly supplied Americans from beginning
• Battle of Saratoga
• public support for Americans
• Americans promised to join French if ever went to
  war with Britain
• helped expand the Revolution
• Continued to provide supplies, troops, and naval
  support
• Incredibly important to outcome of the Battle of
  Yorktown

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Treaty of Paris (1783)

• Negotiated by Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and
  John Jay
• England formally recognized the US
• American territory stretched from Mississippi
  River to Great Lakes to Spanish Florida
• Cease persecution of Loyalists
• Will not impede British collection of debts
• Illustrated the complicated relationships with
  Britain and France

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To End Mourning or Celebrating

• Ones opinion of the outcome of the Revolutionary
  War depended on ones perspective. With this in
  mind, please create one of the following
• An obituary that mourns the passing of the
  British colonies in North America
• A birth announcement that celebrates the
  arrival of an independent American nation
• be creative, really consider personality
  traits