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Announcements. Quiz on Friday Part 5 of Boston Massacre – Due Friday. Journal #6. Please read the new district policies proposed and write a half page in your journal about what you think of it. Road to Revolution (Part II).

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Announcements

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  1. Announcements Quiz on Friday Part 5 of Boston Massacre – Due Friday

  2. Journal #6 Please read the new district policies proposed and write a half page in your journal about what you think of it.

  3. Road to Revolution (Part II) Today’s Goal – to be able to explain the causes of the American revolution by looking at key events Agenda: Review homework Short movie clip Look at final events leading to the revolution

  4. Homework Review! • Please trade with the person next to you • Take a few minutes to read over what they wrote. • Underline 5 key ideas, good insights, major topics that they answer. • Rate that persons homework assignment • Were they thorough? • Did they answer in complete sentences? • Were the answers correct?

  5. Boston Massacre – In Review

  6. Mercantilist Rule #1 A Colony exists for the benefit of the Mother Country.

  7. Examples of This Policy The Sugar Act The Navigation Act The Townshend Acts The Tea Acts

  8. The Tea Act and The Boston Tea Party • Tea Act – Designed to save British East Indian Co. • Objections by Colonists = • Tea Party – Dec. 16th. 1773 • 90,000 Pounds of Tea Destroyed

  9. The Coercive/Intolerable Acts Response after colonist’s refusal to pay Close Down Boston Harbor, Justice Act, Quartering Act “The cause of Boston now is and ever will be the cause of America”. George Washington King George III – “The time has come for compulsion”

  10. The First Continental Congress September 1774 Make military preparations Cut off trade with England

  11. British View of Americans A society of patriotic ladies, at Edenton in North Carolina. This British cartoon satirized the American colonists from Edenton, North Carolina, who pledged to boycott English tea in response to the Continental Congress resolution Edenton Proclamation, 1774. Image published: 1775.

  12. American Perspective

  13. JOURNAL 6 – PART B • In a good solid paragraph or two explain what caused the Revolutionary War. • Make sure to include key events • Think about things that caused the relationship to deteriorate, caused resentment, or were used as justification for war.

  14. Friday Today’s Agenda – 1) Quiz 2) “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” 2) Lexington and Concord Note: I will not be here on Tuesday Next Week

  15. Patrick Henry – “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” http://www.history.org/almanack/life/politics/giveme.cfm

  16. Lexington and Concord Assignment • Read Pages 108-109 • In your journal create a four frame comic that recounts what you read about the Battle in the reading. • Frame one – sets up the battle (talks about the circumstances surrounding event • Frames two and three – the battle itself • Frame four – Results of battle, conclusion • Please define the following: Thomas Gage, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine

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