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Ask students to role-play colonists from different walks of life to illustrate why some opposed British rule while others supported it. Assign roles such as the following:. Southern planter who sells rice to England and is in debt to English manufacturers
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Ask students to role-play colonists from different walks of life to illustrate why some opposed British rule while others supported it. Assign roles such as the following: • Southern planter who sells rice to England and is in debt to English manufacturers • Boston trader shipping rum and hauling African slaves • Frontier settlers fearful of the French and their Indian allies • Indentured servant earning money for land • Young aristocratic lady being educated in Europe • Free person of African descent • Middle class printer from Boston • Clergyman who has a church in the colonies • Large landowner who studied law in England and who married a lady from England.