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Intro to social studies

Intro to social studies . Mon. September 24, 2012. Key events for subbies this week?. During Uni Periods? After school at Uni ? In school? Outside of school?. What about ISS this week?. Finish and hand in lists of milestones Finish and discuss questions about rights and

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Intro to social studies

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  1. Intro to social studies Mon. September 24, 2012

  2. Key events for subbies this week? • During Uni Periods? • After school at Uni? • In school? • Outside of school?

  3. What about ISS this week? • Finish and hand in lists of milestones • Finish and discuss questions about rights and representation in the English colonies (yellow) • Examine the Declaration of Independence • Get ready for first test…

  4. What about ISS this week? • Finish and hand in lists of milestones • Finish and discuss questions about rights and representation in the English colonies (yellow) • Examine the Declaration of Independence • Get ready for first test – from the MC to the D of I !

  5. Today • Last chance to check over your milestones • If done before others, work on your questions (yellow sheet) – due tomorrow! • Mini lecture on events of late 1700s

  6. What happened in the late 1700s?

  7. What happened in the late 1700s? Important changes in relationship between: • the colonists and • the governing powers in England (Parliament and the King) WHY?

  8. Why? • A big change in the policy and attitude of the governing powers toward the colonies • What had the predominant policy been up until 1763?

  9. Salutary neglect: the policy that as long as the British government benefitted from the colonies, the colonists were left essentially free to govern themselves In effect up until 1763 – at end of the French and Indian War

  10. Key dates in late 1700s • [1754 – 1763] French and Indian War Britain gains much land but also great debts

  11. Key dates in late 1700s • [1754 – 1763] French and Indian War Britain gains much land but also great debts • 1760s-1770s: tensions grow • 1763 Proclamation of 1763: • No settlers west of Appalachian Mountains • Colonists must “quarter” British soldiers

  12. Key dates in late 1700s • [1754 – 1763] French and Indian War Britain gains much land but also great debts • 1760s-1770s: tensions grow • 1763 Proclamation of 1763: • No settlers west of Appalachian Mountains • Colonists must “quarter” British soldiers 1764, 1765, 1766, 1767 further acts of Parliament raise taxes on basic necessities for colonists Colonists respond with boycotts, protests Parliament eventually repeals these acts but tensions grow

  13. Tensions grow… • 1770s colonists start to meet to discuss what to do  split between loyalists and patriots • 1774 Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts: Britain took over the colony of Massachusetts, protected the loyalists • 1774, 1775 colonists (patriots/separatists) held many assemblies • June 1776 Virginia declared its independence; 2nd Continental Congress asks a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence (TJ, Ben Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston) • 2 July 1776 Committee presents the draft D of I to the Continental Congress, they tweak it, vote to accept it • 4 July 1776 the Declaration of Independence is made public

  14. Key dates • 1215 • 1300s – 1600s • 1607 – 1732 • 1619 • 1689 • 1690 • c. 1720s

  15. Key dates • 1754 – 1763 • 1763 • 1764-1767 • 1770s • 1774 • June 1776 • 2 July 1776 • 4 July 1776

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