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HOT ROC: How did we get here?. How did the actions of the groups listed on pages 52 & 53 contribute to the crisis of 1763 – 1774?. Reactionary (British Gov’t). Conservative (Loyalists). Liberal (Moderates). Radical (Patriots). Homework. Do vocab for homework in glossary: Bill of Rights
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HOT ROC: How did we get here? • How did the actions of the groups listed on pages 52 & 53 contribute to the crisis of 1763 – 1774? Reactionary (British Gov’t) Conservative (Loyalists) Liberal (Moderates) Radical (Patriots)
Homework • Do vocab for homework in glossary: • Bill of Rights • Amendment • Congress • Constitution • Executive Branch • Federal Government • Judicial Branch • Legislative Branch • Supreme Court • Study vocab for quiz on Friday!
Cause & Effect Activity • T-chart of cause and effect from 5.4, pg. 54. • Explain what the “cause was” before explaining the effect
Declaration of Independence: • With a partner, look over the Declaration of Independence (Pgs 804-807) • Locate the grievances the colonists had against King George III
he has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it’s most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. this piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce: and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them; thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.
The American Revolution: Key Info. • British Advantage 1776 • Professional army • Mercenaries • The Americans get off to a Shaky Start • Military Strategies evolve • Defensive war • Victory at Saratoga 1777 (Hi France ) • Valley Forge 1777-78 • The War Shifts to the South • Guerilla Warfare • Battle of Yorktown 1781- surrender!! • Treaty of Paris 1783