Aim: Consider whether the collapse of British authority in the thirteen rebellious colonies might have been avoided through compromise measures and more astute leadership. Was colonial independence inevitable, and was war the only way to achieve it?
Bell Ringer: Pop Quiz 5.3 (10 min)
1. The Concord town meeting raised a defensive force, a militia that was to stand at a minutes warning in case of alarm.
2. The colonies sent representatives to this organization again. This assembly was created to delegate their grievances when 3,000 British troops attacked American fortifications on Breed's Hill and Bunker Hill overlooking Boston.
3. As Americans became increasingly divided in their opinions of King George III, this gentleman assaulted the traditional monarchical order in stirring language. "Monarchy and hereditary succession have laid the world in blood and ashes". What was the name of the patriot who wrote this?
4. What famous pamphlet did the patriot named in #3 write?
5. The principle that ultimate power lies in the hands of the electorate.
6. Who is credited for writing the Declaration of Independence?
Objectives:
Agenda:
1. Lord Dunmore's War (POL)
2. Armed Resistance in Massachusetts (POL)
*Minutemen
3. The Second Continental Congress Organizes for War (POL, NAT)
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdFxPKXb8u8 (4 min)
J33 / A: The outbreak of violence in Massachusetts made reconciliation with the crown more difficult and, eventually, impossible. Samuel Adams, John Adams, Patrick Henry, and other Patriots clamored for a continental army, the right to take up arms, and an organized rebellion against the British.
*Congress Versus King George
*Fighting in the South (patriots vs. loyalists?)
*Occupying Kentucky /Daniel Boone
4. Thomas Paine's Common Sense (NAT)
5. Independence Declared (NAT, POL, WOR)
*Declaration of Independence
*popular sovereignty
Terms to know: Sugar Act of 1764, vice admiralty courts, virtual representation, Stamp Act Congress, Sons of Liberty, English Common Law, "natural rights", Declaratory Act of 1766, Townshend Acts, nonimportation movement, Quartering Acts of 1765, Minutemen, Second Continental Congress, Declaration of Independence, popular sovereignty.
Home Learning:
1. Complete Chapter 5 IDs, due next class
2. Chapter 5 Vocabulary Quiz: next class!
Pop Quiz 5.2 answers
1. Minutemen
2. Second Continental Congress
3. Thomas Paine
4. Common Sense
5. popular sovereignty
6. Thomas Jefferson
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