Lesson on Wednesday, September 26, 2018

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 5.2 (10 min)

1. Deadly riot that occurred on March 5, 1770 in Boston between British colonists and the British soldiers; quickly escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter. Paul Revere encouraged anti-British attitudes.

2. This standing committee allowed Patriots to communicate with leaders in other colonies when new threats to liberty occurred.

3. Twelve mainland colonies sent representative to this organization. This assembly was created in response to the Coercive Acts, by Patriot leaders who convened a new continent-wide body.

4. A political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston Harbor, where American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing  "taxation without representation", dumped 342 chests of British tea into the harbor.

5. Parliament passed four ____________ to force Massachusetts to pay for the tea and to submit to imperial authority. The bill closed Boston Harbor to shipping; the colony's charter was annulled, and prohibited most town meetings.

Objectives:

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Agenda:

1. Causation T-Chart labeled "British Action / Colonial Reaction" 

https://www.thoughtco.com/timeline-events-leading-to-american-revolution-104296

Let's review this assignment, checking rough drafts. (10 min)

Also: use Table 5.3 as a guide. 

THE ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE 1771-1776

2. A Compromise Repudiated (GEO)

*committees of correspondence

*East India Company and the Tea Act (WXT)

*J32 / A: The more radicalized colonists accused the British ministry of bribing Americans with the cheaper East India Company's tea in an effort to induce them to abandon their principled opposition to the tea tax. Merchants joined the protest because the East India Company excluded American wholesalers, which secured a monopoly on tea for the company to the colonies. 

*Tea Party and the Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts) (POL)

*The Intolerable Acts are an example that illustrate Britain's efforts to consolidate imperial control over North America. Consider how the Intolerable Acts unified the colonists and then consider just how unified the colonists were in 1774. 

3. The Continental Congress Responds (WOR)

*John Adams scene: https://youtu.be/GckRP2xRKNw

4. The Rising of the Countryside (NAT)

*The Continental Association

*Southern Planters Fear Dependency 

5. Loyalists and Neutrals (NAT)

*Examine the ideological perspective of Loyalists. What motivations kept them loyal to the British? 

6. Thinking Like a Historian 5 (review answers) (rest of class)

7. Grade journals 21-30 at this time. 

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. Read pages 174-179

2. Journal 33 - How did the violence around Boston in the spring of 1775 affect proceedings in the Second Continental Congress? 

3. Chapter 5 Vocabulary Quiz on Friday, September 28th.

4. Chapter 5 IDs due on Friday, September 28th.

Section Assignments: 

Lord Dunmore's War - Brandon
Armed Resistance in Massachusetts - Sasha
The Second Continental Congress, Congress Versus King George - Amor
The Second Continental Congress, Fighting in the South  - Jeniffer
Thomas Paine's Common Sense - Damariz
Independence Declared - Suggi

Pop Quiz 5.2 answers

1. Boston Massacre

2. committees of correspondence

3. Continental Congress

4. Boston Tea Party

5. Coercive Acts