Bellwork:September 30

●Mail manager will pass out the study guides●Write 5 causes of the American Revolution,

try to remember what you learned in

Unit 5. May write them from the video... ●This is a review from Unit 5 (may look at

notes or textbook)

List5

Causes.

Classwork:

Complete 1-3 on Lesson 6 study guide INDEPENDENTLY

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Winning

the War in

the South

Struggles

In theMiddle States

Fighting Begins in the

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French and Indian War Sugar Act and Stamp ActPatrick Henry’s Speech Sons and Daughters of LibertyBoston Massacre Boston Tea PartyCommon SenseThe Intolerable Acts The EnlightenmentThe Great Awakening

Bellwork:

●Open textbook to page 582.●Read passage silently.● Write and answer the question below.

●Be prepared to discuss.

According to Thomas Paine, how has Great Britain responded to the colonies’ attempts at peace?

Group Agenda:● Research should be finished today.● All theme park features and descriptions should be

written on group handout.● Map designers work to complete maps in hall.

Maps are due at end of period tomorrow.● Leaders: Keep everyone on task!!!!● Everyone is to work as a team. ● Remember coop rules.● All groups will turn in handouts for teacher to

make copies for presentations.

Bellwork: September 30

●Pick up Study Guide from front table for lesson 6.

●Write name and date.●Complete first fill in blank.

Bellwork:October 2

● *Get out study guide, and map handout

● *On bellwork sheet write “U.S. States”

● *KEEP BINDER OPEN ON DESK!!

*Everyone else sit quietly look over states from yesterday

WHAT?!?!

What actions did theSecond Continental Congress

take after the first battles?➢ Sent the Olive Branch Petition to the King

George III➢ Appointed Washington as head of army

(Continental Army)➢ Raised money (uniforms, etc….)

1. Green Mountain Boys

● Ethan Allen’s Green Mountain Boys led an attack on Fort Ticonderoga

● British outpost on New York’s Lake Champlain

● Took enemy by surprise;

crawled in at night

● Gave colonists valuable ammunition (later used in defense of Boston)

2. Advantages of the Continental Army:

2. Advantages of the British Army:

1. Washington: good leader

2. Knew the geography/land

3. Believed in their cause

1. More troops/well trained

2. Best navy in Europe

3. Loyalists support

3. Loyalists; Loyalist

● People who supported maintaining

ties with Great Britain

● Patriots – favored separation from Great Britain.

● Eager men and women were on both sides.

● Some took neither side and waited to see what would happen.

Strongest Loyalists? Carolinas and Georgia

4. Battle of Bunker Hill

➢ British General Thomas Gage orders ?

➢ American Colonel William Prescott ?

➢ Ammunition was low “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes.”

➢ Considered a moral victory for the Americans

➢ The untrained militia stood up to the British army.

Bellwork:October 5

● *Get out study guide, and map handout

● *On bellwork sheet write “U.S. States”

● *KEEP BINDER OPEN ON DESK!!

*Everyone else sit quietly look over states from yesterday

WHAT?!?!

John Trumbull

5.Blockade

6. Mercenaries

Troops for hire ●Traveled 3,000 miles

across Atlantic●Many from Germany

● Pamphlet== Common Sense ----- convinced people that it was time to break free from Britain and start a new nation

7. Thomas Paine

“Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.”

Who wrote the first draft of the

Declaration of Independence?

Richard Henry Lee introduced a RESOLUTION…..

Thomas Jefferson

Based on the consent of the governed (John Locke)

“All men are created equal....(and) they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.........among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just power from the consents of the governed;

8. These words were written by Thomas Jefferson based on John Locke’scontract theory of government.

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