Name: _____________________________________ Date: _________________ Saunders/Mrs. McNerney US History/__________

Do Now: What is liberty? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Causes of American Revolution: Notes 1

French and Indian War Scramble for Territory

________________________ among European Nations for Control of N. America began _____________________. English ___________________ settlements along _______________________ seacoast during 1600s. __________________________ explored farther inland, _________________________ territory to the Rocky

Mountains. _______________________________ erupted due to _____________________________ claims.

War Begins In ______________________, English colonists of Virginia _____________________________ to take a French Fort

(Fort Duquesne) at the forks of the ____________________ River. Led by a young Major _________________________________________________________. Thus began the ___________________________________________________________________________. _______________________ and Indian __________________ fought against the British and

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Colonies Unify to Fight a Common Enemy June, 1754, ___________________________ from several English colonies met in

________________________________, N.Y. _________________________ to work out unified war effort in ________________________________ colonies. Ben Franklin, a Pennsylvania ______________________________, offered a plan for

____________________________ union of the colonies. Albany Plan of Union

o ______________________________________________ of delegates from each _______________________________.o Ultimately ____________________________, but served as model for the ____________________ govt. of

the U.S.

British Turn the Tide of the War War __________________________ goes poorly for ________________________________. 1758, French ___________________________ into New France. ____________________________ decide that French cause is __________________________________, shift sides. 1759, British _______________________________ New France and _______________________________ Quebec.

Treaty of Paris – 1763 __________________________________ the French and Indian War. France ___________________________ New France East of Mississippi River to _______________________. British __________________________ Cuba in exchange for _________________________________.

Despite Victory, Relations are Strained British _____________________________________ colonists did not provide enough ____________________________. War was _________________ and ____________________________. Britain had ____________________________ to protect them. Colonists ____________________________ by the weakness of British ______________________________ tactics.

_________________________________ would not allow colonial _________________________ to lead their troops. _____________________________ no longer held territory ____________________ of the Appalachians.

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Homework: Answer the following questions in COMPLETE sentences1. Why was there a scramble for territory among European nations in North America?

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2. What event caused the war to begin?

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3. What did the colonies do in order to fight the war?

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4. How did the British turn the tide of the war?

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5. How did Britain strain the relationship with the colonies?

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Name: _____________________________________ Date: _________________ Saunders/Mrs. McNerney US History/__________

Do Now: What did the Treaty of Paris- 1763 end? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Causes of American Revolution: Notes 2

French and Indian War Tensions with Native Americans

After war, _____________________________ interest in Great Lakes region and ___________________________ valley.

o ___________________________ began to _____________________ into the Ohio River Valley because the land now ___________________________ to England.

___________________________ natives ____________________________ in 1763 (Pontiac’s Rebellion). To help restore ______________________________, George III issued

_____________________________________________________.o _____________________ area west of ______________________________. o Placed under ______________________________ of British military.

Directions: Watch this video clip on the Proclamation of 1763.   While you are watching this clip, answer the questions below to help you organize your thoughts.Video Analysis Questions:

1. What was the Proclamation of 1763? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. What happened to the colonists who lived west of the Appalachians? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

a. What happened to the land grants that had already been made? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. How did the American colonists respond to the Proclamation of 1763? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. Was the Proclamation of 1763 enforced strongly? (Give one example from the video clip as evidence) __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. How did the Proclamation of 1763 unify colonists? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Classwork: Geographical Context: Based on the information in the video and your knowledge of social studies, on the map below, label the following features:

Appalachian Mountains Mississippi River Lands reserved for Indians (by the Proclamation of 1763) 13 Colonies

Homework: Document Analysis: George Washington to William Crawford September 21, 1767 (from Library of Congress)

Directions: Read the document below and answer the analysis questions that follow

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I then desired the favour of you to look me out a Tract of about 1500, 2000, or more Acres somewhere in your Neighbourhood meaning only by this that it may be as neighboring to your own Settlement...A Tract to please me must be rich (of which no Person can be a better judge than yourself) and if possible to be good and level…

The other matter of the Proclamation, just now hinted at and which I proposed in my last letter to join you in attempting to secure some of the most valuable Lands in the King's partition for Indians which I think may be accomplished after a while notwithstanding the Proclamation that restrains it at present and prohibits the Settling of them at all for I can never look upon that Proclamation in any other light than as a temporary expedient to quiet the Minds of the Indians and must fall apart in a few years especially when those Indians are consenting to our Occupying the Lands. Any person therefore who neglects the present opportunity of hunting out good Lands and in some measure marking and distinguishing them for their own (in order to keep others from settling them) will never regain it….

Analysis Questions:

1. Sourcing: Is this a primary source about the Proclamation of 1763, or a secondary source? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. Close Reading: According to lines 5-11, what views of the Proclamation did Washington express? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Corroborate: Does this document support the idea expressed in the video that colonists mostly ignored the Proclamation of 1763? Cite evidence from this primary source document to support your claims. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. Analysis: George Washington was a military and political leader in the 13 colonies. If he expresses views such as these regarding the Proclamation of 1763, what does that suggest to you about how the rest of the colonists might have viewed this British rule? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Name: _____________________________________ Date: _________________ Saunders/Mrs. McNerney US History/__________

Do Now: What was the Proclamation of 1763? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Causes of American Revolution: Notes 3

Sugar Act Britain ___________________________ huge debts during war. __________________________________ – marked start of a new British policy designed to

_______________________________. Parliament ____________________________ new rules to _____________________________ the act.

o _______________________________ cases tried in Britain.o By a ___________________________, not a juryo Judges received _________________________________ on illegal cargoes and fines.

Quartering Act 1765, colonies ___________________________ to provide housing and __________________________ for the

British troops who remained in the __________________________. Some _____________________________, but most went along with it.

Stamp Act Crisis ________________________________________________ – tax on newspapers, legal documents, most

________________________ materials. Official govt. stamp had to _______________________ on these materials to ___________________ tax was

paid. 1st tax that was clearly __________________________ to raise $ w/ no regulation of ______________________. In October, delegates from __________________________________ met as Stamp Act Congress. Main organizer was _____________________________________________. “No ____________________________________ without ____________________________________________” Sent ________________________________/letters to King/Parliament. Merchants _____________________________ British goods. British merchants _____________________________________. Groups (Sons/Daughters of _______________________________) No one to sell ____________________________ in America. 1766-Parliament ___________________________ Stamp Act.

Townshend Act In ____________________, The English Parliament passed the Townshend Revenue Acts,

____________________________ a new series of taxes on the colonists to _______________ for the costs of administering and __________________________ the American colonies.

Items taxed ________________________ imports such as paper, ______________, glass, lead and _______________________.

This was _______________________, colonists could not make these items __________________________________.

Classwork: Read the following documents and answer the analysis questions based on each document.

Sugar Act - Document 1 Document Analysis: Sugar Act (by British Parliament - 1764 )

Directions : Read the document below and answer the analysis questions that follow

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Whereas it is quickly necessary that new provisions and regulations should be established for improving the revenue of this kingdom, for settling the expenses of defending, protecting, and securing the American colonies; we, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the commons of Great Britain, in parliament being desirous to make a plan towards raising the said revenue in America....That from and after the twenty ninth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and sixty four, there shall be taxed, raised, imposed (charged), collected, and paid, unto his Majesty:

for and upon all white sugars or molasses imported into America for and upon indigo, and coffee of foreign produce or manufacture for and upon wines (except French wine;) for and upon all wrought silks, bengals, and stuffs, mixed with silk or herbs of the

manufacture of Persia, China, or East India calico painted, dyed, printed, or stained there; and for and upon all foreign linen cloth

Analysis Questions:   1. Sourcing: Is this a primary source or a secondary source?

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2. Close Reading: According to lines 1 - 3, what claims did Parliament make about why they were raising and collecting these taxes? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Close Reading: What was being taxed? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Quartering Act - Document 2

Document Analysis: Quartering Act (From: Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation - 2015)

Directions: Read the document below and answer the analysis questions that follow

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During the French and Indian War, British military commanders in North America often found it difficult to persuade the assemblies of some uncooperative colonies to pay for the costs of housing and supplying food for the soldiers sent over to fight the French. Once the war had ended, the king’s advisors decided that some British troops should remain in North America, to defend colonists from further attacks by Native Americans.

The Quartering Act act of 1765 required colonial governments to provide and pay for feeding and sheltering any troops stationed in their colony. If enough barracks were not made available, then soldiers could be housed in inns, stables, outbuildings, uninhabited houses, or private homes that sold wine or alcohol. American colonists resented and opposed the Quartering Act of 1765 because they were being taxed by the colonial governments to pay for provisions and barracks for the army…

Many American colonists saw the Quartering Act as one more way Parliament was attempting to tax them without their consent. Many suspected that the real purpose of keeping a small standing army in America – stationed in cities, not on the frontier – was not for defense, but to enforce new British policies and taxes such as the Stamp Act and Sugar Act.  They felt threatened by the constant presence of a standing army, fearing that the army might randomly attack or harass them.

Analysis Questions:  1. Sourcing: Is this a primary source or a secondary source?

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2. Close Reading: What did the Quartering Act of 1765 require? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Close Reading: Why did the King’s advisors decide that some British troops should remain in North America? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. Close Reading: What did some colonists suspect the real purpose of keeping a small standing army in America? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Homework: Read the document below and answer the analysis questions that follow.

Stamp Act - Document 1Document Analysis: A summary of the 1765 Stamp Act by Colonial Williamsburg Museum (2017)

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The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. The money collected by the Stamp Act was to be used to help pay the costs of defending and protecting the American frontier near the Appalachian Mountains (10,000 troops were to be stationed on the American frontier for this purpose).The actual cost of the Stamp Act was relatively small. What made the law so offensive to the colonists was not so much its immediate cost but the standard it seemed to set. In the past, taxes and duties on colonial trade had always been viewed as measures to regulate commerce, not to raise money. The Stamp Act, however, was viewed as a direct attempt by England to raise money in the colonies without the approval of the colonial legislatures. If this new tax were allowed to pass without resistance, the colonists reasoned, the door would be open for far more troublesome taxation in the future.Few colonists believed that they could do anything more than grumble and buy the stamps until the Virginia House of Burgesses adopted Patrick Henry's Stamp Act Resolves (series of resolutions passed by the Virginia House of Burgesses in response to the Stamp Act). These resolves declared that Americans possessed the same rights as the English, especially the right to be taxed only by their own representatives; that Virginians should pay no taxes except those voted by the Virginia House of Burgesses; and that anyone supporting the right of Parliament to tax Virginians should be considered an enemy of the colony.

Analysis Questions:  1. Sourcing: Is this a primary or a secondary source?

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2. Close Reading: What was taxed by the Stamp Act? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Contextualization: According to this source, what motivated Great Britain to collect these taxes? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. Close Reading: What did Patrick Henry’s Stamp Act Resolves claim? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Townshend Acts - Document 2

Document Analysis: Townshend Acts (Excerpted from “Great Britain: Parliament - The Townshend Act, November 20, 1767)

Directions: Read the document below and answer the analysis questions that follow.

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WHEREAS it is expedient that a revenue should be raised in your Majesty's dominions in America, for making a more certain and adequate provision for defraying the charge of the administration of justice, and the support of civil government...and towards further defraying the expenses of defending, protecting, and securing, the said dominions; we, your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the commons of Great Britain, in parliament assembled, have therefore resolved to give and grant unto your Majesty the several rates and duties hereinafter mentioned; . . .That from and after the twentieth day of November, one thousand seven hundred and sixty seven, there shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid, unto his Majesty, for and upon the respective goods hereinafter mentioned, which shall be imported from Great Britain into any colony or plantation in America:

For every hundred pounds imported of crown, plate, flint, and white glass, four shillings and eight pence

For every hundred pounds imported of green glass, one shilling and two pence For every hundred pounds imported of red lead, two shillings For every hundred pounds of white lead, two shillings For every hundred pounds of painters colours, two shillings For every pound of tea, three pence For every ream (500 sheets) of paper, twelve shillings

Analysis Questions:  1. Sourcing: Is this a primary source or a secondary source?

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2. Close Reading: According to lines 1 - 3, why are these taxes being imposed? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Close Reading: What was being taxed? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Name: _______________________________ Date: __________ Saunders/Mrs. McNerney US History/Gov. _____

Do Now: What was the Stamp Act? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Causes of American Revolution: Notes 4 Review of Acts Sugar Act (1764)

All __________________________________ and _____________________________ coming into the colonies would be taxed.

Why?o Pay for British __________________________ used during the French and Indian ___________________.

Stamp Act (1765) _____________________________items required to have a ____________________________ saying tax had been

paid. Items taxed:

o __________________________________________o Pamphletso Licenseso _____________________________________________________________o Playing Cards

Many Americans __________________________________________ stamped goods. Stamp Act _____________________________________

o Why? Colonial __________________________________ and _____________________________________. Franklin presented colonial _______________________________ before House of Commons.

Townshend Acts (1767)Taxed more items:

o Imported glasso _______________________________o Painto _________________________________o Tea

How do you think the colonists felt about these taxes? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

o DID YOU KNOW: The British used “_______________________________________________________” to search and seize any home or ship that was ___________________________________ of having illegal (untaxed) items.

Trouble in Boston• Ship, Liberty, ______________________________________ in 1768 for having ___________________________ goods .

o ___________________________ by John Hancock.o ___________________________ in Boston in ____________________________to the taxes & to the seizure of

ships.o British troops _____________________________________ city in response.

Sons of Liberty• Formed by __________________________________________________

o Original purpose: to ____________________________________ the Stamp Act.• Protested ________________________________ taxes.• Sometimes used _______________________________________ and physical violence to

____________________________their goals.

Boston Massacre• __________________________________ 5th, 1770• ______________________________ between soldiers guarding ______________________________ house and crowd.

o Result: ___________________________________________ Includes Crispus __________________________________. Used as ______________________________________ to increase hatred of

________________________________ soldiers.Tea Act (1773)

New act, __________________________________ price of tea but _____________________________ colonists to buy it from the East India Company

o Why do you think colonists preferred to buy more expensive tea on the black market?

o _________________________________________________________________________________________________________Boston Tea Party (1773)

3 Ships were ____________________________________in Boston Harboro ____________________________________ by governor to _______________________________ cargo of teao Threatened by ________________________________– told not to unload

December 16th – at night, ______________________________ dressed as Native Americans _____________________________ the ships & threw 90,000 lbs. of tea _____________________________________.

Classwork: Analyze the following document and answer the questions that follow.

“On March 5, 1770, ironically the same day the Townshend duties (except the tax on tea) were repealed, a few British soldiers in Boston fired upon a hostile Boston crowd, killing five persons. The event was publicized in newspapers throughout the colonies as a “massacre” against the defenseless colonists. With the help of engravings created by Paul Revere and pamphlets of anti-British propaganda written by Samuel Adams, the leader of the sons of Liberty, the American colonists became further inflamed in their resentment of British rule.”

“The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated in King Street, March 5th 1770”, Paul Revere (1770)

1. Which historical event does this image illustrate? Cite evidence from the text to support your claim. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. This image shows British soldiers on the right firing on a crowd of unarmed American colonists on the left.  How could this image have biased American colonists against the British government? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Homework: Answer the following questions in COMPLETE sentences.

1. What did the Sugar Act place taxes on? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. How did Colonists get the Stamp Act repealed? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. How did the British use the “writs of assistance”? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. What was the Sons of Liberty? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. What was the Boston Tea Party? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Name: _______________________________ Date: __________ Saunders/Mrs. McNerney US History/Gov. _____

Do Now: What do you think will be Great Britain’s response to the Boston Tea Party? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Causes of American Revolution: Notes 5

Bostonians Paying the Excise ManUsing Evidence

ObjectiveHow did the British loyalists view the Stamp Act protests?

Historical Context: Review the timeline below and  answer the subsequent analysis questions.   

Historical Context - Analysis Questions: 1. How many goods were taxed between 1764 and 1767?  What are three examples of goods that

were taxed?

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2. Why did the American colonists feel the taxes imposed on them by the British government were unfair? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. How do you think the British felt about the riots that broke out in America protesting these taxes? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Primary Source Document:  “The Bostonians paying the excise-man or Tarring & Feathering” by Phillip Dawe - London 1774 | This is a British depiction of the Bostonians’ treatment of a British customs officer.

Analysis of Image - Observations and Inferences: Directions: In the “observations” column, make a note of all the things of interest you notice or see.  Think about incorporating the following sentence starters while taking notes:

“I notice…” “I see….” “______ stands out to me” “_____ surprised me”

In the “inferences” column, make a note of what your observations might mean and make inferences based on your observations.  Think about incorporating the following sentence starters:

“Because I see _______ I think that ______” “I believe that _________” “I think this means_________”

Observations Inferences

Analysis of Image - Sourcing and Contextualization:

1. Sourcing: Who created this image? What is the author’s perspective? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

a. Who do you think his audience is? Cite evidence to support your claim. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. Contextualization: How might the increased number of riots and violence against British troops in America have influenced this image? Cite evidence from the image to support your claims. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Close Reading: What do you think the author is trying to communicate to his viewer about the colonists? Cite two pieces of evidence from the print to support your claims. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Name: _______________________________ Date: __________ Saunders/Mrs. McNerney US History/Gov. _____

Do Now: What do you think will be Great Britain’s response to the Boston Tea Party? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Causes of American Revolution: Notes 6 and 7The Intolerable Acts (1765-1774)

Quartering Act (1765)o Colonies must _______________________________________________________________ British troops.

Boston Port Bill (1774)o _________________________ Boston Harbor until tea is __________________ for.

Administration of Justice Act (1774)o British ___________________________ could not be ______________________________ w/ a crime.

Massachusetts Government Act (1774)o Massachusetts _________________________________ is ___________________________________.

Quebec Act (1774)o ________________________________ given more territory, taken __________________ from VA, CT & MA.

Committees of Correspondence _________________________________ to allow the colonies to ________________________________ with each other. Spread ________________________________________ actions

o Often ___________________________________than other ______________________________ of communication.

o ________________________________would be read aloud or ____________________________ in other colonies.

Independence is Common Sense ? Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

Britisho _______________________________ to America (1774)o ________________________________ of monarchy

Called for __________________________________Common Sense (1776)

________________________________ Common Sense, a pamphlet, in 1776 Sold more than _____________________________________________ copies

o 75x more than average ______________________________________ paper Talks about:

o ________________________________ of the monarchy “…monarchy and succession have laid (not this or that kingdom only) but the world

in blood and ashes. 'Tis a form of government which the word of God bears testimony against…”

o Why ____________________________________should be _____________________________________. “…but from the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom, and lay hold of the

present opportunity — to begin government at the right end… …independence is the only bond that can tie and keep us together…”

Classwork: You have been assigned to read excerpt 1 or excerpt 2 of Common Sense.  Read your excerpt and answer the analysis questions that follow.

Common Sense - Analysis Tone Main Idea / Argument What is “Common Sense”?

Excerpt 1

Excerpt 2

Primary Source Document Excerpt 1 - Common Sense - Thomas Paine (1776)  

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the passions and feelings of mankind: bring the idea of reconciliation to the nature of man, and then tell me whether you can hereafter love, honour, and faithfully serve the power that has carried fire and sword into your land? If you cannot do all these, then you are only deceiving yourselves….

Your future connection with Britain, whom you can neither love nor honour, will be forced and unnatural, and being formed only on the plan of present convenience, will in a little time fall into a worse condition more wretched than the first. But if you say, you can still pass the violations Great Britain has done the colonies over, then I ask, hath your house been burnt? Hath your property been destroyed before your face? Are your wife and children destitute of a bed to lie on, or bread to live on? Have you lost a parent or a child by their hands, and yourself the ruined and wretched survivor? If you have not, then are you not a judge of those who have. But if you have, and can still shake hands with the murderers, then are you unworthy the name of husband, father, friend or lover, and whatever may be your rank or title in life, you have the heart of a coward…

Analysis Questions:   1. Contextualization: Which historical event or events in Pre-Revolutionary America do you think the

author referring to when he writes in lines 3 and 4:  “...then tell me whether you can hereafter love, honour, and faithfully serve the power that has carried fire and sword into your land?…__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. Analysis: How would you describe the tone of this excerpt? Cite evidence from the text to support your claims. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Analysis: How does the author try to appeal to the emotions of American colonists in his attempt to build an argument and support for the American revolution? Cite evidence from the text to support your claims. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. Analysis: Based on this excerpt, why do you think the author, who was trying to convince other American colonists to support the revolutionary movement, called the larger written piece, Common Sense? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Primary Source Document Excerpt 2 - Common Sense - Thomas Paine (1776)  

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assigned, and that is, the distinction of men into KINGS and SUBJECTS. Male and female are the distinctions of nature, good and bad the distinctions of heaven; but how a race of men came into the world so exalted above the rest, and distinguished like some new species, is worth enquiring into, and whether they are the means of happiness or of misery to mankind . . .To the evil of monarchy we have added that of hereditary succession; and as the first is a degradation and lessening of ourselves, so the second, claimed as a matter of right, is an insult and an imposition on posterity. For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have a right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others for ever, and though himself might deserve some decent degree of honors of his contemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them. One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind a donkey for a lion.

Analysis Questions:   1. Contextualization: Who was the head of the British government, and therefore American

government, in 1776? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. Analysis: How would you describe the tone of this excerpt? Cite evidence from the text to support your claims. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Analysis: How does the author try to appeal to the emotions of American colonists in his attempt to build an argument and support for the American revolution? Cite evidence from the text to support your claims. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. Analysis: Based on this excerpt, why do you think the author, who was trying to convince other American colonists to support the revolutionary movement, called the larger written piece, Common Sense? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Name: ______________________________________ Date: ___________ Saunders/Mrs. McNerney US History/________Causes of American Revolution: Notes 8

Review for Causes of American Revolution QuizThe American Revolution and American Ideology

Long Term Causes of the Revolutiono ______________________________________________________

Britain _________________________ the colonies As long as the colonies made them ______________ The Colonies started to have their own _____________________________

Own ideas of _______________________________________ Own ideas of how to ___________________________________________

Colonists were loyal but often in their _____________________________o ________________________________________________________

Is the idea that colonies exist to make the Mother Country _________________ Colonies produce ____________________________________ Mother Country buys materials at a _______________________________ Mother Country produces _____________________________________________ Colonies buy the produced goods at a ___________________________________ As long as the colonies make money for the Mother Country, the Mother

Country will allow the colonies to do ______________________________ they wanto British _______________________________________ of laws

The British had ______________________________________________ Royal forces What Royal forces that were in the Colonies were __________________________

Short Tem Causes of the American Revolutiono French and Indian War

The British were in _______________ from the war Needed to pay off debt and thought the colonists should pay for

the _____________________________ the British provided  The British then place numerous ______________________________________________- on the

colonists __________________________________________________________

o Did not allow colonists to cross _______________________________________________________________

o To avoid conflict with _____________________________________o To show the ________________________________ were in charge

The first is the __________________________________________ of 1764o Place a tax on all ____________________________

The one that really upset colonists was the __________________________________________ of 1774

o Stated that British Soldiers were to be housed in colonial homeso These soldiers were the ones _______________________________________ the

laws. There were many other taxes and for such things as glass, _______________,

glass, paper, etco Thomas ________________________

Published a pamphlet called ________________________________________________ It highlighted the _____________________________________ Was published in __________________________________________ Stated that the American Colonies should not be ruled by

a __________________________________- Believed that the colonies had their ___________________________________________________

violatedo American Reaction to taxes and new laws

______________________________________________ Rich members of American Society that believed that the colonies were

a ___________________________________________culture  Arranged for

o Anti-British ___________________________o Anti-British ____________________

Such as the ________________________________________________________o Created Committees of ____________________________________________________

Kept all areas of the colonies informed Created a ________________________________________________