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1 Name: Period: TIMETRAVEL NOTES The following questions will help guide your viewing as we watch the time-travel daily, and you are expected to take notes in class daily. We will go over the answers that we have seen in the time-travel as a class at the end of each period. If you miss a day of the time-travel you are responsible for making up the missed notes because they will be due with your summative assessment. Do not talk or ask questions during the time-travel save them until we pause for the day so you do not disrupt the time-travel (write yourself notes in the margins if needed to remember your questions). The last page of this packet is the summative assignment that is due the last day of the time-travel. 1. What is John Adams trying to get passed/voted on/just talked about from the very beginning of the video? wants to vote about independency 2. Will it be easy for him to get it passed? (Based on the reactions of the rest of the Second Continental Congress to John Adams.) no, they are all against him it seems and yelling at him to sit down 3. What do John and Abigail talk about? (Simulates the letters they write to each other) diseases with the kids asked her to make saltpeter for gunpowder / doesn t know how it s made missed eachother need sewing pins 4. What does John complain to Ben Franklin about? 4. Why does Ben Franklin want someone other than John Adams to propose the vote for independence? Who volunteers? Why is he chosen? John s obnoxious and disliked Needs a delegate that has a legislature that has publicly proposed independence Richard Henry Lee- influential in Virginia, which is in the South 5. Who is Lyman Hall? Why is his appearance significant and interesting to everyone? new delegate from Georgia Everyone wants to know how he feels about independence 6. What does John Dickinson of Pennsylvania ask Lyman Hall? Why? what are your thoughts on treason? - independence is talking about overthrowing the mother country

2 7. Who is Ben Franklin s son? What can you tell about Franklin s feelings for his son? Royal governor of New Jersey - not in touch because he does not agree with him 8. What conditions are the colonists meeting under? 87 degrees miss their wives 9. What gets read out loud to the colonists? Letter from General George Washington 10. What can you tell about how the war is going? Terrible - army falling apart, no food, no ammo, British troops moving in from Canada to New York for an attack on George Washington using German mercenaries (Hessians) 11. What does Richard Henry Lee return with? Virginia resolution to vote for independence 12. What do the colonies first vote about? How does the vote go? Whether to discuss independence Gets passed so that they can now debate independenee 13. What reasons does the delegate from Pennsylvania (John Dickinson) give for NOT wanting independence? Not everyone views Britain Greatest empire Protection and benefits Thinks Adams is an agitator - it s because their taxes are too high Gentler means of dealing with our issues Doesn t want to do treason Considers himself an Englishman (Ben doesn t want to just be called an Englishman, he wants the rights of one) Came here for property Why does Boston and New England always cause the problems 14. What does South Carolina consider itself? Their own country United for protection but separate to make their own rules

3 15. What other reasons are given for not wanting independence by other delegates? We haven t decided what we ll be if we do get our independence, don t know if it will be better or worse Not ready for independence, no hurry If our army is defeated then what s the point - 2 million v. 10 million 16. What does John Adams mean by spirit? Needs a reason to fight, but the American colonists have their own identity and spirit to want to fight 17. Who arrives and why does their arrival matter so much? New delegates from New Jersey, they change the vote for independence 18. What does unanimous mean? everyone votes the same, all agree 19. What does Dickinson mean no colony should be torn from its mother country without it s consent? can t force a colony to commit treason or fight against its mother country then we might end up fighting colony vs. colony in the war 20. What reasons are there for writing the Declaration of Independence? need to know in writing why we want independence, so we are all on the same page common sense so everyone can understand send out to other countries so they can support us 21. What does it mean to abstain from voting? Why does the New York delegate keep abstaining? doesn t vote New York has never received instructions from their legislature 22. Who is on the Declaration committee? Roger Sherman - CT Robert Livingston - NY Thomas Jefferson - VA Benjamin Franklin - PA John Adams - MA

4 23. Why do they choose Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration? Good writer, written about the topic before, he is respected 24. How do John Adams and Ben Franklin try to deal with the split in votes for independence? Try to personally win Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Maryland over 25. What are the problems that General George Washington lists in his latest letter? disorder and confusion continental soldier - bad hygiene, disrespectful stupid officers New Jersey training ground in New Brunswick drunkenness, foul language, French disease, whoring 26. What obstacle does the Maryland delegate think the colonies cannot overcome? can t beat the best military in the world 27. What would it take for Maryland to say yes to independence? Does it happen? if he thinks we could win, yes he visits New Jersey 28. Which birds are proposed as being symbols for America? Turkey, Dove, Eagle 29. What are amendments? changes, deletions, additions 30. Why would they allow amendments to the Declaration? so that more people will agree with the document if they get to change it

5 31. Why is King George III of England called a tyrant in the Declaration? taking away rights right to be free comes from nature homes entered without warrant give up liberty to obtain safety will gain neither liberty nor safety Ben Franklin 32. What was the amendment process like? Long, difficult, lots of arguing and frustration, multiple days 85 separate changes and the removal of over 400 words 33. What is a huge regional obstacle to overcome (issue) when debating the Declaration of Independence? slavery - whether to free the slaves with the Declaration or not 34. What are the South s main arguments for keeping slavery in America? getting rid of slavery will hurt their economy too much it s their peculiar institution and way of life 35. The South claims the North is just as guilty as the South in terms of slavery why? New England ships the slaves on the triangle trade and makes money off of them even if they don t use them 36. What does the South do to show their opinion of the Declaration? they walk out of the 2nd Continental Congress meeting in protest 37. What viewpoint does John Hancock, the President of Congress, seem to have? Asks what he can do to help as President of Congress because he is from Massachusetts and agrees with independence

6 38. What kind of tone is Washington s latest letter to congress? What is he writing about? Is anybody there, does anybody care? Pretty gloomy and wants to know if Congress is going to do anything to help him 39. Who changes their votes and why? Georgia- goes with his opinion instead of the people s North and South Carolina- the slavery clause gets taken out, they get to keep slavery Pennsylvania- 40. Why is it requested that everyone sign his name on the document? mutual protection - so no one will go snitch and get everyone else hung 41. Does anyone holdout from signing? If so, what happens to them? John Dickinson 42. Why do the delegates act the way they do before and after the document is signed? Hancock- signs it large so fat King George in England can see it easily Serious business, considered treason 43. What is going on in the war according to the next Washington letter? 5,000 US army vs 25,000 British army we re prepared to lose a lot New York s delegate loses property and sons sign up for the war

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