Skills Debrief Short Answer Questions: You guys did a great job! Each part was worth 5pts Most deductions were taken if the answer was generalized without having specific examples or without being explained all the way.
Notes - Timeline Write the name of each event on your timeline template and describe the significance or main idea of each event. 1763 - Navigation Laws enforced again 1764 - Sugar Act 1765 - Quartering Act 1765 - Stamp Act 1765 - Stamp Act Congress 1766 - Declaratory Act (and repeal of Stamp Act) 1767 - Townshend Acts 1770 - Boston Massacre 1772 - Committees of Correspondence 1773 - Boston Tea Party 1774 - Intolerable Acts 1774 - Quebec Act 1774-1st Continental Congress 1775 - Lexington and Concord 1776 - Common Sense 1776 - Declaration of Independence
Choose 1 event and explain how it fits within a broader regional, national, or global context during this time period. Choose 2 events and explain the relative cause/effect between them. Be sure to distinguish between causation and correlation. Identify one other short term cause or effect related to these events. Identify one other long term cause or effect related to these events. In this time period, what is one example of continuity? What is one example of change over time? Choose one date/event that you would consider a turning point and explain why you give it this distinction.
Quiz Ch. 6-7
How revolutionary was the American Revolution? How were the colonists convinced to overthrow British rule rather than to simply reconcile?
Review (nothing to write) Philosophical Shifts: Enlightenment emphasized individual talent over hereditary privilege Religion strengthened Americans view of themselves as a people blessed with liberty. Support for republican forms of government based on the natural rights of the people (seen in Common Sense, Dec of Ind) Role of women: republican motherhood called on women to teach republican values within the family. British actions violated: rights of British subjects rights of the individual local traditions of self-rule ideas of the Enlightenment
Revolutionary Propaganda (set you notes up you ll fill this part out on your own during today s activity) Patriots Characteristics: Loyalists Characteristics: Propaganda/Key Arguments: Propaganda/Key Arguments:
As Revolution Begins Loyalists (Tories) Educated Wealthy Anglican Feared chaos Patriots (Whigs) Young New England Congregationalist Feared oppression
How were the colonists convinced to overthrow British rule rather than to simply reconcile? Your small group will rotate through 4 documents. For each, note the author s arguments for/against revolution. Come up with 1-2 questions for the author. Ask them to: Clarify something in the passage Contextualize How does fit in with going on at the time? Explain contradictions
Question The Author Loyalist 1 Patriot 1 Loyalist 2 Patriot 2
Patriot 2
Enlightenment Independence Enlightenment: European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing science, reason, and individualism rather than tradition and religion Impact on Society Great Awakening in America (response to secularization) Impact on Politics (they thought that logic and reason could also be used to improve society, law, and government) Locke: self-gov, natural rights, social contract, consent of governed Rousseau: common good freedom balance, no nobility, liberty, equality Montesquieu: opposed tyranny, liberty, separation of powers
Enlightenment Influence For each phrase, work with your groups to identify which enlightenment philosopher/concept influenced it. (L, R, or M) We hold these truths to be self-evident 1. that all men are created equal 2. that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. 3. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, 4. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, 5. and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness
Declaration of Independence Second Continental Congress approved July 2, adopted July 4 1776. Wanted to make sure the document explained why the colonists wanted to separate Section 1: Philosophy of Government Natural Rights: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness Popular Sovereignty: People are the source of political authority Order: Importance of stability, overthrowing a government is only the last resort.
Declaration of Independence Section 2: Grievances against King George III Dismissing colonial legislatures and denying the colonists their right for self-government Taxing the colonists without their consent Maintaining an army in the colonies without the consent of the legislature and elevating the military above civilian authority Forcing colonists to house British soldiers in their house Making judges dependent on the King for their salaries and their tenure in office Refusing colonists the right to a fair trial in front of a jury of their peers Cutting off the trade of the colonies Abolishing the Charters, forms of government, and important laws of the colonies Refusing to address colonial grievances Renouncing the King s authority to govern the colonies by waging war on them Encouraging domestic violence and Indian attacks on the colonies
Impact of Declaration of Independence Ideals of equality led to Civil War, Women s Rights and the Civil Rights Movement Influenced the French Revolution in their Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in 1789 Latin American Movements of 1890s Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh used it as a reason to invade the south
Republican Motherhood Ideology that gave women a political function - raising children to be virtuous citizens (without their engaging in political activity outside the domestic realm). Women s role during revolution boycotts and riots "Daughters of Liberty" raised money, and spun and wove cloth in their own homes. camp followers and spies few fought, disguised as men Educate women in order to instruct their sons in the duties and virtues they would need to maintain liberty and self-government.