View
1
Download
0
Category
Preview:
Citation preview
9/20/2012
1
Causes of American Revolution
9/20/2012
2
French & French & French & French & Indian WarIndian WarIndian WarIndian War1754175417541754----1763176317631763
9/20/2012
3
ProclamationProclamationProclamationProclamationOf 1763Of 1763Of 1763Of 1763
9/20/2012
4
British TaxesBritish TaxesBritish TaxesBritish Taxes1764176417641764
9/20/2012
5
QuarteringQuarteringQuarteringQuarteringActActActAct1765176517651765
9/20/2012
6
StampStampStampStampActActActAct1765176517651765
9/20/2012
7
TownshendTownshendTownshendTownshendActsActsActsActs1767176717671767
B.M. to followB.M. to followB.M. to followB.M. to follow
9/20/2012
8
BostonBostonBostonBostonMassacreMassacreMassacreMassacre1770177017701770
Movie Clip: 5min
9/20/2012
9
Boston Boston Boston Boston TeaTeaTeaTea
Party 1773Party 1773Party 1773Party 1773
9/20/2012
10
CoerciveCoerciveCoerciveCoerciveActsActsActsActs1774177417741774
9/20/2012
11
LexingtonLexingtonLexingtonLexington&&&&
ConcordConcordConcordConcord1775177517751775
Movie Clip:
12min
�Identify and describe the major causes
leading up to the American Revolution
Choose 2
Describe the event then explain how it
pushed the American colonists closer to
rebellion
9/20/2012
12
9/20/2012
13
First Continental Congress
(3min)
Use this reading
on p. 12 to
answer questions
#1-2
9/20/2012
14
Hunt and Peck!
*Use margins*
9/20/2012
15
9/20/2012
16
Turn to p.14. Let’s work
on the left hand column
together. When we are
done you will use your
textbook to complete
the notes.
9/20/2012
17
9/20/2012
18
PART 2:Declaration of
Rights
9/20/2012
19
PART 3:List of
Grievances
9/20/2012
20
9/20/2012
21
Declaration of Independence: What Declaration of Independence: What
it Meansit Means
• Read the excerpt and discuss the meaning.
• Takes notes as you proceed through the
assignment
• Rephrase the excerpts into contemporary language
Declaration
of Ind 1min
9/20/2012
22
• Excerpt 1: “When in the Course
of human events it becomes
necessry for one people to
dissolve the political bands
which have connected them with
Another …
• a decent
respect to the opinions of
mankind requires that they
should declare the causes which
impel them to the separation.”
• What it means……
• When you break up/separate
• You should say why you’re breaking up
Excerpt 2:
• “We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are
created equal,
• that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that
among these are Life, Liberty
and the pursuit of Happiness.”
• What it means…
• Duh! Everybody
knows that we
are all equal.
• Everyone has the
same rights to life,
liberty, pursuit of
happiness
9/20/2012
23
Excerpt 3:
• “That to secure these
rights, Governments are
instituted
among Men,
• deriving their
just powers from the consent of
the governed.”
• What it
means…
• Government’s
are created to
protect our
rights
• Governments get
their power from
its citizens
• .
Excerpt 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,
• and to institute new Government.”
• What it means…
• If government
becomes bad
we can get rid
of it
• If we get rid of
government we
have to create a
new one
9/20/2012
24
Excerpt 5: “The history of the
present King of Great Britain
is a history of repeated injuries
and usurpations, all having in
direct object the establishment
of an absolute Tyranny over
these States.”
• What it means…
• King George keeps hurting us
over and over again
Excerpt 6: He has refused his
Assent to Laws, the most
wholesome and necessary for
the public good.”
• What it
means…
• He won’t pass
laws that help
us
9/20/2012
25
Excerpt 7: He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
• What it means…
• The king got
rid of our
legislature just
for standing
up to him.
Excerpt 8: “We, therefore…
solemnly publish and declare,
That these United Colonies
are, and of Right ought to be
Free and Independent States.”
• What it
means…
• Because of all
this stuff we
are now
independent.
9/20/2012
26
Excerpt 9: they are absolved
from all allegiance to the
British Crown, and that all
political connection between
them and the state of Great
Britain, is and ought to be
totally dissolved; and that as
free and independent states,
they have full power to levy
war, conclude peace, contract
alliances, establish commerce,
and to do all other acts and
things which independent
states may of right do
• What it
means…
• We have
nothing left to
connect to
Great Britain
• We can do
whatever we
want now
9/20/2012
27
9/20/2012
28
Recommended