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Causes of American Revolution

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Movie Clip: 5min

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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

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First Continental Congress

(3min)

Use this reading

on p. 12 to

answer questions

#1-2

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Hunt and Peck!

*Use margins*

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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.

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PART 2:Declaration of

Rights

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PART 3:List of

Grievances

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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

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• 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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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