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Day 22: The Road to Revolution

Day 22: The Road to Revolution. Baltimore Polytechnic Institute September 25, 2013 A/A.P. U.S. History Mr. Green. Examining the Road to Revolution.

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Day 22: The Road to Revolution

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  1. Day 22: The Road to Revolution Baltimore Polytechnic Institute September 25, 2013 A/A.P. U.S. History Mr. Green

  2. Examining the Road to Revolution Objective: Students will evaluate the decision by Britain to tax the American colonies after 1763 by describing the responses of both the British and the American colonists.

  3. Quiz: Warm-up 1. These new regulations were a light import duty on glass, white lead, paper, paint and tea. 2. This was formed with 27 delegates from nine colonies in New York City in 1765. 3. Crispus Attucks, who some say was the first casualty of the American Revolution, died during this event. 4. These were formed to spread the spirit of resistance by exchanging letters to keep alive opposition to British policy. 5. Identify 3 acts within the hated “Intolerable Acts”

  4. Guided Practice-Taxes Make an argument for the most significant action of the British Parliament that helped fuel the antagonisms of the American colonists

  5. Tea Brewing in Boston British East India Company Complete monopoly of American tea business Boston Tea Party symbolic rallying cry for the nation-why? British reaction Home rule or intolerable Acts Closed Boston Harbor restrictions on town meetings enforcing officials indicted for murder of colonists tried in Britain Quartering Act Quebec Act expanded Catholic jurisdiction into an area earmarked for Protestantism

  6. Bloodshed 1st Continental Congress-1774 Declaration of rights-John Adams persuades for revolution over home rule The Association-complete boycott of British goods Parliament rejected Congress’s petitions Lexington and Concord Britain wanted to seize gunpowder and stop the rebels

  7. Imperial Strengths and Weaknesses Professional army Paid Mercenaries British Treasury American Loyalists Native Americans Oppressed Ireland France Family Second-rate generals/poor food Distance Physical features Traded space for time

  8. American Pluses and Minuses Leadership-George Washington/Ben Franklin Foreign Aid-from France Defensive Fight Self-sustaining Moral advantage/just cause Jealousy Economic difficulties/inflation

  9. Closing/Exit Ticket Students will identify the critical events of the 1760s by completing the 1760s decade chart

  10. Homework Read Chapter 7 Begin research for Great Debate Resumes due on Monday

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