1. HTS Workshop: Causation
Linking Cause and Effect

2. Linking Cause and Effect
How one action impacted another event or development
Historical relationships arise from causes and effects
When you couple causes with their consequences, you are able to construct both short-term and long-term connections that help establish broader trends, generalizations, and themes
Emphasizes the broader significance of history, not just the isolated facts

3. Practicing the Skill Analyze the prompt
Make a link between the cause & effect

4. PROMPT: What single action between 1763 and 1776 was most damaging to British-colonial relations? Defend you choice.
Cause: French and Indian War
Effect:
Gave England a vast empire
Doubled the size of British debt
Created tension between Britain and colonies
Eliminated the French threat in North America

5. Applying the skill
Continuing with the same prompt, examine the eight actions listed below
Make a list of the effects each one had on British-colonial relations
After completing the list, decide with actions was most damaging to British-colonial relations

6. What was the most damaging action? Why?
PROMPT: What single action between 1763 and 1776 was most damaging to British-colonial relations? Defend you choice.
1. Cause: Townsend Acts
Effects?
2. Cause: Coercive Acts
3. Cause: Sugar Act
4. Cause: Boston Massacre
5. Cause: Stamp Act
Effects?
6. Cause: Salutary Neglect
7. Cause: Stamp Act Congress
8. Cause: Boston Tea Party
What was the most damaging action? Why?