1. Please Pick up a textbook on your way to your seat
Trivia Tuesday August 16, 2016
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Warm Up
Google Classroom / Remind
Text Notes
Home Fun: Copy in planner
Finish Vocabulary
Finish Text Notes – both due tomorrow.
Warm Up:
Read “Roots of Democracy” on page 10 in your textbook. Answer the two Thinking Critically questions in 1-2 sentences each.
Please Pick up a textbook on your way to your seat
Periods 1, 2, 4, 6

2. Google Classroom and Remind
Refer to handout

3. Text Notes Fold our paper into three columns
Go to the first page of the chapter and section assigned
Use the title of the section as the title of your notes:
Use the Focus Question as your Essential Question
READ the text.
Turn the RED heading in to a question. Write this in the left margin.
Answer the question with at least 3-4 bullet points in the middle section.
Leave at least space in between each red heading
Highlight and answer the focus question at the end of your notes in 3-5 sentences

4. Text Notes Fold our paper into three columns
Go to the first page of the chapter and section assigned
Use the title of the section as the title of your notes:
Use the Focus Question as your Essential Question
READ the text.
Turn the RED heading in to a question. Write this in the left margin.
Answer the question with at least 3-4 bullet points in the middle section.
Leave at least space in between each red heading
Highlight and answer the focus question at the end of your notes in 3-5 sentences

6. Please Pick up a textbook on your way to your seat
Wise Wednesday August 17, 2016
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3 Gratitude's
Warm Up
School Webpage
CL – The American Rev.
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Work on your notes – highlight, answer the eq – I will collect them tomorrow
Warm Up:
As you watch the video write down three things you learned about the causes of the American Revolution.
Please Pick up a textbook on your way to your seat
Periods 1, 2, 4, 6

7. Chapter 1 The Nation’s Beginnings

8. Review: Development of the North vs. South
Geography, Economy, Politics, etc. (pg 11)
New England Colonies
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies

10. Britain and Its Colonies
What was the purpose of the colonial system?
How was this accomplished?
Mercantilism: economic system in which nations seek to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by establishing a favorable balance of trade
Navigation Acts: series of laws restricting colonial trade

12. Britain and Its Colonies
What was the purpose of the colonial system?
How was this accomplished?
Mercantilism: economic system in which nations seek to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by establishing a favorable balance of trade
Navigation Acts: series of laws restricting colonial trade
Salutary Neglect: (beneficial neglect) England relaxed enforcement of most regulations in return for continued economic loyalty of the colonies – Why?

13. Colonial Government Royal Governor Council Colonial Assembly
British Crown
Royal Governor
appointed by the crown
oversaw trade
had final approval on laws
could dismiss colonial assembly
Council
Colonial Assembly
appointed by governor
advised governor
acted as highest court
Made laws
had authority to tax
paid governor salary
elected by eligible colonists

14. Foreshadowing:1707

15. New Ideas Influence the Colonists
Enlightenment
The world is governed not by chance or miracles but by fixed laws and reason
Colonial leaders used reason to conclude that individuals have natural rights which governments must respect
The Great Awakening
Early 1700s – Puritan church started losing its hold on society
Preachers such as Jonathan Edwards led a religious revival; challenged authority of established churches
What do these two movements have in common?

16. Early 1700s – Puritan church started losing its hold on society
Enlightenment
The world is governed not by chance or miracles but by fixed laws and reason
Colonial leaders used reason to conclude that individuals have natural rights which governments must respect
The Great Awakening
Early 1700s – Puritan church started losing its hold on society
Preachers such as Jonathan Edwards led a religious revival; challenged authority of established churches
BOTH CAUSED PEOPLE TO QUESTION TRADITIONAL AUTHORITY – Colonists will begin to question Britain’s authority over their lives

17. Based on the map, what do you see as the primary cause of the French and Indian War? (a.k.a. the North American theater of the Seven Years’ War…)

18. Britain: granted 200,000 acres of land in Ohio country to wealthy planters
France: built Fort Duquesne where the Allegheny and Monongahela form the Ohio River

19. SOLUTION?
Britain sends an ambitious 22-year-old officer named George Washington to capture Fort Duquesne
The French counterattacked at Fort Necessity – these battles signaled the beginning of the French and Indian War

20. Great Britain claimed all of North America east of the Mississippi
TREATY OF PARIS: 1763
Great Britain claimed all of North America east of the Mississippi
Spain gained all French lands west of the Mississippi, including New Orleans
Native Americans hostile to the British; SOLUTION = Proclamation of 1763
Problems with the Proclamation?

21. PROBLEMS RESULTING FROM THE WAR Prime Minister George Grenville
Trouble in the Colonies:
PROBLEMS RESULTING FROM THE WAR
10,000 British troops stationed in territories to control Native Americans and former French subjects  how will this be viewed by the colonists?
Britain nearly doubled its debt during the war  how would it lower its debt?
Prime Minister George Grenville
King George III

22. Prime Minister George Grenville
Trouble in the Colonies:
SUGAR ACT
Prime Minister George Grenville suspected smuggling
1764 – Sugar Act passed
Halved the duty on foreign-made molasses
Placed duties on certain imports
Strengthened enforcement of the law allowing prosecutors to try smuggling cases in a vice-admiralty court rather than colonial court
Prime Minister George Grenville

23. Trouble in the Colonies: 1764-1775
British Actions and Colonial Reactions

24. Trouble in the Colonies: 1764-1775
British Actions and Colonial Reactions

26. Trouble in the Colonies: 1764-1775
British Actions and Colonial Reactions

27. Trouble in the Colonies: 1764-1775
British Actions and Colonial Reactions

28. Arguments for Independence
THE IDEAS THAT STARTED THE REVOLUTION Pg
Create a t-chart that looks like the following:
Arguments for Independence
Thomas Paine: Common Sense
Patrick Henry: Give me liberty…

29. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
Patrick Henry: “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death”
With a partner, choose one of the readings/speeches to analyze (you analyze one, your partner analyzes the other.) Read through and write down the main arguments for independence from each. Share these arguments with your partner. Put a star next to the two arguments you think are the most convincing.

30. “It’s too late to apologize…”

31. The Declaration of Independence
Democratic Roots
What exactly does the Declaration of Independence say and mean?

32. Democratic Roots in the English Experience
Magna Carta (1215)
The King was subject to the rule of law
Trial by jury guaranteed; Parliament levied taxes

33. English Bill of Rights (1689)
Written during the Age of Absolutism
Established limits on the powers of kings & queens
The people were guaranteed basic rights:
Right to petition the government
Right to an impartial & speedy trial
Protection against excessive fines & bails
Protection from cruel & unusual punishment

34. Common Law Bicameral Legislature
In England, the verdicts of judges were written down & became the basis for future legal decisions (precedents)
Bicameral Legislature
In the 14thc. Parliament split into 2 houses
House of Lords (clergy & nobility)
House of Commons (wealthy middle class)

35. Constitutional Development in Colonial America
Based on the theory of limited government
Each colony had a charter (a grant of privileges from the King)
3 basic types:
Self-governing/Corporate
Colonists choose governor/joint-stock company
Proprietary
Royal grant given to an owner of the land
Royal
King selects officials directly

36. The Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
History of Us: A Congress of Great Men (2:43)
History of Us: All Men Are Created Equal (2:43)
History of Us: No Turning Back (2:43)
The Declaration of Independence

37. The D of I: The Content (1776)
The Preamble
Introduction explaining that separation has become necessary to preserve natural law & natural rights
The Next Paragraph:
Theory of democratic government

38. The D of I: The Content (1776)
The Next Paragraph:
Theory of democratic government
4 Fundamental Principles:
Doctrine of “unalienable rights” including “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”
Contract theory of government
Doctrine of popular sovereignty
Right of revolution to “throw off such Government” that is guilty of “a long train of abuses & usurpations”

39. The D of I: The Content (1776)
The List of Complaints:
Attack on King George III lists the reasons for separation
The entire D of I is directed toward the King and not Parliament because Americans claimed Parliament had no authority over them in the first place
Ends with The Actual Declaration:
Resulting in “Free and Independent States”
It is also a formal declaration of war

40. The D of I: The Effects (1776)
Immediate Effect:
Revolution & establishment of a new nation
Long-Term Effects:
Committed America to carry out the highest political ideals of the age
Jefferson: “An expression of the American mind.”
The D of I’s message of “equality” has continued to serve as a model for other societies even though America has struggled with the concept itself (racism; sexism; etc.)

41. FIGHTING THE WAR The British Advantages Disadvantages Tactics
The Americans