1. US HISTORY Measurement Topic 1: The founding of a new nation
Learning Target 1: What ideas and actions caused the American Revolutionary war.

2. Vocab
Colony – When a nation sends people to go take over a piece of land in another nation
Taking over new land/territory
Revolution – A rebellion or a war to change something

3. Enlightenment ideas Separation of power Locke and Rousseau Montesquieu
Everyone has rights
Natural Rights –Life, liberty, and own property
Government gets its power from the people
If a government doesn’t protect the peoples rights it can be overthrown
Rousseau
All of Locke's ideas and…. That people give up some rights so that they can be protected
People should elect representatives to run the gov. for them
Separation of power
When one person or group has all the power, then it becomes corrupt = violates people’s rights
Separate a governments power up to keep it from being corrupt
treemap

4. Location

5. Government of the 13 colonies
Problems between Colonies and England
England was far way and didn’t always make the right decisions
England made the colonies only trade and buy stuff from them
England did not let the colonies have a representative, so England made bad laws
The 13 colonies were located in America but controlled/ruled by England
England made decisions regarding what it thought was best for the 13 colonies

6. Bad Actions Quartering Act- soldiers in homes Sugar Act- Tax on sugar
Taxes, taxes, and more taxes
Boston Massacre
Quartering Act- soldiers in homes
Sugar Act- Tax on sugar
Stamp Act –Tax on paper
Townshend Act –Taxes and punishment
Coercive Act –punish those who challenged British authority = Intolerable acts
13 colonist and British soldiers are facing off
Tensions between the two sides exploded
Someone shoots = everyone starts shooting
5 colonist were killed
Soon after the English send a lot of troops to colonies and
=American Revolutionary War
Brain pop movie
Libery kids

7. Ideas + Bad actions = WAR
American Revolutionary war
What ideas started war?
Actions/Events that started the war
Locke’s ideas
Everyone has rights and they should not be violated
People create governments to protect their rights
IF a government violates peoples rights it can be overthrown
Montesquieu
When one person has all the power = corrupt gov.
Rousseau
People should have representatives
England made laws with out colonist consent/ok
England did not allow the colonists to have a representative to fight unfair laws
England taxed, taxed, taxed the colonist
Massacre of the five colonist
In order to protect their rights the colonist went to war
To get their rights they deserved the colonist went to war
To be free of their bad government the colonist went to war