1. How do you react if you feel like you are being treated unfairly?
Write your best response to the question in your notes

2. The French and Indian War 1754–1763
Ft. Necessity:
The battle, which took place on July 3, 1754, was an early battle of the French and Indian War, and resulted in the surrender of British colonial forces under Colonel George Washington, to the French and Indians, under Louis Coulon de Villiers.

4. Economic Strain on the Colonies
Parliamentary Acts
Economic Strain on the Colonies

5. Timeline 1651 – The Navigation Act of 1651
1763 – Great Britain issues the Proclamation Act of 1763
1764 – Parliament passes the Sugar Act to raise revenue in the colonies
1764 – The Currency Act forbade further issues of paper money in the colonies
1765 – The Stamp Act places new taxes on American colonists
1766 – Parliament repeals the Stamp Act, but then passed the Declaratory Act
1767 – The Townshend Revenue Acts are passed

6. Timeline – cont. 1767 – The Townshend Revenue Acts are passed
1770 – Five colonists are killed by British troops in the Boston Massacre
1773 – The Tea Act is passed by Parliament
1773 – Sons of Liberty destroy British tea at the Boston Tea Party
1773 – The Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts) are passed to punish protestors in Boston
1774 – The First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia

7. How do the colonists react?
The Boston Tea Party

9. Signing the Declaration of Independence

10. Questions

11. Signing the Declaration of Independence

16. Creating a Society Activity

18. James Madison Father of the U.S. Constitution
Author of the Bill of Rights

20. The American Experiment
"The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people."
--George Washington’s Inaugural Speech

21. George Washington
The President of Precedence

22. Jefferson’s Conundrum
Strict interpretation vs. needs & opportunity
The Louisiana Purchase

25. The Monroe Doctrine
“In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part….We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety.”

26. The Monroe Doctrine
When U.S. President James Monroe signed into law a doctrine outlining the new rules preventing European powers from colonizing and/or otherwise interfering in the political events of Latin America in 1823, the vague concept of spheres of influence was finally given true form:  Any interference in the Western hemisphere by outside powers, declared Monroe during the speech, would be interpreted as a direct threat to the United States.