1. The Story So Far…

2. For Starters You need a notebook! 3 ring binder with loose leaf
You need to bring your notebook everyday and takes notes every time Ms. Rogers says “We are taking notes”
There will be notebook quizzes
Do you take notes when Ms. Rogers says to?
Is you notebook organized and dated?
Then you will do FANTASTICALLY well on your NB quizzes
Warm-ups go in notebook, too, on your own paper
Date them and answer the questions so you know what is being asked (or copy question down)

3. The British settled the North American Continent
13 original colonies
New England, Middle colonies, Southern colonies
The South becomes a slavery-dependent region with plantations (or large farms)
Slaves imported from Africa
Some indentured servants used in Virginia
Whereas the North and Middle colonies are more manufacturing, fishing, and small-scale farming based economies
DO NOW: On your notes sheets, list the major characteristics of the New England, Middle and Southern colonies

4. A period of time known as the “Enlightenment” takes root in Europe in the 1700s
Spreads to America
Ideals of liberty, right to property, etc.
Philosopher John Locke write about “natural rights” (rights to liberty, life, property)
Thomas Jefferson eventually borrows Locke’s Ideas to draft the:

5. French and Indian War
The English and French go to war with one another over land in North America
The French lose a good chunk of land as a result of the war
The British then have a huge empire in North America but have spent a lot of $$ on the war
In 1763 the King of England issues the Proclamation of 1763
DO NOW: Why did Britain issue the Proclamation of 1763? What did it say? How did the American colonists feel about it? (answer all 3 questions on your notes sheet)

6. The Beginning of the Revolution
Remember! The British were now “poor” thanks to the French and Indian War,so what do they do?
DO NOW: What do you think the British began doing in the late 1760s through 1770s that angered the colonists?

7. Tensions Rising
The American colonist became increasingly frustrated with the British
The Stamp Act
The Quartering Act
The Townshend Acts
The Tea Act
The Intolerable Acts (response to Boston Tea Party)
Increasing British troop presence to “watch-over” American colonists

8. Tensions between American Colonists and the British 1763-1775
Fill in any missing blanks and answer these questions:
What sort of feelings did British policies evoke from the colonists?
What period of time/philosophical movement inspired Americans to feel this way?
Colonial “Minutemen” and British soldiers clash in the first armed conflict of the Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord
In 1773, England passes the Tea Act, which creates a monopoly on tea. The colonists respond by having the _____________
_____ __________. Their punishment is the ________________
_________.
1767 The Townshend Acts:
American protestors are killed by British Soldiers in the ___________
___________ in March of
1770
The __________ _______ passed by English Parliament taxes things such as newspapers and playing cards. Colonists were angry.
1765 The Quartering Act:
The Proclamation of__________
says that colonists may not settle west of the Appalachian Mts

9. Road to Revolution
The First Continental Congress meets in 1774 after the Intolerable Acts are passed
Congress issues a Declaration of Rights calling for a removal of British troops from colonies and repeal of the Intolerable Acts
(Petition to the King)
Agreed to boycott British
goods
Formed militias (“minutemen”)

10. Road to Revolution Not long after the First Continental Congress,
British soldiers and American minutemen face-off
in the first armed conflict of the Revolutionary
War: Lexington and Concord (April 1775)
The British had planned a surprise attack on colonist to capture colonial weapons that had been stock piled in Concord
Americans surprised the British in Lexington, on the way to Concord, and despite being outnumbered, held their own in the skirmish
Known as the “shot heard ‘round the world”

11. War!
With the conflict at Lexington and Concord, colonial leaders knew they need to meet again: Second Continental Congress (May 1775)
Created official “Continental Army”
Leader: George Washington (French & Indian War general)
Created two opposing documents:
“Olive Branch Petition”
A Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms (hmm, sounds familiar?)

12. War! King George III rejects the olive branch petition
Thomas Jefferson (Virginia lawyer) finishes the Declaration of Independence
(Important: See Ms. Rogers if you did NOT cover the Dec. of Independence in your class yet)

13. Why did the Americans win?
More to lose! What would have happened had they lost?
Knew the land
French help! After an American victory at the Battle of Saratoga
Ben Franklin’s mad diplomatic skillz

14. Treaty of Paris 1783 Britain recognizes U.S. as a sovereign nation
Gives them the land we see here (in pink)
To Mississippi River
Britain recognizes U.S. as a sovereign nation
Gives them the land we see here (in pink)
To Mississippi River
Loyalists essentially
“forgiven”