1. A Nation is Born 1750-1800 pp. 117-125 Persuasive Speech and Rhetoric

2. Journal Entry What does it mean to be an American? What makes someone an American?

3. J. Hector St. John de CREVECOEUR P. 192 pp. 198-199 What is Crevecoeur's overall assessment of America? Discuss Crevecoeur's description of “an American” in the context of today’s world. What parts hold up? What parts no longer apply?

4. Discuss How were the issues of the 1600s mostly theological and how were the 1700s mostly political? Why did people migrate to the New World? Religious freedom What did they establish? Massachusetts Bay Colony lead by John Winthrop

5. Discuss On what was this community based? Equality, despite conflictions of damnation for disbelieving. So if you didn’t believe, what could you do? What did Abigail do? What did the Quakers and Catholics do? Rhode Island; Pennsylvania; Maryland They all set up legislatures.

6. Discuss What conflict might this cause? Power struggles Enter the end of England’s Seven Years’ War with France. What conflict did this create for the colonies?

7. Class work 1765 1767 1774 1775 1776 1778 1781 1783 1789 1801

8. Identify the 13 colonies 1._______________ 2._______________ 3._______________ 4._______________ 5._______________ 6._______________ 7._______________ 8._______________ 9._______________ 10._______________ 11._______________ 12._______________ 13._______________