1. Disagreements with Great Britain
Chapter 2 Lesson 3

2. Bell Ringer
Generate a list of 5-6 goods that you think the colonists exported during the 1700s?
(Study for Vocab Quiz when finished)

3. Social and Political Changes
Great Awakening
1740s-1760s
Religious movement
Resisted church leaders- build a direct relationship with God
Question religious authority (Enlightenment- political)
King and Parliament made rules for the colonists
Colonists had little voice
So far away from Great Britain
Colonists did not get to choose their leaders in the Colony

4. French and Indian War Colonies were growing- expanding westward
1750s Colonists were moving onto territory that belonged to France (west)
(Seven Year’s War)
Fighting between Great Britain and France (with Native Americans)
Great Britain won and took control of territory to the Mississippi
Proclamation Line of 1763
King George forbade the colonists from settling in the lands won from France

5. Proclamation Line of 1763
Mark line on your Map!

7. Colonial Dissatisfaction Grows
Taxes to pay off war debts
Colonists boycotted goods
Complete the timeline with a partner

8. Exit Slips
How did the Great Awakening affect colonial attitudes?

9. Bell Ringer Select one tax that would enrage you as a colonist. Why?

10. Steps Towards Independence
First Continental Congress
Sept Delegates from 12 colonies in Philadelphia
Discussed issues within the colonies
Wrote a letter to Great Britain
Boycott of British goods
Second Continental Congress
May 1775 Lexington and Concord battles were fought
Continue working towards peace or split from Britain?
Loyalists vs. Patriot
1776 Thomas Paine published a pamphlet called Common Sense- made the call for Independence

11. Steps Towards Independence
Declaration of Independence
Document telling the world why the colonies should be free
Influenced by enlightenment thinkers
Complete the Scavenger Hunt of the Declaration of Independence with a partner on page 65