1. Tuesday, Nov. 7 Get out your spiral and put your binder on the floor
2. Update Table of Contents
Date Title Entry #
11/5 Olive Branch Petition v. Common Sense 50
11/7 Ch. 6/Section 4: Declaring Independence 51
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4. Olive Branch Petition v. Common Sense Use History Alive page 110
After the battles at Lexington and Concord and the British retreat from back to Boston, there were many more battles, and most yet few colonists began to cry for independence.
Make a Venn Diagram: Record at least one similarity and at least three differences between the Olive Branch Petition and Common Sense

5. Olive Branch Petition
Common Sense
Give
solutions to
the problems
between
Great Britain
and the
colonies.

6. Olive Branch Petition
Common Sense
* Written to King George.
*Colonists ask for
an end to the
quarrels and
hope for peace.
*King George
rejects it and
calls colonists
traitors.
Give
solutions to
the problems
between
Great Britain
and the
colonies.

7. Olive Branch Petition
Common Sense
* Written to King George.
*Colonists ask for
an end to the
quarrels and
hope for peace.
*King George
rejects it and
calls colonists
traitors.
*Written to
colonists.
*Claims Great
Britain has hurt
the colonists.
*Thousands of
colonists are
persuaded to
declare independence.
Give
solutions to
the problems
between
Great Britain
and the
colonies.

8. Chapter 6/Section 4: Declaring Independence
Categorizing
Political Actions
Outcomes
1. Second Continental Congress meets (May 1775)
Chose George Washington as military commander
Authorized printing of paper money

10. Chapter 6/Section 4: Declaring Independence
Categorizing
Political Actions
Outcomes
1. Second Continental Congress meets (May 1775)
2. Congress drafts the Olive Branch Petition (July 1775)
Military Actions
Americans attack Fort Ticonderoga
(May 1775)
Americans captured the fort and its cannons and large guns

12. Chapter 6/Section 4: Declaring Independence
Categorizing
Political Actions
Outcomes
1. Second Continental Congress meets (May 1775)
2. Congress drafts the Olive Branch Petition (July 1775)
King George rejected the petition (blockaded entire colonies, sent German mercenaries called Hessians)

15. Battle of Bunker Hill

16. Chapter 6/Section 4: Declaring Independence
Categorizing
Political Actions
Outcomes
1. Second Continental Congress meets (May 1775)
2. Congress drafts the Olive Branch Petition (July 1775)
Military Actions
Americans attack Fort Ticonderoga
(May 1775)
4. Continental Army fights in the Battle of Bunker Hill (June 1775)
British won but suffered huge causalities. Moral victory for the Americans

17. Chapter 6/Section 4: Declaring Independence
Categorizing
Political Actions
Outcomes
1. Second Continental Congress meets (May 1775)
2. Congress drafts the Olive Branch Petition (July 1775)
Military Actions
Americans attack Fort Ticonderoga
(May 1775)
4. Continental Army fights in the Battle of Bunker Hill (June 1775)
5. Continental Army invades Quebec (Nov. 1775)
Continental Army was defeated

18. Chapter 6/Section 4: Declaring Independence
Categorizing
Political Actions
Outcomes
1. Second Continental Congress meets (May 1775)
2. Congress drafts the Olive Branch Petition (July 1775)
Military Actions
Americans attack Fort Ticonderoga
(May 1775)
4. Continental Army fights in the Battle of Bunker Hill (June 1775)
5. Continental Army invades Quebec (Nov. 1775)
6. Continental Army surrounds British forces in Boston (Jan. 1776)
Continental Army’s show of strength causes British soldiers and Loyalists to leave Boston

19. Common Sense

20. Common Sense Entry 55 Who: *Thomas Paine was an immigrant
from England.
*He was asked to write an essay
urging independence
Common Sense

21. Common Sense Entry 56 Who: *Thomas Paine was an immigrant
from England.
*He was asked to write an essay
urging independence
Common Sense
When:
*Common Sense was written in Jan. 1776

22. Common Sense Entry 56 Why: Who: * Parliament didn’t have the right
to make laws for the colonies.
*Kings are corrupt
*Economically, we could survive w/out
England
Who:
*Thomas Paine was an immigrant
from England.
*He was asked to write an essay
urging independence
Common Sense
When:
*Common Sense was written in Jan. 1776

23. Common Sense Entry 56 Why: Who: * Parliament didn’t have the right
to make laws for the colonies.
*Kings are corrupt
*Economically, we could survive w/out
England
Who:
*Thomas Paine was an immigrant
from England.
*He was asked to write an essay
urging independence
Common Sense
When:
*Common Sense was written in Jan. 1776
Significance:
This pamphlet sold many colonists on the idea of independence.