Pre-AP Agenda: 10/13- 17)Monday - No School (European

Disease Victory Day- jk!)

Tuesday- Begin Unit 3-

Inner/Outer Circle- French & Indian WarWednesday- Begin the

Declaration of Independence (Part I- The Break Up)

Thursday- Bucketing Activity

Friday- Declaration, Part II:

The Grievences- Declaration Part III:

The Future- Last Day of the

Grading Period!

This Week’s Agenda: 10/13- 17

Monday - No School (European

Disease Victory Day- jk)

Tuesday- Begin Unit 3-

Inner/Outer Circle- French & Indian WarWednesday- Begin the

Declaration of Independence (Part I- The Break Up)

Thursday- Declaration Part II:

The Grievances

Friday- Declaration Part III:

The Future- Last Day of the

Grading Period!

As you Come In…On the board by my desk, write

something you know or think you know about the

Revolutionary Era of America

Tuesday

Details

In 20 years, you should remember

Stuff You Should Know

The Colonies Before 1763By 1750, the American colonies were bursting with growth. In just a century,

the population of the colonies had grown from 50,000 to more than a

million people. What brought about this rapid growth? 

Cheap land? Religious tolerance? Economic opportunity? All of

these were important in attracting people to the colonies. 

But there was another reason…Adapted from the TCI History Alive text, pages 88-89

For more than a century, the British government had, for the most part, left the

colonies alone to solve their own problems. During this time, Americans had

learned to govern themselves. Each colony elected its own assembly. Like the

British Parliament, the assemblies had the power to pass laws and to create and collect taxes. Each assembly also decided how the

colony’s tax money should be spent. Americans had more freedom to run their own

affairs than ordinary people in any country in Europe. Self-government also made the

colonies attractive to settlers.

Conflict in the Ohio Valley As the colonies grew, settlers began to dream of

moving across the Appalachian Mountains and into the Ohio Valley—the region between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Both Great Britain

and France claimed this area. In 1754, the French made…a fort where the city of Pittsburgh stands today. They called it Fort Duquesne (du-KANE).

News of the fort alarmed the governor of Virginia. He ordered a small force of

Virginia militia to drive the French out of the Ohio Valley.  To head the militia, the governor chose a 22-year-old volunteer named George

Washington.

Today, Americans remember George Washington as a great Patriot, a military

hero, and the first president of the United States. In 1754, however, he was just an

ambitious young man with no land or money. Washington believed that his best

chance of getting ahead was to become an officer in the British army. There was only

one problem… British officers believed that colonists made terrible soldiers.

The expedition into the Ohio Valley gave Washington a chance to prove them

wrong. Near Fort Duquesne, he came across a French scouting party that was camped in the woods. Washington ordered his men to

open fire. It was an easy victory. “I heard the bullets whistle,” he wrote afterward. “And,

believe me, there is something charming in the sound.”

The French and Indian War Washington’s whistling bullets were the first shots in a

conflict, …[that] was part of a long struggle between France and Great Britain for territory and power. 

Because many American Indians fought with France in this latest conflict, the colonists called it the French

and Indian War.In 1755, Great Britain sent 1,400 British soldiers to Virginia

to finish the job that Washington had begun. They were led by a general named Edward Braddock. The soldiers’

job was to clear the French out of the Ohio Valley. Washington joined the army as a volunteer, hoping to

make a good impression on General Braddock. Braddock’s march into the Ohio Valley was a

disaster. The troops’ bright red uniforms made them perfect targets for French sharp-shooters and their Indian allies. Two-thirds of the soldiers were killed.

Washington himself narrowly escaped death. “I had four bullets through my Coat

and two horses shot under me,” he wrote in a letter. Showing great courage, Washington

led the survivors back to Virginia. There, he was greeted as a hero.

The French and Indian War raged for seven long years. The turning point came in 1759,

when British troops captured Canada. In 1763, Great Britain and France signed a peace treaty, or agreement, ending the

war. In this treaty, France ceded, or gave, Canada to Great Britain.

Americans were thrilled with this victory. Great Britain now controlled a

vastly expanded American empire. Never before had the colonists felt so proud of being British. And never before had the future of the colonies looked so bright.

Gre

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asks “W

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Do you know what's worth fighting for?When it's not worth dying for?

Does it take your breath away and you feel yourself suffocating?Does the pain weigh out the pride?And you look for a place to hide?

Did someone break your heart inside,you're in ruinsOne, 21 Guns

Lay down your armsGive up the fight

One, 21 GunsThrow up your arms into the sky

You and I ...When you're at the end of the road

And you lost all sense of controlAnd your thoughts have taken their toll

When your mind breaks the spirit of your soulYour faith walks on broken glass and the hangover doesn't pass

Nothing's ever built to last, you're in ruinsChorus

Did you try to live on your own?When you burned down the house and home?

Did you stand too close to the fire?Like a liar looking for forgiveness from a stone

When it's time to live and let dieAnd you can't get another try

Something inside this heart has died, you're in ruinsChorus

Declaration of Independence Activity

Part I- The Breakup!

“When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to

dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to

assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God

entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel

them to the separation.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain

unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just

powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government

becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,

and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing

its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and

Happiness…

“Prudence, indeed, will dictate the Governments long established should not be changed for light and

transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer,

while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. –

Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter the former Systems of

Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the

establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a

candid world.”