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KWL Chart: Revolutionary War K – What you Know about the Revolutionary War W – What you want to know L – What you have learned (to be filled out at a later time)
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starter Read the statement below and agree or disagree and
explain why. In a democracy, individuals and groups have the right
to use any means to protest taxes and laws that they think are
unfair. KWL Chart: Revolutionary War
K What you Know about the Revolutionary War W What you want to know
L What you have learned (to be filled out at a later time) The
Revolutionary War Begins I. Tea Act British Taxed Tea
Sons of Liberty:group of colonists fighting British rule led by Sam
Adams Taxation without representation A. Boston Tea Party Colonists
dressed in Indian attire
Dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor Colonists supported
the rebels and they became heroes B. Intolerable Acts Passed by
Great Brit. To punish Boston
1) closed Boston port until tea was paid for 2) Not allowed to hold
town meetings 3) Royal officials charged with crimes in Mass. could
be tried in Great Britain 4) Tougher Quartering Act II. Other Acts
Townshend Acts Writs of assistance officials could search home for
smuggled goods w/o a search warrant Quartering Acts Tea Act
Intolerable Act Quebec Act Starter: When you hear the word
Massacre, what images come to your mind? III. Colonial Response A.
Boston Massacre Colonists were throwing snowballs at groups of
British soldiers Riot followed Soldiers fired into the crowd
killing 5 Soldiers got off with a light sentence Committees of
Correspondence spread the news of British injustices B. First
Continental Congress
Discuss their problems with the king NOT a lawmaking body
Declaration of Resolves loyalty to Britain but colonists were
British subjects as well Formed the Minutemen colonial soldiers
Lexington and Concord British General Gage wanted military supplies
in Concord Patriots were prepared Paul Revere William Dawes Samuel
Prescott Lexington Concord 70 minutemen were prepared
British and colonist met in Lexington The Shot Heard Round the
World British went there for military supplies 100s of minutemen
British retreated British lost Who won the Battle of Bunker Hill
look at the statistics below
British troops 2,200Am. Troops-3,200 G.B. losses Am losses- 441
Calculate the percentage of losses from the total number of troops
The British general said it was a dear bought victory In 2 to 3
sentences tell me what he meant by this. Battle for Boston Bunker
Hill and Breeds Hill looked over Boston Harbor British took both
hills but had 1054 deaths compared to 450 American Declaring
Independence
Section 2 I. 2nd Continental Congress
Attitudes still mixed on Loyalty to the crown Estab. Continental
Army George Washington General II. Olive Branch Petition
Colonist loyal to King George III and wanted to end the conflict
King rejected King sent Hessian mercenaries Hired soldiers from
Germany to defeat Americans Declaration of Independence III.The
People A. Patrick Henry Give me Liberty or Give me death
In both Continental Congresses Speaker in favor of Revolution
B.Thomas Paine Wrote Common Sense pamphlet asking for support for
Revolution Helped organize a mob into a movement IV. Declaration of
Independence
Written by Thomas Jefferson July 4 officiallyadopted the D.O.I.
Purpose:To gather support for Independence, and state King Georges
Wrong doings A. Reaction to Independence
Patriots: singing and rejoicing Loyalists (Tories) : those loyal to
England, scared and opposed the Declaration Women:A hope for more
political opportunity (Abigail Adams) Review Who were the
minutemen? What did the Quartering Act say?
What happened during the Boston Tea Party? What did British do
after the party? Who wrote the D.O.I.? Who wrote Common Sense?