COLONIAL/REVOLUTIONARY WAR PERIOD.

Events leading up to the war

Cause and Effect Flow Chart

Thomas Jefferson

Grid Map of a Colonial Village

Teacher Page

This set of activities were created by Dawn Wise/Barrington

Content Standards:

* Students will use information from a chartto create a timeline.

*Students will use a chart to organizeand identify causes and effects.

* Students will interpret a grid map.

*Students will provide a written explanation of the effect that the Louisiana Purchase had on

Missourians.

* Students will identify the two main contributions that Thomas Jefferson was

responsible for.

Instruct the students to use their journals

to create the timeline, flow chart , and to

respond in writing to all of the following activities and prompts.

EVENTS YEARS

Use this table tocreate a timeline entitled: “EventsLeading up to TheRevolutionary War.”

French andIndian War Ends

Stamp Act

TownshendActsBostonMassacre

Boston TeaParty

Intolerable Acts

1754

1765

1767

1770

1773

1774

Did you draw something like this?

Copy theflow chart.(click)

This causesthe coloniststo:

This causesParliament to: repeal the

Stamp Act.

TownshendActs are passed.

This causesthe coloniststo: boycott British goods.

British troops are sent to keep order.Colonists attack them.

This causes:Five colonists to bekilled in the BostonMassacre.

Parliamentpasses theStamp Act.

Complete the Cause and Effect Chart

Protest byburning stamps.

Read each effect. Fill in the causes.

BostonMassacre

While ThomasJefferson waspresident, hepurchased theregion of theUnited States

known then as Louisiana. How did this effectMissourians?

Previously,thisregion wasgoverned by France. The LouisianaPurchase madeMissouriansUnited States citizens.

Which of these documents was written byThomas Jefferson to announce to Englandand the world that the colonies were free

to govern themselves?A) The Missouri Compromise

B) The Mayflower Compact

C) The Louisiana Purchase

D) The Declaration of Independence

That’sCorrect!

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answer

SHOEMAKER

SCHOOL

MILL’s FARM

BARREL MAKER

BLACKSMITH

GENERAL STORE

WALDEN POND

A

B

C

1 2 3 4

Use thegrid map

to answerthese

questions:

Where isthe

Blacksmithlocated?

Where is the General

Storelocated?

Where isthe schoollocated?

B2 is thelocation of

_______?

Which placeoccupies

more thanone square?

Mill’s Farm !Give itslocation.

Give thelocation of

the Shoemaker.

ColonialVillage

WELL

MEETING HOUSE