U.S. HistoryThursday, Aug. 22

Pick up a Blue U.S. History Book and turn to page 25

***Answer the Map Skills question on 25 and the Reading Check on page 26 – that means you will need to read

You are on a time limit – 10 mins.***

Unit 2: Creating a Nation•I can. . .

a. Evaluate the influence of Enlightenment ideas on the development of American government as embedded in the Declaration of Independence

b. Identify and evaluate the ideas and events that contributed to the outbreak of the American Revolution, and determine the key turning points of the war

c. Identify the impetus for the Constitutional Convention (limitations of government under the Articles of Confederation), and analyze the events and outcomes of the Convention (i.e. the “bundle of compromises”)

d. Interpret the ideas and principles expressed in the U.S. Constitution

e. Explain the development of the Bill of Rights, and assess various debates of the day

f. Evaluate, take, and defend positions on the development of U.S. foreign policy during the early nineteenth century (e.g. Embargo Act, Monroe Doctrine)

Colonists Move West in the early-to-mid 1700s

• Causes– Population of colonies

increases quickly due to high birth rate and immigration

– Colonists begin to feel crowded

– Many colonists lack enough fertile land for growing population

• Effects– Settlers take over Native

American lands– Native Americans forced

onto land already occupied by other tribes

– British build trading posts in areas claimed by France

– France responds by preparing for conflict

I can. . .a. Evaluate the influence of Enlightenment ideas on

the development of American government as embedded in the Declaration of Independence

b. Identify and evaluate the ideas and events that contributed to the outbreak of the American Revolution, and determine the key turning points of the war

c. Identify the impetus for the Constitutional Convention (limitations of government under the Articles of Confederation), and analyze the events and outcomes of the Convention (i.e. the “bundle of compromises”)

• Stamp Act • Townsend Act• Boston Massacre• Tea Act• Intolerable Acts• Battles of Lexington and Concord

Townsend Act• http://education-portal.com/academy/

lesson/boston-massacre-colonists-and-the-declaratory-and-townshend-acts.html

Boston Massacre, 1770

• http://www.hippocampus.org/HippoCampus/History%20%26%20Government;jsessionid=9A58C00705EDDD30282A8004309013C1

Tea Act (1773) and the Boston Tea Party

• http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/the-boston-tea-party-intolerable-acts-first-continental-congress.html

• http://www.hippocampus.org/HippoCampus/History%20%26%20Government;jsessionid=9A58C00705EDDD30282A8004309013C1

The Tea Act, 1773• To save the East India Company from financial ruin• This act eliminated all remaining import duties on

tea entering England and thus lowering the selling price to consumers

• The company could also sell its tea directly to the people

• Both of these actions lowered tea below the cost of smuggled tea

• The colonists didn’t care about the price; it was the principle of taxation without representation

• This law would corrupt Americans into accepting the principle of parliamentary taxation by taking advantage of their weakness for a frivolous luxury

• Dec. 1773, the Boston Tea Party– 50 disguised men (plus others)

dump forty-five tons of tea overboard

Coercive (or Intolerable) Acts

First Continental Congress, 1774• http://

www.hippocampus.org/HippoCampus/History%20%26%20Government;jsessionid=9A58C00705EDDD30282A8004309013C1

• http://www.hippocampus.org/HippoCampus/History%20%26%20Government;jsessionid=9A58C00705EDDD30282A8004309013C1

First Continental Congress• Because of the Intolerable Acts• Suffolk Resolves was the first action:

colonies owed no obedience to any of the Coercive Acts; provisional govt. should collect all taxes until the former Mass. Charter was restored; defensive measures should be taken

• Voted to boycott all British goods and cease exporting almost all goods to Britain

• Not all delegates supported this plan• They settled on a Petition that stated the

following:– Affirmed Parliament’s power to regulate trade

– thus indicating they respect elected assemblies, but only if they have a voice

– Also stated that all previous paramilitary efforts to impose taxes, enforce laws through admiralty courts, suspend assemblies, and unilaterally revoke charters were unconstitutional• Bad Britain!

• Lexington and Concord – It’s on!– http://

education-portal.com/academy/lesson/lexington-concord-and-bunker-hill-the-american-revolution-begins.html

• Advantages and Disadvantages between the Colonists and The Crown– http://

www.hippocampus.org/HippoCampus/History%20%26%20Government;jsessionid=9A58C00705EDDD30282A8004309013C1

– http://www.hippocampus.org/HippoCampus/History%20%26%20Government;jsessionid=9A58C00705EDDD30282A8004309013C1

• Thomas Paine and Common Sense– http://education-portal.com/ac

ademy/lesson/the-second-continental-congress-and-thomas-paines-common-sense.html

• Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence– http://education-portal.com/academy/l

esson/the-declaration-of-independence-text-signers-and-legacy.html

• Major Battles during the war– http://www.hippocampus.org/HippoCamp

us/History%20%26%20Government;jsessionid=9A58C00705EDDD30282A8004309013C1

• Treaty of Paris– http://

www.hippocampus.org/HippoCampus/History%20%26%20Government;jsessionid=9A58C00705EDDD30282A8004309013C1

• Impact of the War– http://education-portal.com/academy/less

on/american-revolution-social-and-economic-impact.html

• Articles of Confederation– http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/th

e-articles-of-confederation-and-the-northwest-ordinance.html

• Land Ordinances– http://www.hippocampus.org/HippoCampus/His

tory%20%26%20Government;jsessionid=07E3F937E1052531A4A2473E4B4E7196

• Shay’s Rebellion– http://

www.hippocampus.org/HippoCampus/History%20%26%20Government;jsessionid=07E3F937E1052531A4A2473E4B4E7196

– http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/weaknesses-of-the-articles-of-confederation-and-shays-rebellion.html

Need to Know!• Terms

– Enlightenment– French and Indian War– Proclamation Line of

1763– 1st and 2nd Continental

Congress– Articles of Confederation– Northwest Ordinances– Shays' Rebellion– Marbury v. Madison– Federalism

• Helpful Vocabulary– Metaphor– Impervious– Synthesis– Condemnation– Eviction– Abolition– Redress– Barrage– Provocation– Indiscriminate– Hyperbole– Ratification– Carnage– Envoy– Expound