- DO NOW: in your composition book, copy and annotate the lesson objective.
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- Objective: SWBAT analyze the role of the British colonies in a mercantilist economy, and consider the impact of the Navigation Acts on colonists and feelings of "revolutionary fervor."
- Standard: CA.HSS.8.1 - Students understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation and relate their significance to the development of American constitutional democracy.
- Essential Questions:
- How did democratic traditions emerge in the American colonies?
- How were Britain's American colonies governed?
- How did Britain hope to profit from its colonies?
- What were the causes of the French and Indian War?
AGENDA
- S2. Local Governments Rule
- How were Britain's American colonies governed?
- S3. The Navigation Acts
- How did Britain hope to profit from its colonies?
- S4. A European War on American Soil: 1754-1763
- What were the causes of the French and Indian War?
- How were Britain's American colonies governed?
- How did Britain hope to profit from its colonies?
- What were the causes of the French and Indian War?
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- Whole class discussion:
- What is democracy?
- What democratic traditions were established in Great Britain?
- What democratic traditions were established by the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights? How were the American colonists influenced by these documents?
- In what ways were government institutions created by the colonists democratic?
- What is democracy?
- What democratic traditions were established in Great Britain?
- What democratic traditions were established by the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights? How were the American colonists influenced by these documents?
- In what ways were government institutions created by the colonists democratic?
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S3. The Navigation Acts
- video --- Colonial Economy (2:45)
- DISCUSSION:
- mercantilism
- What was mercantilism?
- What were the central ideas of this system?
- Navigation Acts
- What were the Navigation Acts?
- What were the two purposes of these laws?
- after reading S3, begin the Cause/Event/Effect Graphic Organizer on pg. 71
- respond to the Focus Question (pg. 72)
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S4. A European War on American Soil: 1754-1763
What were the causes of the French and Indian War?
- video --- The French and Indian War (2:30)
- after reading S4, continue working on the Cause/Event/Effect Graphic Organizer on pg. 71
- respond to the Focus Question (pg. 72)
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S5. New Troubles on the Horizon: 1763
- What events led to Great Britain's victory in the French and Indian War?
- video --- The Collapse of New France (4:30)
- after reading S5, finish the Cause/Event/Effect Graphic Organizer on pg. 71
- respond to the Focus Question (pg. 72)
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