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- Objective: SWBAT explain British efforts to tax and increase controls over colonists after the French and Indian War and evaluate American reactions to these policies
- 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:
- What challenges did victory in the French and Indian War bring for the British?
- How did Great Britain tighten control over its North American territory?
- Why did the colonists oppose the new British policies?
- How did colonists respond to the new British policies?
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AGENDA
- INTRODUCTION --- Engage
- S1: The Cost of Victory
- S2: The British Tighten Control
- S3: No Taxation Without Representation
- S4: The Colonists Respond
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{ENGAGE} Britain vs. the Colonists
- What does this quotation mean to you? What wording would you use to restate its meaning?
- How do these words express the Founding Fathers' seriousness about declaring independence from Great Britain?
- Who can you think of in the news or in history who is or was willing to give up his or her life, fortune, and honor for a cause? Who were the people? What was that person's cause?
- What adjectives would you use to describe the Founding Fathers, who pledged to give up their lives, property, and honor, if necessary, for the cause of independence?
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S1: The Cost of Victory
What challenges did victory in the French and Indian War bring for the British?
- video: Britain Pays for the French and Indian War (3:34)
- discussion questions:
- Why did Britain’s victory in the French and Indian War present challenges?
- How did the British address these challenges?
- after reading S1, finish the Problem/Solution Chart (pg. 78)
- respond to the Focus Question (pg. 81)
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S2: The British Tighten Control
How did Great Britain tighten control over its North American territory?
- ROAD TO REVOLUTION SEQUENCING CHART (pg. 79-80)
- after reading S2, respond to the Focus Question (pg. 81)
- discussion questions:
- Why did Britain’s victory in the French and Indian War present challenges?
- How did the British address these challenges?
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S3: No Taxation Without Representation
Why did the colonists oppose the new British policies?
How did colonists respond to the new British policies?
- ROAD TO REVOLUTION SEQUENCING CHART (pg. 79-80)
- after reading S3 and S4, respond to the Focus Questions (pg. 81)
- discussion questions:
- How did the colonists protest?
- Do you think the British actions were reasonable? Explain your answer.
- How might tensions between the British and the colonists have been prevented?
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