Today's Agenda

AP Learning Objective: 
Explain how British colonial policies regarding North America led to the Revolutionary War.
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Learning Target:
I can summarize the social, political, and economic factors that drove the American colonies to independence. 

Critical Vocabulary: King George III, Albany Plan of Union, Treaty of Paris, Proclamation of 1763, Writs of Assistance, Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Quartering Act, Stamp Act Congress, Sons of Liberty, Declaratory Act, Townshend Acts, Circular Letter, Boston Massacre, Captain Thomas Preston, Crispus Attucks, Gaspee, British East India Tea Company, Tea Act, Boston Tea Party, Coercive Acts, Quebec Act, Intolerable Acts, First Continental Congress, Second Continental Congress, Lexington and Concord, Continental Army, George Washington, Olive Branch Petition, Hessian, Thomas Paine, Common Sense, Thomas Jefferson
 
Today's Agenda:

1. Background Question: What role did Paul Revere play in the Boston Massacre and its aftermath?
2. Citizenship Question: Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? 
   A. James Madison 
   B. Abraham Lincoln 
   C. Thomas Jefferson 
   D. George Washington
3. Independent Learning: Crash Course U.S. History (Watch by Wednesday)
4. Independent Learning: The Road to the Revolution Sketch Notes
5. Reflection Question: What role did John Adams play in the Boston Massacre and its aftermath?

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Homework: Revolutionary America Reading