Today's Agenda

Content Standards:
Students will analyze how history is a series of connected events shaped by multiple cause and effect relationships, tying past to present.
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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 two cities emerge as central to the American revolutionary cause? How do their roles differ?
2. Citizenship Question: Who is the "Father of Our Country"? 
   A. Abraham Lincoln 
   B. Thomas Jefferson 
   C. Benjamin Franklin 
   D. George Washington
3. ​Individual Learning: The Road to Revolution Activity
4. Reflection Question: Who was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence? From whom did he borrow many of his ideas?

Homework: Revolutionary America Reading