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OBJECTIVE: 1. Students will 2. determine why colonists to declared themselves independent from Great Britain 3. orally 4. in a class presentation.

ATTACK ON KING GEORGE III

Veto power

Limited migration Hessians

Limited powers of governors

Proclamation of 1763 Hired professional German soldiers

ATTACK ON PARLIAMENT

Quartering Acts Trials in Britain Navigation Acts Closing ports in Boston Stamp Act Townshend Acts No town meetings Declaratory Act Domestic problems and Indian problems Petitioned for redress

ATTACKS ON BRITISH PEOPLE

(you) have been deaf to the Voice of Justice

Boston Massacre

we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace, Friends

United States of America

that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independence states

Cut all ties with Britain

WE MUTUALLY PLEDGE TO EACH OTHER OUR LIVES, OUR FORTUNES, AND OUR SACRED HONOUR

Absolved from allegiance to Crown Full power (to colonies) to levy war, conclude peace, etc

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. (http://www.ushistory.org/d ocuments/constitution.htm)

The Constitution is the highest law in the United States. All other laws come from the Constitution. It says how the government works. It creates the Presidency. It creates the Congress. It creates the Supreme Court. Each state also has a constitution. The constitutions of the states are their highest law for that state but the United States Constitution is higher. The Constitution can be changed. The Constitution is changed by an "amendment." Among the amendments is a list of the rights of the people. By listing these rights, they are made special. It is illegal for the government to violate those rights.

1. http://www.usconstitution.net/const kids4.html 2. http://www.ushistory.org/document s/constitution.htm 3. http://www.ushistory.org/declaratio n/document/ 4. http://www.historyplace.com/united states/revolution/revwar-77.htm 5. http://www.ushistory.org/declaratio n/related/quartering.htm 6 http://www.ushistory.org/us/13a.as p

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