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What role did the founding fathers play in the American

Revolution?

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I Do: 10-Minute Lecture: Causes of the

American RevolutionSummary
Causes

The Royal
Proclamation
of 1763

The Stamp Act

of 1765

Townshend
Acts & Boston
Massacre

Effects

I Do: 10-Minute Lecture: Causes of the

American RevolutionSummary
Causes

The Boston
Tea Party

The
Intolerable
Acts

The First
Continental
Congress

Effects

We Do: Developing a Google Slides Biography Report

George Washington

a. Find out who the person was.

b. Explain why you chose this person.
c. Explain why the person is historically special.
d. Explain his/her personal life, family, habits, etc.
e. Find at least twelve important and interesting facts.
f. Find pictures of your guest.

We Do: Developing a Google Slides Biography Report

George Washington
a. Find out who the person was.
Washington opposed the 1765 Stamp Act, the first direct tax on the colonies; he
began taking a leading role in the growing colonial resistance when protests
against the Townshend Acts. In May 1769, Washington introduced a proposal,
drafted by his friend George Mason, calling for Virginia to boycott English goods
until the Acts were repealed. Parliament repealed the Townshend Acts in 1770.
However, Washington regarded the passage of the Intolerable Acts in 1774 as
"an Invasion of our Rights and Privileges I think the Parliament of Great
Britain has no more right to put their hands in my pocket without my consent
than I have to put my hands into yours for money."

b. Explain why you chose this person.

c. Explain why the person is historically special.

We Do: Developing a Google Slides Biography Report

George Washington
a. Find out who the person was.

b. Explain why you chose this person.

I chose George Washington because he has been the colonist I have spent the
most amount of time studying and teaching my classes about during the past
month. He is an interesting biographical study seeing as he was one of the most
influential and vital Americans throughout his adult life; however, all I really
knew about him before teaching this were the basic tenets and stereotypes of
his life. Things like he had wooden teeth (his tooth history is actually quite
detailed and complicated), he was a Revolutionary hero (but during the French
and Indian War he kinda screwed up a lot), and the first president (only one
elected unanimously!).

c. Explain why the person is historically special.

d. Explain his/her personal life, family, habits, etc.
e. Find at least twelve important and interesting facts.
f. Find pictures of your guest.

We Do: Developing a Google Slides Biography Report

George Washington
a. Find out who the person was.
b. Explain why you chose this person.

c. Explain why the person is historically special.

George Washington was one of those people who always seemed to find
himself at momentous events in early American History. Born in 1732, he
became a major in the Virginia Militia by 1753 as a British officer in colonial
America. He served under the great General Braddock in the French and
Indian War, a conflict many consider the starting point of the American
Revolution. As one of the most influential landowners in Virginia between the
wars, he held important public and political sway in regards to rebellion. As
general in the Revolutionary War, he is heralded as a hero, a natural leader
who people can rally behind. His natural assumption as the first president of
the free world makes him arguably the most important American in history.

d. Explain his/her personal life, family, habits, etc.

e. Find at least twelve important and interesting facts.
f. Find pictures of your guest.

We Do: Developing a Google Slides Biography Report

George Washington

a. Find out who the person was.

b. Explain why you chose this person.
c. Explain why the person is historically special.

d. Explain his/her personal life, family, habits, etc.

Washington was one of seven matured children from his parents. He was a
second generation American, whose father died when he was 11 years old. His
older half-brother Lawrence was his main guiding figure through the next 9
years. Lawrence had been a powerful military leader, and Washington
followed in his footsteps. He married Martha when he was 27 and she was 28.
They had no children, and Martha Washington often ran their plantation
while George Washington was serving in the military or other affairs. He had
tooth problems throughout the majority of his life, having false teeth made
from ivory to actual human teeth and everything in between. It is said that he
rarely spoke because of the pain he felt in his mouth, and historians wonder
how his role may have been increased or diminished by this character trait.

e. Find at least twelve important and interesting facts.

f. Find pictures of your guest.

We Do: Developing a Google Slides Biography Report

George Washington

a. Find out who the person was.

b. Explain why you chose this person.
c. Explain why the person is historically special.
d. Explain his/her personal life, family, habits, etc.

e. Find at least twelve important and interesting facts.

1. HE DIDN'T HAVE A MIDDLE NAME.

2. HE WAS NOT BORN ON FEBRUARY 22, 1732.
Washington was actually born on February 11, 1731,
3. HE WAS MADE AN HONORARY CITIZEN OF FRANCE.
4. NOBODY WILL EVER RANK HIGHER THAN HIM IN THE U.S. MILITARY.
5. According to the Christian Science Monitor, in 1789, his presidential salary
was 2 percent of the total U.S. budget.
6. HE MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE DIED AS A RESULT OF MEDICAL
MALPRACTICE.
7. HE WAS NOT VERY RELIGIOUS.
8. HE NEVER CHOPPED DOWN THAT CHERRY TREE
9. HE WAS AN INVETERATE LETTER-WRITER.
10. BEFORE FIGHTING THE BRITISH, HE FOUGHT FOR THE BRITISH.
11. HE LOST MORE BATTLES THAN HE WON.
12. HE IS THE ONLY PRESIDENT TO ACTUALLY GO INTO BATTLE WHILE
SERVING AS PRESIDENT.

f. Find pictures of your guest.

We Do: Developing a Google Slides Biography Report

George Washington

a. Find out who the person was.

b. Explain why you chose this person.
c. Explain why the person is historically special.
d. Explain his/her personal life, family, habits, etc.
e. Find at least twelve important and interesting facts.

f. Find pictures of your guest.

You Do: Developing a Google Slides Biography

Report: Founding Fathers
Step 1: Read and Review the Revolutionary Replica
Biographies and choose ONE person to research.
Step 2: Let Mr. Lawson know who your person is so he can
make sure there are no duplicates.
Step 3: Research Guidelines:

a. Find out who the person was.

b. Explain why you chose this person.
c. Explain why the person is historically special.
d. Explain his/her personal life, family, habits, etc.
e. Find at least twelve important and interesting facts.
f. Find pictures of your guest.

Closing/Exit Ticket
Go to my Google Classroom to access and complete the
quiz
Rank the six main direct causes of the American
Revolution in order of importance to causing the start
of the War.