Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Purpose:
Significance:
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CAUSE EFFECT
British Action Definition Was it P.E.G. Colonial British
or S.? Reaction Reaction
Stamp Act
Stamp Act
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Directions: Students will work in groups to interpret the meaning of the political cartoon on page 271
which references the Albany Plan of Union and analyze Benjamin Franklin’s point of view. Please fill in
the information on the chart to help summarize information from the cartoon:
Subject
Symbols
and details
Message
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Directions: Students will recognize propaganda in Paul Revere’s engraving of the Boston Massacre on textbook pp. 284-285.
Identify the aim, or purpose, of the cartoon. Point out the subject and explain the point of view.
Identify those images on the cartoon that viewers might respond to emotionally and identify the emotions.
Think critically about the cartoon. What facts has the cartoon ignored?
Identify The cartoon portrays the redcoats as the aggressors and the colonists as innocent
Purpose unarmed victims.
Identify
Emotion
Think
Critically
Name:__________________________________ Homeroom:__________ Date:__________________
Directions: Read and discuss textbook pp. 284-285, 288-289, 290-291 record on your chart the following information on the these British
Actions:
Tea Act Boston Tea Party Intolerable Acts First Continental Colonists Form
Congress Minutemen
Cause
Significance
Key People
British Reaction
Effect
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Lexington & Concord The Second George Washington The Battle of Bunker Olive Branch Petition
Continental Congress named Commander in Hill
chief
Cause
Significance
Key People
British Reaction
Effect
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Directions: Students will create a graphic organizer to record the significance for each item listed using pp. 302-307.
Preamble
Colonial
Grievances
Articles of
Confederation
The War in the North
Directions: Read and discuss pages 315-319 in the textbook; after discussion please record your information about the following events on the
chart below:
Crossing the
Delaware
The Battle of
Saratoga
Winter at
Valley Forge
Benjamin
Franklin in
France
Carolina
Victory at
Yorktown
The Treaty of
Paris
The
Revolutionary
War
Directions: Students will refer to textbook pages 326-327 and create a chart to classify the terms of the Treaty of Paris
according to which side they favored. (Do not list terms that favor neither side)