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How the actions and legislation of the British monarch and Parliament after the French and Indian War led to the American Revolution and independence.
• How the Great Awakening impacted colonial religious, family and educational practices. • How and why the Great Awakening encouraged individualism and personal judgment, revivalism and religious tolerance. (Connections can be made to the eventual creation of the Bill of Rights which recognized basic individual rights) • To what extent self-government and English colonial policy led to conflict and a desire for independence by the colonists. • How and why the political relationship between the colonists and England changed after the French and Indian War. • How and why the economic relationship between Great Britain and its colonies changed after the French and Indian War. • How a series of European colonial wars between England, France and Spain, culminating with the French and Indian War, impacted British financial policy and the economic development of the British colonies. • How and to what extent various colonists protested British economic policies leading up to the American Revolution. • How and why colonists declared and gained independence from Great Britain (e.g., James Otis and The Rights of the British Colonists Asserted, John Dickinson and Letters of a Pennsylvania Farmer, Thomas Paine and Common Sense, Thomas Jefferson and The Declaration of Independence). (Inalienable rights) • How the American Revolution and independence from Great Britain impacted those who were patriots, loyalists or neutral in the cause. • To what extent the declaration and fulfillment of independence from Great Britain established freedoms and equality for the colonists. (Individual rights) • How and why the political relationship between the colonists and England changed after the French and Indian War. • How and why British attempts to exert control over its colonies after the French and Indian War led to violent, organized and successful resistance. • How and to what extent revolutionary spirit and independence influenced various cultural groups and defined for the first time what it meant to be an American. (Inalienable rights) • The importance of the central ideas of the natural rights philosophy in the creation of American constitutional government, e.g., that all persons have the right to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness just because they are human beings; that the major purpose of government is to protect those rights. • How, why and to what extent European enlightened philosophers and their writings, such as John Locke and the Two Treatises of Government, impacted the creation and development of the United States as a democratic republic. (Inalienable rights, make connections to rule of Law) • How British colonists began to express and share ideas about liberty and independence leading up to the American Revolution (e.g., John Dickinson, Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and Committees of Correspondence). (Inalienable rights) • How and why more strict colonial policies by the British government led to colonial discontent, opposition, protest and the American Revolution. • How and why Thomas Paine’s pamphlet, Common Sense, encouraged revolution and independence. (Inalienable rights) • How, why and to what extent European enlightened philosophers and their writings, such as John Locke and the Two Treatises of Government, impacted the creation and development of the United States. • The extent to which colonists had difficulty in financing and winning the American Revolution. • How and to what extent the American Revolution and independence transformed the cultures of the British colonies and defined for the first time what it meant to be an American. (Inalienable rights) • How the American Revolution split the British colonies into Patriots or Loyalists and the effect of that split on American society and the war. • How the advancement of printing technologies and the availability of popular literature, through pamphlets, newspapers and magazines, impacted American culture from the Revolution to the Civil War. ). How and why did the Loyalists oppose the war? Dramas Interview with James Otis Panel Discussion with members of Parliament & Colonists on following topics: Proclamation of 1763 Sugar Act Stamp Act Declaratory Act Townshend Acts salutary neglect Quartering Act Tea Act Boston Tea Party Coercive Acts English Bill of Rights/Rights as Englishmen Interview with Thomas Paine Interview with John Dickinson Interview with General Cornwallis on British Strategy in Revolution additional source for above Additional source for above Interview with George Washington on American strategy in Revolution additional source for above additional source for above Panel discussion with Loyalists, Native Americans, African Americans on their various roles in the American Revolution Interview with either Jonathan Edwards or George Whitfield. Panel Discussion with Important Enlightenment Thinkers: John Locke Mary Wolstonecraft Baron deMontesquieu Jean Jaques Rousseau John Stuart Mill source for above additional source for above Key Termssalutary neglect Proclamation of 1763 Sugar & Currency Acts Quartering Act Stamp Act nonimportation agreements Sons of Liberty Declaratory Act Jonathan Edwards George Whitfield Sinner in the hands of an angry God Great Awakening natural rights John Locke Enlightenment Declaration of Independence Townshend Acts Boston Massacre Tea Act Boston Tea Party Coercive Acts/Intolerable Acts First Continental Congress The Rights of the Britsh Colonists Asserted Letters of a Pennsylvania Farmer Common Sense Sam Adams Sons of Liberty Paul Revere Committees of Correspondence Tories/Loyalists (origin of term) Patriot/Rebel/Whig (origin of term) British strategies Washington's strategies Lexington & Concord minutemen militia Continental Army Valley Forge American Crisis Trenton/Crossing the Delaware Second Continental Congress Continental currency Saratoga George Washington Cornwallis Guilford Courthouse/Cowpens/Kings Mtn French assistance Yorktown Treaty of Paris 1783 aristocracy vs. meritocracy class mobility subjects vs. citizens Empire vs. republic Independence for a nation or a collection of states? |
Great Awakening: What Made George Whitefield so Popular?
Nathan Cole's Diary on seeing George Whitefield SHEG Lesson Plan on Great Awakening Documents for Above Who Wrote Doc B & why?What was it like to be alive at the time of Doc B? Why was George Whitefield so popular? Do you think Whitefield was dangerous, like Henchman claimed? Franklin calls Whitefield ‘benevolent’ and Henchman calls him ‘dangerous.’ Who do you trust more, Franklin or Henchman? Why? Worksheet packet 1 Worksheet packet 2 Guided Reading (battles) Rev War Puzzle (online w/solution) Rev War Puzzle (PDF) Boston Massacre HSI
handout for above Lexington & Concord HSI Society of Patriotic Women at Edenton, North Carolina [1774] (interpret British political cartoon) Video above is episode 3 of the excellent PBS Liberty! series which traces 1765 to making of Constitution. Start at 37:00 for Crossing of Delaware/Battle of Trenton
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