Social Studies 7th Grade

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Social Studies 7th Grade

• American Revolution

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1763-1774

• Major events that lead the 13 original colonies
  to declare their Independence from Great Britain.

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13 Original Colonies

• Georgia Connecticut
• South Carolina Massachusetts
• Virginia New York
• Maryland Rhode Island
• Delaware New Hampshire
• Pennsylvania North Carolina
• New Jersey

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Taxation without Representation

• Colonies were taxed without any say in Government
  decisions.
• The British placed taxes on common items such as
  newspapers, wills, playing cards, tea, paper and
  glass items.

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Boston Massacre

• The British were angry because British troops
  were in their town.
• The Colonists threw sticks and snowballs at the
  British troops.
• British troops fired into a crowd of Colonists
  killing 5 people. Among the dead was Cripus
  Attucks an African American.

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Propaganda

• Information designed to influence
  opinions-against the British.
• Samuel Adams put up posters describing the
  Boston Massacre as a slaughter of innocent
  Americans by the bloody redcoats.
• Paul Revere showed a picture of a British officer
  giving the order to open fire on an orderly crowd.

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Boston Tea Party

• Colonist dressed like Mohawk Indians to disguise
  themselves from the British.
• Colonists threw 342 chests of tea into the Boston
  Harbor in protest of the unfair tea trade
  agreement.

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Punishing Boston

• King George III of England was so angry at the
  Colonists that he closed the Boston Harbor
  preventing shipments of food and other necessary
  supplies needed by the Colonists.
• King George III made laws prohibiting town
  meetings and forced the Colonists to house
  British soldiers or face punishment.

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Daughters of Liberty

• Colonial women began organizing groups to support
  the boycott of British goods.
• They urged Americans to wear homemade clothes and
  produce other goods that would not profit the
  British.

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Civic Rights

• British Laws caused discontentment among the
  Colonists who believed that their civic rights
  were being denied.
• Basic rights such as freedom of religion, speech,
  press and assembly

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Assignment

• Which cause do you think was the most persuasive
  in motivating the Colonist to declare their
  Independence and Why?
• Boston Tea Party
• Taxation
• Boston Massacre
• Must be at least ½ page in length.