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Essential Question:
How
is independence different than freedom?
Stemming Focus Questions:
A. How
consistent were the quests for freedom and the establishment of colonial
settlements? B. Why couldn’t
the British successfully reverse the tradition of neglect after the French and
Indian War? C. Were the
colonists justified in declaring independence from Great Britain? D. Was the
American War for Independence a revolution?
E. How was individualism both fostered and oppressed in the American colonies?
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Sources:
1º
Primary Documents: Mayflower
Compact
(1620) * Declaration
of Independence (1776) * Magna Carta (1215); Common
Law, Estates General A Model of Christian Charity (1629) Massachusetts
body of Liberties (1641) John Locke’s Treatises of Civil Government (1690) Suffolk Resolves
(1774) Virginia Statute
of Religious Freedom (1786) * Seminal Documents
2º Potential Secondary Sources: Mayflower, Philbrick, 2006 1776, McCullough, 2005
Key Terms:
conquistador,
indentured servant, Pilgrim, Puritan, Quaker, King Phillip’s War, mercantilism,
Parlaiment, Acts…, salutatory neglect, cash crop, chattel slavery (North and
South), Enlightenment, Great Awakening, French and Indian War, Boston Massacre,
committees of correspondence, Olive Branch Petition, “Common Sense”, Valley
Forge, Saratoga, Yorktown, Treaty of Paris…
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Probable Major Assessments:
A. Summer
Reading Test B. Quizzes and Quests C. In-Class Essay on Freedom and Independence D.
Take Home Outline: Choose from Focus Questions B-E E. Creative Annotated Timeline: “Significant Acts
toward
Independence” (1-3 people) F. Debate: Loyalists vs. Patriots “Should we stay or should we
go…” (banahnahnahna) G. DBQ: “Origins of
the Declaration of Independence” H.
Application Project:
Why do our founding documents deserve all of the protection and defense
they receive? Should they? -National Treasure
Key Historical Figures: - Columbus,
De Las Casas
- Cortes,
Ponce de Leon
- Smith,
Winthrop, Penn, Bacon
- Williams
and Hutchinson
- Franklin,
John Adams, Edwards,
- Olaudah
Equiano
- Washington,
Pitt,
- Charles
II, James II, William and Mary, King George III
- Grenville,
Townshend, Cornwallis,
- Crispus
Attucks, Sam Adams, Paul Revere, Hancock, Lafayette, Greene, Benedict
Arnold
- Paine,
Jefferson, Locke
- Abigail
Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Joseph Brant, Armistead
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