1. Friday October 7th, 2016 Learning Target;
I can explain 3 reasons why the Articles of Confederation did not work
Agenda;
Finish Road to Revolution
13 Card Games
Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
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Things to Remember;
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2. Divide your paper into Cause and Effect. Write down what’s underlined.
The Road to Revolution
Divide your paper into Cause and Effect. Write down what’s underlined.

3. “Taxation without Representation is Tyranny!”
Battle Cry of the Revolutionary War

4. Cause
Effect
French and Indian War (1754): The British and the colonists against the French and the Indians
British didn’t want to fight any more wars with the Indians.
They asked the colonists to stay on the east coast.
The Proclamation Act of 1763: Don’t move west of the Appalachian Mountains.
French and Indian War

5. French and Indian War French and Indian War Cause Effect #2:
Cost a lot of money. They wanted the colonists to pay for it. (This is reasonable, right? The British did fight this war for the colonists. So why were the colonists so upset? Because they didn’t have any representation in Parliament.)
Sugar Act (1764): Taxed luxury items like sugar, silk, and wine.
Stamp Act (1765): Taxed any and all paper goods (wills, playing cards). (Repealed in 1766.)
Townshend Act (1770): Taxed tea, glass, and paint. (Repealed in 1770, except for the tea tax.)
French and Indian War

6. Townshend Act Townshend Act Colonies boycott tea
Cause
Effect
Townshend Act
Colonies boycott tea
The British East India Tea Company has too much tea. They create the Tea Act (1773), which allows the British East India Tea Company to sell tea without having to pay taxes. This means that they can sell it for less than colonial tea. They run colonial merchants out of business.
Townshend Act

7. Boston Tea Party (1773)—Colonists dressed as Native Americans dump 342 boxes of tea into Boston Harbor.
Effect of the Effect
Boston Tea Party

8. Intolerable Acts (1773)--Shuts down Boston Harbor (the harbor of the day) until the colonists pay for the tea. The Brits also install the British military throughout Boston.
Effect of the Effect of the Effect
Intolerable Acts

9. 1st Continental Congress
Cause
Effect
All of the taxes, laws, and acts.
1st Continental Congress (1774)—Colonists begin to stockpile weapons in a place called Concord.
1st Continental Congress

10. British Soldiers March
British soldiers learn of this weapon stockpiling and march to Concord to confiscate it
Effect of the Effect
British Soldiers March

11. Paul Revere Rides Paul Revere warns the colonists
Minutemen intercept the British soldiers
Somebody fires a shot at Lexington
Called “The shot heard ‘round the world” at Lexington Green
British march onto Concord but are chased back to Boston
Effect of the Effect of the Effect
Paul Revere Rides

12. Schoolhouse Rocks/Crash Course Videos
Show The Shot Heard ‘Round the World and Fireworks
Fireworks and
The Shot Heard ‘Round the World
Schoolhouse Rocks/Crash Course Videos

13. Play your card game for 5-10 minutes
13 Card Games

14. Articles of Confederation
The FIRST Constitution of the
United States
Ratified 1781

15. The Supreme Law of the Land
CONSTITUTION
The Supreme Law of the Land
If the government was a game, the constitution would be the rules by which we play the game of government.
If the government was a house, the constitution would be the blueprint.
If the government was a textbook, the constitution would be ____________.
If the government was a prom dress, the constitution would be ____________.

16. Weaknesses of the Articles
Effects
No power to tax
No power to regulate business between states
No power to raise an army
To pass laws, 9 of 13 states had to approve (75%); 1 vote per state
To amend (change) the Articles, all 13 states had to approve
No president
No money
Every state had its own money system
Can’t protect the nation
Difficult to pass laws
VERY difficult to change the Articles
No leadership

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