1. Week 7 Toward Independence
Notes for today will cover:
Review of colonies
What is going on in colonies 1600s – 1770s
Colonists are going to start to want independence from Britain
1600 – 1700
1700 – 1750
1750 – 1770s
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2. Update Table of Contents
Pg. 26: Toward Independence Notes and Unit #2 Pre-Test, Exit Ticket
Pg. 27: Unit #2 KWL and Vocabulary
Pg. 28 Albany Plan of Union
Pg. 29: French and Indian War
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3. Week 7 Toward Independence
1600 – 1700
European exploration, colonization and settlement
Jamestown
Massachusetts Bay
Plymouth Colony
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4. Week 7 Toward Independence
1600 – 1700
13 colonies get settled
New England Colonies – Shipbuilding, fishing, lumber
Middle Colonies – Cattle and grain
Southern Colonies – tobacco, rice, indigo
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5. Week 7 Toward Independence
1600 – 1700
Colonial Life
Struggle at first
Things get better
Most colonists are living as farmers
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6. Week 7 Toward Independence
1700 – 1750
50,000 colonists  1 million+ colonists
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1700 – 1750
50,000 colonists  1 million+ colonists
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1700 – 1750
Most colonists content/happy with British Rule over them
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1700 – 1750
Colonists always had a right to make own laws and taxes
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10. Week 7 Toward Independence
1750 – 1770s
Relationship between Britain and colonists changes
French and Indian War occurs
Before 1753: As colonies grew, colonists wanted to move across the Appalachian mountains into the Ohio Valley
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11. Week 7 Toward Independence
1750 – 1770s
Relationship between Britain and colonists changes
1754 – Benjamin Franklin proposes the Albany Plan of Union “Join or Die”
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12. Week 7 Toward Independence
1750 – 1770s
Relationship between Britain and colonists changes
Wars cost money! To pay for the F&I war, British impose “unfair” taxes on colonists
1764 – British army in colonies expands to 7,500 men
1764 – Sugar Act
1765 – Stamp Act
1765 – Quartering Act
1767 – Townshend Acts
1770 – All taxes repealed, except the one on tea.
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13. Week 7 Toward Independence
1750 – 1770s
Relationship between Britain and colonists changes
Controversial events make British and colonists not trust each other anymore. Some colonists will start to protest.
1770 – Boston Massacre
1773 – Boston Tea Party
1774 – Intolerable Acts
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14. Week 7 Toward Independence
1750 – 1770s
Some colonists are going to pave the road to independence away from Britain
1774 – First Continental Congress
1775 – First shots of the American Revolution fired at Lexington and Concord
Week 7 Toward Independence