Draw a diagram encapsulating the causes of the American Revolution.
Get set to present the diagram on Monday.
Remember to quote.
The presentation will be graded for creativity, fluency, expression, and knowledge of content.
The American Revolution (1775-83) is also known as the American Revolutionary War and the U.S. War of Independence. The conflict arose from growing tensions between residents of Great Britain's 13 North American colonies and the colonial government, which represented the British crown. Skirmishes between British troops and colonial militiamen in Lexington and Concord in April 1775 kicked off the armed conflict, and by the following summer, the rebels were waging a full-scale war for their independence. France entered the American Revolution on the side of the colonists in 1778, turning what had essentially been a civil war into an international conflict. After French assistance helped the Continental Army force the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1779, the Americans had effectively won their independence, though fighting would not formally end until 1783.
Lead Up to the Revolutionary War For more than a decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775, tensions had been building between colonists and the British authorities. Attempts by the British government to raise revenue by taxing the colonies (notably the Stamp Act of 1765, the Townshend Tariffs of 1767 and the Tea Act of 1773) met with heated protest among many colonists, who resented their lack of representation in Parliament and demanded the same rights as other British subjects. Colonial resistance led to violence in 1770, when British soldiers opened fire on a mob of colonists, killing five men in what was known as the Boston Massacre. After December 1773, when a band of Bostonians dressed as Mohawk Indians boarded British ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor, an outraged Parliament passed a series of measures (known as the Intolerable, or Coercive Acts) designed to reassert imperial authority in Massachusetts.
In response, a group of colonial delegates (including George Washington of Virginia, John and Samuel Adams of Massachusetts, Patrick Henry of Virginia and John Jay of New York) met in Philadelphia in September 1774 to give voice to their grievances against the British crown. This First Continental Congress did not go so far as to demand independence from Britain, but it denounced taxation without representation, as well as the maintenance of the British army in the colonies without their consent, and issued a declaration of the rights due every citizen, including life, liberty, property, assembly and trial by jury. The Continental Congress voted to meet again in May 1775 to consider further action, but by that time violence had already broken out. On April 19, local militiamen (clashed with British soldiers in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, marking the first shots fired in the Revolutionary War.
I simply mean that you draw a graphic organizer on the paper I gave you guys on Friday to summarize the causes. You will have to explain in your own words the causes of the revolution when you are presenting. Nothing major just a simple graphic organizer. Be creative! And Jhonaton you have to manage your time. Remember we talked about that already.
Can never be since a graphic organizer mainly entails points rather than sentences. It is the oral presentation that requires some depth. The graphic organizer is merely the guide that should enable your presentation to be executed smoothly.
So what's all the paper for? Wouldn't the graphic organizer just go on one sheet? I would have preferred to do a graphic organizer on the computer but okay.
Feel free to do more than one graphic organizer to get across your point.It's up to you but the graphic organizer should be simple, not a lot of words.
So Miss Samuel i don't see the point in Quotes in a graphic organizer ok so more than one sheet is needed for a graphic organizer ok Ms Samuel though one paper could be used save the trees its better any agreement here
Yes Daveniel no quotes are necessary on the graphic organizer but what about the oral aspect? Would you be quoting? And yes we must save the trees. Remember it is quality not quantity!
(i) "Stamp Act" in Document II Document II …We can no longer forbear complaining that many of the measures of the late ministry, and some of the late Acts of Parliament, have a tendency, in our apprehension to divest us of our most essential rights and liberties. We shall confine ourselves, however, chiefly to the Act of Parliament, commonly called the Stamp Act, by which a very burthensome, and, in our opinion, unconstitutional tax, is to be laid upon us all…
Answer
The Stamp Act was an Act passed by the British Parliament in 1765. This Act was one of the George Grenville's ways to "raise colonial revenue". By the Stamp Act, taxes were imposed upon all printed documents which included newspapers, marriage licenses, wills and trivial items such as dice and playing cards. Sherman and Salisbury stated that this was "the most irritating commercial regulation" and Samuel Morrison entertains the notion that “the Stamp Act started the trouble that led to the American Revolution”. These reactions were reasonable because unlike most other taxes, the Stamp Act was direct and not only affected merchants but members of society all across the board due to it being levied on everyday items consumed by all.
ii) Question A Explain briefly the reference to “despotic administration” in Document IV.
Document IV Since the conclusion of the late war, we have been happy in considering you [Canadians] as fellow subjects, and from the commencement of the present plan for subjugating the continent, we have viewed you as fellow-suffers with us. As we were both entitled by the bounty of an indulgent creator to freedom, and being both devoured by the cruel edicts of a despotic administration, to common ruin, we perceived the fate of the protestant and catholic colonies to be strongly linked together, and therefore invited you to join with us in resolving to be free, and in rejecting, with disdain, the letters of slavery, however artfully polished. Answer The Despotic administration in Document IV refers to the British Crown in the form of King George II. They saw this administration according to the document as giving “cruel edicts” this was in the form of taxes which they saw as a way of slavery economically though “artfully polished”. Potent meaning is also rendered to the fact the taxes were coming as some might say ‘fast and furious’, and consecutively upon the colonist, from The Sugar Act of 1764 to The Town Shed Act of 1767 with two more Acts in between, namely The Currency Act of 1764 and The Stamp Act of 1765; undoubtedly this was economic torture for the pockets of the colonist. It is only fear to fathom why any right thinking member of society would attribute such a title to an administration; ‘despotic administration’.
(B)What justification is cited by the British Parliament in Document I for the passing of the Stamp Act?
Document I
WHEREAS by an Act made in the last session of [British] parliament, several duties were granted, continued, and appropriated, towards defraying the expenses of defending, protecting, and securing, the British colonies and plantations in America. And whereas it is just and necessary, that provisions be made for raising a further revenue within your majesty's dominions in America, towards defraying the said expenses...be it enacted...That from and after [November 1, 1765] there shall be raised, collected and paid into majesty...throughout the colonies and plantations in America. The Stamp Act, March 22, 1765
Answer
The justification argued by the British parliament for passing the Stamp Act was that After the Seven Years' War, the British economy was plummeting in debt. A huge national debt had been incurred in the course of fighting for the British Colonial Empire, which the U.S colonies were a part of. Samuel Morrison exacted that “British parliament usually repaid a good part of the colonies’ war expenditures”; however, according to Sherman and Salisbury (2001), "feeling that they had helped defend the American colonists against the hostile French and Indians, the British expected the colonists to help pay off the huge debt incurred in the fighting..." Britain and in particular, chief Minister George Grenville felt justified in imposing the Stamp Act as according to Historian Maldwyn A. Jones (1983), the cost for colonial administration and defense had risen from 70,000 to 350,000 and "it is necessary that provisions be made for raising further revenue within your majesty's dominions in America towards defraying the said expenses..."
c) With reference to document III comment on the nature of the displeasure by the colonist in Virginia at the passing of The Stamp Act
Document III
Resolved therefore, that the General Assembly of this Colony [Virginia] have the only and sole exclusive right and the power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this Colony, and that every attempt to vest such power in any person or persons whatsoever other that the General Assembly aforesaid has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom.
Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions May 30, 1765
Answer
Patrick Henry placed forward seven Virginia Resolutions in the House of Burgesses acclaiming that only the Virginia assembly can legally tax Virginia residents. He stated that "If this be treason, make the most of it." Furthermore, Colonists themselves in Virginia were highly displeased with the passing of the Stamp Act. The 13 American colonies all considered themselves British citizens, however, despite this; they had no representative in the British parliament to serve their interests. This led to the popular slogan "No Taxation without Representation". Only an assembly residing in America had the right to tax them since only that Assembly was representing them.
d) With reference to document II, give two reasons why the colonists in Massachusetts were opposed to the Stamp Act. Document II …We can no longer forbear complaining that many of the measures of the late ministry, and some of the late Acts of Parliament, have a tendency, in our apprehension to divest us of our most essential rights and liberties. We shall confine ourselves, however, chiefly to the Act of Parliament, commonly called the Stamp Act, by which a very burthensome, and, in our opinion, unconstitutional tax, is to be laid upon us all… Answer Two reasons why the colonist in Massachusetts were opposed to the Stamp Act (1765) with reference to Document II were because they were tired of complaining about all these sudden taxes that were implemented by the members of Parliament and said that they were divesting (stripping) them of most of their essential or everyday right and liberties, according to Sherman and Salisbury they pointed that the colonists claimed to have been “entitled to all the inherent rights and liberties of the King’s natural born subjects within the kingdom of Great Britain.” They also thought of the Stamp Act as being a burden to them which in their opinion, the Stamp Act was an unconstitutional tax that was being laid upon them which was stated by Sherman and Salisbury (2001) that the Stamp Act was arguably the most irritating commercial regulation, which taxed printed documents such as newspapers, pamphlets, wills, marriage licenses etc. This tax required Stamps on all of these documents. E) With reference to Document IV, what evidence is there to suggest the American colonists considered the Canadians to be “fellow subjects”?
Document IV Since the conclusion of the late war, we have been happy in considering you [Canadians] as fellow subjects, and from the commencement of the present plan for subjugating the continent, we have viewed you as fellow-suffers with us. As we were both entitled by the bounty of an indulgent creator to freedom, and being both devoured by the cruel edicts of a despotic administration, to common ruin, we perceived the fate of the protestant and catholic colonies to be strongly linked together, and therefore invited you to join with us in resolving to be free, and in rejecting, with disdain, the letters of slavery, however artfully polished.
Answer The Americans considered the Canadians to be “fellow Subjects” due to the fact that they were being ruled by one leader in the form of the British Crown. They purported according to the document that “we have viewed you as fellow-suffers with us,” this means they saw the ruling of King George III as being of drudgery and utter displeasure due to the excess taxes he allowed his chief minister to exert on them. Additionally, they believed that both themselves and the Canadians were entitled to be free of such ‘legal economic slavery ‘and thus they were linked by this suffering as “fellow subjects”
I must say I am very pleased with the responses but I would like everyone to be involved in the process next time. A few minor errors as we discussed in class but you are on the right track. By the way a special thank you to Daveniel for exhibiting exceptional creative skills during her presentation of the Causes. Next up the consequences of the American Revolution. But before we move on to the consequences just take a look at the American Declaration of Independence.
The American Revolution (1775-83) is also known as the American Revolutionary War and the U.S. War of Independence. The conflict arose from growing tensions between residents of Great Britain's 13 North American colonies and the colonial government, which represented the British crown. Skirmishes between British troops and colonial militiamen in Lexington and Concord in April 1775 kicked off the armed conflict, and by the following summer, the rebels were waging a full-scale war for their independence. France entered the American Revolution on the side of the colonists in 1778, turning what had essentially been a civil war into an international conflict. After French assistance helped the Continental Army force the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1779, the Americans had effectively won their independence, though fighting would not formally end until 1783.
ReplyDeleteLead Up to the Revolutionary War
ReplyDeleteFor more than a decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775, tensions had been building between colonists and the British authorities. Attempts by the British government to raise revenue by taxing the colonies (notably the Stamp Act of 1765, the Townshend Tariffs of 1767 and the Tea Act of 1773) met with heated protest among many colonists, who resented their lack of representation in Parliament and demanded the same rights as other British subjects. Colonial resistance led to violence in 1770, when British soldiers opened fire on a mob of colonists, killing five men in what was known as the Boston Massacre. After December 1773, when a band of Bostonians dressed as Mohawk Indians boarded British ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor, an outraged Parliament passed a series of measures (known as the Intolerable, or Coercive Acts) designed to reassert imperial authority in Massachusetts.
In response, a group of colonial delegates (including George Washington of Virginia, John and Samuel Adams of Massachusetts, Patrick Henry of Virginia and John Jay of New York) met in Philadelphia in September 1774 to give voice to their grievances against the British crown. This First Continental Congress did not go so far as to demand independence from Britain, but it denounced taxation without representation, as well as the maintenance of the British army in the colonies without their consent, and issued a declaration of the rights due every citizen, including life, liberty, property, assembly and trial by jury. The Continental Congress voted to meet again in May 1775 to consider further action, but by that time violence had already broken out. On April 19, local militiamen (clashed with British soldiers in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, marking the first shots fired in the Revolutionary War.
These notes were taken from the Internet. Also remember the other taxes. All the best!
ReplyDeleteMISS SAMUEL THIS IS FOR THIS MONDAY??????????
ReplyDeleteand when you say diagram what do u mean?
ReplyDeleteI simply mean that you draw a graphic organizer on the paper I gave you guys on Friday to summarize the causes. You will have to explain in your own words the causes of the revolution when you are presenting.
ReplyDeleteNothing major just a simple graphic organizer. Be creative! And Jhonaton you have to manage your time. Remember we talked about that already.
Miss Samuel you making this sound like an essay diagram we doing
ReplyDeleteCan never be since a graphic organizer mainly entails points rather than sentences. It is the oral presentation that requires some depth. The graphic organizer is merely the guide that should enable your presentation to be executed smoothly.
ReplyDeleteSo what's all the paper for? Wouldn't the graphic organizer just go on one sheet? I would have preferred to do a graphic organizer on the computer but okay.
ReplyDeleteRemember you are presenting so the visual must be large enough.
ReplyDeleteOh alright then.
ReplyDeleteSo the graphic organizer goes on one sheet or we have to stick all of the sheets together?
ReplyDeleteFeel free to do more than one graphic organizer to get across your point.It's up to you but the graphic organizer should be simple, not a lot of words.
ReplyDeleteAlright thanks
ReplyDeletep.s i love the heading photo miss samuel..... not bad :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks Jhonaton....I see you have great taste!
ReplyDeleteBy the way don't you guys have pictures you can use to make the blog more informal? I am tired of seeing B.
ReplyDeleteSo Miss Samuel i don't see the point in Quotes in a graphic organizer ok so more than one sheet is needed for a graphic organizer ok Ms Samuel though one paper could be used save the trees its better any agreement here
ReplyDeleteYes Daveniel no quotes are necessary on the graphic organizer but what about the oral aspect? Would you be quoting? And yes we must save the trees. Remember it is quality not quantity!
ReplyDeleteMs. Samuel is unable to respond due to poor connection.
ReplyDeleteWELL MS. SAMUEL ITS DUE TO "POOR CONNECTION" WHY YOUR GETTING THIS ASSIGNMENT LATE.
ReplyDeleteA) Explain briefly the reference to:
ReplyDelete(i) "Stamp Act" in Document II
Document II
…We can no longer forbear complaining that many of the measures of the late ministry, and some of the late Acts of Parliament, have a tendency, in our apprehension to divest us of our most essential rights and liberties. We shall confine ourselves, however, chiefly to the Act of Parliament, commonly called the Stamp Act, by which a very burthensome, and, in our opinion, unconstitutional tax, is to be laid upon us all…
Answer
The Stamp Act was an Act passed by the British Parliament in 1765. This Act was one of the George Grenville's ways to "raise colonial revenue". By the Stamp Act, taxes were imposed upon all printed documents which included newspapers, marriage licenses, wills and trivial items such as dice and playing cards. Sherman and Salisbury stated that this was "the most irritating commercial regulation" and Samuel Morrison entertains the notion that “the Stamp Act started the trouble that led to the American Revolution”. These reactions were reasonable because unlike most other taxes, the Stamp Act was direct and not only affected merchants but members of society all across the board due to it being levied on everyday items consumed by all.
ii) Question A
Explain briefly the reference to “despotic administration” in Document IV.
Document IV
Since the conclusion of the late war, we have been happy in considering you [Canadians] as fellow subjects, and from the commencement of the present plan for subjugating the continent, we have viewed you as fellow-suffers with us. As we were both entitled by the bounty of an indulgent creator to freedom, and being both devoured by the cruel edicts of a despotic administration, to common ruin, we perceived the fate of the protestant and catholic colonies to be strongly linked together, and therefore invited you to join with us in resolving to be free, and in rejecting, with disdain, the letters of slavery, however artfully polished.
Answer
The Despotic administration in Document IV refers to the British Crown in the form of King George II. They saw this administration according to the document as giving “cruel edicts” this was in the form of taxes which they saw as a way of slavery economically though “artfully polished”. Potent meaning is also rendered to the fact the taxes were coming as some might say ‘fast and furious’, and consecutively upon the colonist, from The Sugar Act of 1764 to The Town Shed Act of 1767 with two more Acts in between, namely The Currency Act of 1764 and The Stamp Act of 1765; undoubtedly this was economic torture for the pockets of the colonist. It is only fear to fathom why any right thinking member of society would attribute such a title to an administration; ‘despotic administration’.
(B)What justification is cited by the British Parliament in Document I for the passing of the Stamp Act?
ReplyDeleteDocument I
WHEREAS by an Act made in the last session of [British] parliament, several duties were granted, continued, and appropriated, towards defraying the expenses of defending, protecting, and securing, the British colonies and plantations in America. And whereas it is just and necessary, that provisions be made for raising a further revenue within your majesty's dominions in America, towards defraying the said expenses...be it enacted...That from and after [November 1, 1765] there shall be raised, collected and paid into majesty...throughout the colonies and plantations in America.
The Stamp Act, March 22, 1765
Answer
The justification argued by the British parliament for passing the Stamp Act was that After the Seven Years' War, the British economy was plummeting in debt. A huge national debt had been incurred in the course of fighting for the British Colonial Empire, which the U.S colonies were a part of. Samuel Morrison exacted that “British parliament usually repaid a good part of the colonies’ war expenditures”; however, according to Sherman and Salisbury (2001), "feeling that they had helped defend the American colonists against the hostile French and Indians, the British expected the colonists to help pay off the huge debt incurred in the fighting..." Britain and in particular, chief Minister George Grenville felt justified in imposing the Stamp Act as according to Historian Maldwyn A. Jones (1983), the cost for colonial administration and defense had risen from 70,000 to 350,000 and "it is necessary that provisions be made for raising further revenue within your majesty's dominions in America towards defraying the said expenses..."
c) With reference to document III comment on the nature of the displeasure by the colonist in Virginia at the passing of The Stamp Act
ReplyDeleteDocument III
Resolved therefore, that the General Assembly of this Colony [Virginia] have the only and sole exclusive right and the power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this Colony, and that every attempt to vest such power in any person or persons whatsoever other that the General Assembly aforesaid has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom.
Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions May 30, 1765
Answer
Patrick Henry placed forward seven Virginia Resolutions in the House of Burgesses acclaiming that only the Virginia assembly can legally tax Virginia residents. He stated that "If this be treason, make the most of it." Furthermore, Colonists themselves in Virginia were highly displeased with the passing of the Stamp Act. The 13 American colonies all considered themselves British citizens, however, despite this; they had no representative in the British parliament to serve their interests. This led to the popular slogan "No Taxation without Representation". Only an assembly residing in America had the right to tax them since only that Assembly was representing them.
d) With reference to document II, give two reasons why the colonists in Massachusetts were opposed to the Stamp Act.
ReplyDeleteDocument II
…We can no longer forbear complaining that many of the measures of the late ministry, and some of the late Acts of Parliament, have a tendency, in our apprehension to divest us of our most essential rights and liberties. We shall confine ourselves, however, chiefly to the Act of Parliament, commonly called the Stamp Act, by which a very burthensome, and, in our opinion, unconstitutional tax, is to be laid upon us all…
Answer
Two reasons why the colonist in Massachusetts were opposed to the Stamp Act (1765) with reference to Document II were because they were tired of complaining about all these sudden taxes that were implemented by the members of Parliament and said that they were divesting (stripping) them of most of their essential or everyday right and liberties, according to Sherman and Salisbury they pointed that the colonists claimed to have been “entitled to all the inherent rights and liberties of the King’s natural born subjects within the kingdom of Great Britain.” They also thought of the Stamp Act as being a burden to them which in their opinion, the Stamp Act was an unconstitutional tax that was being laid upon them which was stated by Sherman and Salisbury (2001) that the Stamp Act was arguably the most irritating commercial regulation, which taxed printed documents such as newspapers, pamphlets, wills, marriage licenses etc. This tax required Stamps on all of these documents.
E) With reference to Document IV, what evidence is there to suggest the American colonists considered the Canadians to be “fellow subjects”?
Document IV
Since the conclusion of the late war, we have been happy in considering you [Canadians] as fellow subjects, and from the commencement of the present plan for subjugating the continent, we have viewed you as fellow-suffers with us. As we were both entitled by the bounty of an indulgent creator to freedom, and being both devoured by the cruel edicts of a despotic administration, to common ruin, we perceived the fate of the protestant and catholic colonies to be strongly linked together, and therefore invited you to join with us in resolving to be free, and in rejecting, with disdain, the letters of slavery, however artfully polished.
Answer
The Americans considered the Canadians to be “fellow Subjects” due to the fact that they were being ruled by one leader in the form of the British Crown. They purported according to the document that “we have viewed you as fellow-suffers with us,” this means they saw the ruling of King George III as being of drudgery and utter displeasure due to the excess taxes he allowed his chief minister to exert on them. Additionally, they believed that both themselves and the Canadians were entitled to be free of such ‘legal economic slavery ‘and thus they were linked by this suffering as “fellow subjects”
I must say I am very pleased with the responses but I would like everyone to be involved in the process next time. A few minor errors as we discussed in class but you are on the right track. By the way a special thank you to Daveniel for exhibiting exceptional creative skills during her presentation of the Causes.
ReplyDeleteNext up the consequences of the American Revolution. But before we move on to the consequences just take a look at the American Declaration of Independence.