Unit+Stories

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= ﻿ Unit Stories =

 Writing ‘unit stories’ is another beneficial way to construct deep understanding. In this exercise, students will craft a 1-2 page narrative account of every unit’s primary emphasis (like ‘the story of the Birth of American Identity’), integrating each concept/term/person in that section of the review guide in so doing. While time-consuming, there may be no better way to grapple with the relevance of the specific content in relation to the overarching themes.

**__ ﻿ Birth of American Identify __**
Your Task:

Using the page for your assigned group number, create your historical fiction story using the unit information below. Please remember to adhere to our Wiki Rules.

//__ Unit Essential Questions __//

o Why did once loyal British citizens rebel? § To what extent did unity exist among the American colonists at the outbreak of the revolution? § Who were “Americans”? o What “old world” ideas shaped/influenced American identity? § Enlightenment ideas § Political Theorists § Declaration of Independence o To what extent was the American Revolution revolutionary? o How did the Revolution unfold? § Why did the British lose? o Were the American colonists justified in rebelling against the British?

//__ Peoples, Terms & Events __//


 * // Bold Italicized //** words are Seminal Primary Documents for the [|Frameworks]

**//__ Colonial Society __//** Immigrants English cultural domination Self-government Religious toleration Social mobility Colonial families Established church Subsistence farming Cotton Mather Benjamin Franklin Colonial government Limited democracy

**//__ Steps Towards Revolution __//** French and Indian War Proclamation of 1763 Sugar Act 1764 Quartering Act 1765 Stamp Act 1765 Patrick Henry Stamp Act Congress Sons and Daughters of Liberty Declaratory Act 1766 Townshend Acts 1767 Boston Massacre Committees of Correspondence Tea Act 1773 Intolerable Acts Coercive Acts 1774 Boston Port Act Mass Government Act Quartering Act Quebec Act

**//__ Enlightenment Connections __//** Deism Rationalism John Locke Rousseau Montesquieu Hobbes

**//__ Revolution __//** Patrick Henry Sam Adams John Adams Ben Franklin Paul Revere Minutemen Lexington and Concord Bunker Hill 1st and 2nd Continental Congress Thomas Paine's **// Common Sense //** **// Declaration of Independence //** Thomas Jefferson Patriots/Loyalists George Washington Economic sanctions Reasons for British loss French involvement Saratoga Yorktown Results of War