Files:

Assignment Sheet: Colonial America

Pageant Ch. 5 PPT: Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution

Pageant Ch. 6 PPT Notes: The Duel for North America

Video Questions: Benjamin Franklin

Ch. 6 Notes on French-Indian War (in class)

Pageant Ch. 7 PPT Notes: The Road to Revolution

Documents:

• Albany Plan for Union, 1754
• Stamp Act Congress Resolution, October 19, 1765
• William Pitt on the Stamp Act, January 14, 1766
• First Continental Congress, October 1774
• Second Continental Congress, Declaration on the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, July 6, 1775
• Thomas Paine, Common Sense, January 1776
• Thomas Jefferson, draft of the Declaration of Independence, June 1776
• The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
• Adam Smith, The Cost of Empire, from The Wealth of Nations, 1776
• The Articles of Confederation
• Thomas Jefferson to James Madison on Shay's Rebellion: "A little rebellion now and then is a good thing."
• The Constitution of the United States of America
• James Madison, Federalist #10

Clips:

Video clip: Benjamin Franklin

Video clip: French Colonization

Video clip: Road to Revolution

The Articles of Confederation

The Constitution

The Bill of Rights