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

I. 1600 – 1700

II. 1700 – 1750

III. 1750 – 1770s

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• 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

I. 1600 – 1700a) European exploration, colonization and settlement

1. Jamestown

2. Massachusetts Bay

3. Plymouth Colony

4. Plymouth Colony

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I. 1600 – 1700b) 13 colonies get

settled1. New England

Colonies – Shipbuilding, fishing, lumber

2. Middle Colonies – Cattle and grain

3. Southern Colonies – tobacco, rice, indigo

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I. 1600 – 1700c) Colonial Life

1. Struggle at first

2. Things get better

3. Most colonists are living as farmers

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II. 1700 – 1750 a) 50,000

colonists 1 million+ colonists

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II. 1700 – 1750 a) 50,000 colonists 1 million+ colonists

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II. 1700 – 1750 b) Most colonists content/happy with British Rule over

them

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II. 1700 – 1750 c) Colonists always had a right to make own laws and

taxes

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III. 1750 – 1770sa) Relationship

between Britain and colonists changes

1. 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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III. 1750 – 1770sa) Relationship between Britain and colonists changes

2. 1754 – Benjamin Franklin proposes the Albany Plan of Union “Join or Die”

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III. 1750 – 1770sa) Relationship between Britain and colonists changes

3. 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to 7,500 men• 1764 – Sugar Act• 1765 – Stamp Act • 1765 – Quartering Act • 1767 – Townshend Acts • 1770 – All taxes repealed, except the one on tea.

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III. 1750 – 1770sa) Relationship between Britain and colonists changes

4. 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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III. 1750 – 1770sb) 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

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