Getting Started
Unit 1: Before Columbus
Unit 2: The Explorers
Unit 3: The Spanish Empire
Unit 4: The French and the English
Unit 5: The North and the South
Unit 6: Mid-Atlantic Colonists & Natives
Unit 7: The Colonial Experience
Unit 8: European Rivalries
Unit 9: Revolution
Unit 10: Constitutions

9.1 – Declarations of Independence

Declarations of Independence

Unit 9, Session 1

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Objectives

After this session you will be able to:

  • make judgments about the causes and effects of the Intolerable Acts
  • explain and characterize the nature and extent of colonial collaboration and congress
  • define and give examples of rhetoric and logic

9.1 Audio – Declarations of Independence

9.1 Timeline – Declarations of Independence

Coercive Acts passed
Thomas Gage enters Boston
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Siege of Boston begins
Common Sense published
Joint Declaration of Independence
1774
Mar–Jun
May
1775
April
April
1776
January
July

Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776 – 1900 depiction of Franklin, Adams, and Jefferson drafting the Declaration

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