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A Hard C O RE History Investigation Examining the Grievances of the Declaration of independence Terms of Use This product was created by Joe Boggs and may not be copied or resold. You may not share this product with anyone other than your students. If your colleagues like what they see, please purchase multiple licenses for your school. Thank you again for purchasing the “ultimate break-up letter” lesson for your Hardcore Students! If you have any questions or concerns contact me at [email protected]. Teach hardcore! Name______________________ Class ___________ Date ______ Essential Question #1: how did the authors of the declaration of independence come up with the Grievances? Bell Ringer Here’s an activity that always hooks students into the antiquated wording of the Declaration of Independence. As soon as the bell rings, inform the class in a serious tone that you have found a note that someone left behind. Declare that it is your policy to read any note passed in class and will proceed to do so. At the end of letter, ask the class if they think you should expose the author. Then declare the author as the Thirteen Colonies! Here’s a video clip of how it works in action: http://bit.ly/PVhUmY I don’t know how to say it but its been rough these past eight months. We’ve been arguing for quite some time now and based on what you’ve said its clear that you have no respect for me. And I want this school year to go smoothly. That’s why I’ve decided it would be best if we broke up. I can no longer revolve my life around you and follow all of your controlling rules. It’s been going on for too long. Here’s a list of other things you did wrong if you can’t remember! 1) You had your immature friends constantly stalking me because you thought I was cheating on you, which couldn’t have been farther from the truth. 2) You did not allow me to see my friends because you thought they were a bad influence. 3) You tried to start fights between me and my friends. 4) You always made up stupid rules for me about where I could go and what I could do without even asking how I felt! 5) And the list could go on and on and on! I have asked you many times to stop your idiotic ways, but you never listened or cared. You probably should have; because you just lost the best girl you’ve ever had! Love, 13 Colonies Name______________________ Class ___________ Date ______ Essential Question #1: how did the authors of the declaration of independence come up with the Grievances? HardCORE History Art Gallery Activity In your groups of 3-4, you will be rotating every 3 minutes to a different art source hanging around the room. For each of the 6 Revolutionary era sources, fill out the chart information below. Sources Predict how this source What is one question you may relate to “breaking have about this source? up” with Great Britain. Source 1 Source 2 Source 3 Source 4 Source 5 Source 6 Source #1 Source #2 Source #3 Source #4 Source #5 Source #6 Name______________________ Class ___________ Date ______ Essential Question #1: how did the authors of the declaration of independence come up with the Grievances? In total, 56 representatives from 13 different colonies signed the Declaration of Independence. Although these men held differing views on a number of issues during the Revolutionary era, they shared some common ideas that influenced the list of grievances— or complaints—in the Declaration. First, they believed that their mother country, Great Britain, had been committing actions that were very harmful to American colonists for over a decade. Perhaps just as important, the vast majority of those who took part in the Continental Congress believed in the Enlightenment, a movement that emphasized the equality of all people and questioned the legitimacy of governments who abused the citizens they governed. Specific Enlightenment ideas such as the social contract and natural rights affected how many colonists viewed the recent actions of the British government. According to the social contract theory, governments only held legitimate power if the people they governed were being treated with fairness. If this social contract was broken, the citizens could justifiably their life savings were now justifiably overthrow their government. The penniless. The Stock Market Crash idea of natural rights held that all people signaled the beginning of the Great held God-given rights they were born with Depression. At its peak in 1933, the like the right to life, privacy, property, Great Depression led to the happiness and more. No government had the unemployment of about 14 million authority to strip these natural rights away people and the failure of half of the without good reason. For today’s banks in America. Not until the efforts investigation, we will be closely reading some of the New Deal and the fighting of of the grievances in the Declaration of Independence and determining how our WWII would America return to its Founding Fathers came to the conclusion it former prosperity. was best if the American Colonies and Great Britain “break up” forever. Name______________________ Class ___________ Date ______ Essential Question #1: how did the authors of the declaration of independence come up with the Grievances? HardCORE History Investigation Below are just 6 of the 28 grievances listed in Thomas Jefferson’s original draft of the Declaration of Independence. The final version of the DOI would remove grievance #28, making 27 (14) For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us. (16) For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world. (17) For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent. (24) He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. (27) He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions .. (28) He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation hither. Name______________________ Class ___________ Date ______ Essential Question #1: how did the authors of the declaration of independence come up with the Grievances? HardCORE History Investigation Below are just 6 of the 28 modified grievances listed in Thomas Jefferson’s original draft of the Declaration of Independence. The final version of the DOI would remove grievance #28. (14) For allowing large bodies of armed troops to live among us and in our houses. (16) For cutting off our commercial business and trade with all parts of the world. (17) For forcing us to pay taxes that we never agreed to. (24) The King’s troops have plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. (27) The King has caused trouble amongst us, and has recruited merciless Indian Savages, who are known for their cruel warfare against all, including the innocent, women and children of our country. (28) The King has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating the sacred rights of life and liberty in the cases of many Africans, capturing and carrying them into slavery, or by killing them due to the miserable conditions of the ships on which they are transported. Name______________________ Class ___________ Date ______ Essential Question #1: how did the authors of the declaration of independence come up with the Grievances? HardCORE History Investigation Pick any 3 of the 6 grievances we read together and fill out the chart below for those grievances you choose. How does this grievance reflect What historical source helps Social Contract or Natural Rights explain this grievance? How? ideas? Explain in at least two Explain in at least two complete complete sentences! sentences. Grievance # ______ (Write out grievance below) Grievance # ______ (Write out grievance below) Grievance # _______ (Write out grievance below) Name______________________ Class ___________ Date ______ Essential Question #1: how did the authors of the declaration of independence come up with the Grievances? Exit Ticket Answer the essential question above in at least five sentences. Do NOT use any of the worksheets or materials used in class today! Use your memory to answer the question! ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ Source #1 This 1770 print produced by Paul Revere depicts the Boston Massacre with a decidedly anti-