Tag: causes of american revolution

• Teaching the Causes of the American Revolution

  

  Navigation Acts, Proclamation of 1763, Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Townshend Act, Boston Massacre, Tea Act, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts, Lexington & Concord. Does this timeline of events sound familiar? I was able to rattle these off- okay, type- these traditionally taught causes of the American Revolution very quickly, but I hate teaching them chronologically…

  CherylAnne Amendola

  January 12, 2024

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• History in the Kitchen: Colonial Tea & Little Cakes

  As American history teachers, particularly US I teachers, we always teach about a tax on tea. How often, though, do we question “Why tea?” How the world would a bunch of people in our present-day-coffee-drinking-American-society understand why *tea* of all things led to violent, destructive rioting. The backlash against taxation on tea and British control…

  CherylAnne Amendola

  August 24, 2020

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• Weighing the Pros & Cons of being part of the British Empire

  I was bored with the usual lessons about the Causes of the American Revolution. For many years when teaching the Causes, I’ve talked about taxes, taxes, taxes with a smattering of protest and violence, and an ultimate break from the British Empire. I wanted to be more creative. I wanted my students to think about…

  CherylAnne Amendola

  January 12, 2020

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• Political Philosophy BEFORE the Revolution

  

  In reading text books over the years, I’ve noticed that many mention that the colonists sought the “British rights” to which they were entitled as a cause of the American Revolution. Among other things, taxation without representation angered them and they were incensed by the Crown denying them trial by jury. However, in these same…

  CherylAnne Amendola

  December 10, 2019

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