American Revolution

The Declaration of Independence is one of the most important documents in American History. The basic ideas of the Declaration of Independence are still important today. This activity uses ideas that are important to learners/students and asks them to...

The Declaration of Independence is one of the most important documents in American History. The basic ideas of the Declaration of Independence are still important today. This activity uses ideas that are important to learners/students and asks them to...

This Power Point Game was created with the intention to use as a review for the American Revolution. FULLY EDITABLE with sound and graphics! This product includes the following: Bell-ringer and Exit-slip (written reflection) questions and...

Handout includes graphic organizer organizing the aspects of the Intolerable Acts and how they affected the American colonies. The following aspects of the Intolerable Acts are to be examined by students: Boston Harbor was closed until Boston...

It took eight years of bitter fighting for Americans to win their independence from England. Most U.S. history courses concentrate on the causes that led Americans to seek independence, and then move to the end of the conflict and the struggles of the...

Who actually warned the countryside on April 18, 1775 that “the Regulars were coming?” Generations of school children heard, and in many cases memorized, Wadsworth’s Poem The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere elevating this Boston...

This activity combines process and content allowing students to use the included thirty-two well-researched pages to create their own personal book about the colonial city of Philadelphia and its citizens as they struggled through the events of the...

Hear ye! Hear ye! Read all about it! This unit contains everything your students need to know about the coming of the American Revolution. The wealth of resources includes the following: A PowerPoint that guides students through the events that...

Hear ye! Hear ye! Read all about it! This resource is an excellent means of assessing students' understanding of events leading up to the American Revolution. As part of this project, students will work in groups to create their own newspaper based on...

Students will complete a graphic organizer based on the various acts passed by the British Parliament during the early and mid 1700s. These acts, adopted primarily in the years after the French and Indian War, were intended to raise revenue from among...

This PowerPoint presentation is wonderful for introducing students to the theories of WHY government is necessary and HOW government should work. After explaining the two extremes of government power (absolute versus mob rule), the presentation guides...

This resource consists of both a PowerPoint and a biography related to Thomas Paine and his pro-Revolutionary pamphlet Common Sense.   The PowerPoint provides students with an introduction to the arguments presented in Common Sense, with...