Starter: A Significant Omission…..
Read the omitted passage from the Declaration of Independence and answer the following questions:
To what is Jefferson referring?
Why do you think Congress removed this from the adopted draft?
He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its 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 … And he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he had deprived them, by murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.
The American Revolution: Crash Course US History
- Listen for the reasons! Why were the colonists frustrated?
WORK TIME during HONORS seminar
Read and annotate: “Re-examining the Revolution” by Ray Raphael
9.3 American Revolution Response Questions
Respond in your digital comp books to these prompts.
What major understandings about the American Revolution do you have now that you didn’t have before? Did anything in the video or the reading surprise or enlighten you?
John Green says, “If you are going to base your society on philosophy, you should try to found it on ideals that are as inclusive and humanistic as possible--because the people executing those ideals will never be ideal.” What does he mean by this? How does it relate to the founding of America?
Ray Raphael says, "We continue to see ourselves as David to prove we are not Goliath..." What does he mean by this? How does he see this as a result of mythologizing the study of history? Why should we care?
What does Raphael seem to be suggesting about the study of history? What does he want to “convince” his audience of?