The Declaration of Independence

Reminders:

• Magnet School applications are DUE Today!
• ​Current Event 2.6 is DUE on Monday, 12/7
• Geography Quiz 2.6 will be on Monday, 12/7
  

Opening Activity:

Directions: Read the paragraph. Then read the DOI break-up letter. When you're done, click on the link at the bottom and review MOD 1 of our new unit.

In the last unit, we outlined a whole bunch of issues that divided the colonies and the British Government. These issues came to a head, when war broke out between British Redcoats and Massachusetts Minutemen, at the Battles at Lexington and Concord. War had begun, but the colonies were still considered part of Great Britain. It wasn't until the delegates at the 2nd Continental Congress voted to declare independence, or break up with Great Britain, that the U.S. was officially born.

Click here and read the short paragraph in
MOD 1 Declaration of Independence.