Saturday, April 9, 2016

History for April 11-15, 2016

We will continue to research events in history leading to the Revolutionary War.  Children will begin to memorize some poems and parts of some of the greatest speeches made by our fore fathers.  Children need to know about
                      -The Great Awakening
                      -Proclamation Line of 1763
                      -Daniel Boone
                      -What is an American?
                      -Eliza Pinckney
                      -King John
                      -The Glorious Revolution
                      -The Ladder of Rights
                      -Stamp Act
                      -Mercantilism
                      -Boston Massacre
                     -Tom Paine's Common Sense
                     -Post Roads- Corduroy Road
                     -Liberty Tree
                     -Patrick Henry
                     -Patrick Henry's famous speech
                     -Redcoats
                     -First Continental Congress
                     -Patriots and Whigs
                     -Loyalists and Tories
                     -Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Dr. Samuel Prescott
                     -Ralph Waldo Emerson's Stanza
                     -Lexington and Concord
                     -Ft. Ticonderoga
                     -Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys
                     -Benedict Arnold
                     -Second Continental Congress
                     -George Washington
                     -Benjamin Franklin





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