2. Objective:
How did African
Americans begin
to claim citizenship
in the new United
States? * Students
will analyze text
and charts in order
to be able to
answer this
question
3. Homework:
Create a
bumper sticker
designed to
recruit African
Americans into
either the British
or Colonial Army
4. Vocabulary:
The Enlightenment
Everything can be
explained
Think Mr. Spock in
Star Trek
There’s a
reasonable
explanation for
everything
5. “All Men Are Created Equal”
The first chance to
prove this is the
decision of who to
let into the Colonial
Army
Do you let Africans
in?
Does letting them in
make them patriots?
6. Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation
In 1775, the
Governor of
colonial Virginia
offered
freedom to any
slave who
fought for the
British
7. Salem Poor
Remember him?
In order to get
African
Americans to
fight for
them, each side
offers freedom