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2. OPENING
• Read the following excerpt from Patrick Henry’s
Speech.
• Prompt Question:
• Patrick Henry was trying to convince the colonists
that …
3. PATRICK HENRY
• No man thinks more highly than I
do of patriotism… For my own
part, I consider it as nothing less
than a question of freedom or
slavery… Has Great Britain any
enemy, in this quarter of the
world, to call for all this
accumulation of navies and
armies? No, sir, she has none.
They are meant for us; they can
be meant for no other. They are
sent over to bind and rivet upon
us those chains which the British
ministry have been so long
forging. And what have we to
oppose them? Shall we try
argument?
• The war is actually begun! … as
for me, give me liberty or give me
death!
4. OBJECTIVES
• SE: 8.4A Analyze the causes of the civil war.
Determine the impact of Lexington and Concord.
• 8.4B Analyze the impact of Patrick Henry and
Thomas Paine
• LO: Students will complete video notes for
Lexington and Concord. Complete a person
analysis for Thomas Paine.
5. LEXINGTON AND CONCORD
(BACKGROUND INFO)
• With the Intolerable Acts in effect some colonists
were ready to fight for independence from
England.
• At the towns of Lexington and Concord colonists
were preparing to resist. Colonists began storing
guns and ammunition to fight against the Redcoats.
• When the Redcoats heard of the storage they
dispatched soldiers to seize the arms(guns and
ammo) from the colonists at Lexington and
Concord.
6. LEXINGTON AND CONCORD
• Watch the following video “The Shot Heard Round
the World” and complete the video study questions.
7.
8. THOMAS PAINE
• Just like Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine began urging
colonist to separate from England. In his pamphlet
Common Sense he told the colonists that their was
not a single advantage the colonists could gain
from remaining a part of England.
