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

8. Independent Practice:
Read pages
119 to 132 in
the textbook.
Answer the
questions in
the textbook.

9. Independent Practice:
Guide to
reading
questions are
located on
the upper
right corner
of the page

10. Independent Practice:
 The question on
p. 121 is NOT
“Remember
Phillis
Wheatley?”
 Answer the
questions on p.
121

11. Independent Practice:
Read pages
119 to 132 in
the textbook.
Answer the
questions in
the textbook.

12. Exit Ticket:
 What was the
Enlightenment?