COLONIAL/REVOLUTIONARY WAR PERIOD.
Events leading up to the war
Cause and Effect Flow Chart
Thomas Jefferson
Grid Map of a Colonial Village
Teacher Page
This set of activities were created by Dawn Wise/Barrington
Content Standards:
* Students will use information from a chartto create a timeline.
*Students will use a chart to organizeand identify causes and effects.
* Students will interpret a grid map.
*Students will provide a written explanation of the effect that the Louisiana Purchase had on
Missourians.
* Students will identify the two main contributions that Thomas Jefferson was
responsible for.
Instruct the students to use their journals
to create the timeline, flow chart , and to
respond in writing to all of the following activities and prompts.
EVENTS YEARS
Use this table tocreate a timeline entitled: “EventsLeading up to TheRevolutionary War.”
French andIndian War Ends
Stamp Act
TownshendActsBostonMassacre
Boston TeaParty
Intolerable Acts
1754
1765
1767
1770
1773
1774
Did you draw something like this?
Copy theflow chart.(click)
This causesthe coloniststo:
This causesParliament to: repeal the
Stamp Act.
TownshendActs are passed.
This causesthe coloniststo: boycott British goods.
British troops are sent to keep order.Colonists attack them.
This causes:Five colonists to bekilled in the BostonMassacre.
Parliamentpasses theStamp Act.
Complete the Cause and Effect Chart
Protest byburning stamps.
Read each effect. Fill in the causes.
BostonMassacre
While ThomasJefferson waspresident, hepurchased theregion of theUnited States
known then as Louisiana. How did this effectMissourians?
Previously,thisregion wasgoverned by France. The LouisianaPurchase madeMissouriansUnited States citizens.
Which of these documents was written byThomas Jefferson to announce to Englandand the world that the colonies were free
to govern themselves?A) The Missouri Compromise
B) The Mayflower Compact
C) The Louisiana Purchase
D) The Declaration of Independence
That’sCorrect!
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answer
SHOEMAKER
SCHOOL
MILL’s FARM
BARREL MAKER
BLACKSMITH
GENERAL STORE
WALDEN POND
A
B
C
1 2 3 4
Use thegrid map
to answerthese
questions:
Where isthe
Blacksmithlocated?
Where is the General
Storelocated?
Where isthe schoollocated?
B2 is thelocation of
_______?
Which placeoccupies
more thanone square?
Mill’s Farm !Give itslocation.
Give thelocation of
the Shoemaker.
ColonialVillage
WELL
MEETING HOUSE