Today in class, we began to look at the aftermath of the French and Indian War, and the impact this event had on the colonies. We started by sharing some of our homework responses and looking at the idea of trigger incidences - events that start a series of chain reactions, leading to another major event. An example of a trigger incident might be injuring yourself in PE, for example. Let's say you sprain your wrist in PE one day. The wrist is your writing hand, so you can't do schoolwork for a couple of days. You get behind in your schoolwork, and then your grades fall. Your parents look at your grades on PowerSchool and realize you have - shock and horror! - a C- in your very most favorite class, US History!!! They ground you until you are 35 and you get in an epic name-calling screaming fight. The trigger incident in this case was injuring your wrist, and the major event would be the epic fight.
We also looked at how the colonies were starting to get ideas and attitudes that were different from the mother country's ideas and attitudes. Colonists were used to living with very few rules or restrictions placed on them by England, under the policy of salutary neglect - the official British policy of leaving the colonies to manage themselves as long as they (the colonies) were profiting the mother country. The French and Indian War left England with an enormous war debt to pay off, so be on the lookout for how that affects their relationship with and to the colonies.
We ended by looking at a clip from Last of the Mohicans, where a British military recruiter comes face-to-face with the new attitude of the colonists, and he doesn't really like what he sees.
If you missed class today, please see me when you get back to find out what you need to do.
HOMEWORK: All week, we will be working on an assignment called Impressions of America. For tomorrow, I want you to have identified what kind of product you want to create for this assignment. The final product is due FRIDAY.
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