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Item Nr: KM 931 Title: Boston Tea Party to the American Revolution-Jackdaw (BB)
Grade Lvl: IJ Author:
Length: 0 Prod/Pub: Jackdaw Publications
Copyright: 2001 Series: JACKDAWS
Book Type: Biographee:
Copies: 1 Loan Period: 10 days
 
  The hands-on history in this Jackdaw takes your students from the Boston Tea Party to Bunker Hill and the struggle to field and fund our army. Hands-on documents include a handbill persuading British soldiers to desert, a 1783 issue of the South Carolina Gazette, and early American “home-made” money. Please see professional book: B 96732 for ideas to support teaching and learning with Jackdaw primary sources. IL 5-8. The contents of this Jackdaw feature: Broadsheets Taxes, Tea and Trouble George Washington, Commander-In-Chief Why the British Lost the War After the War Historical Documents Letter to East India Tea Co. defending Boston Tea Party, 1773. Map of Boston and the fighting at Bunker Hill, 1775. Proclamation by King George III ordering a general fast, 1776. Draft of the Declaration of Independence with notes and amendments. Declaration of Independence signed by Congress on July 4, 1776. Resolve of Congress giving Washington power to raise forces and make people accept paper money, 1776. Pages from the journal of British Lieutenant William Digby, 1776-1777. Letter: Gen. Heath to Gen. Burgoyne on captured British soldiers, 1778. Letter from General Washington to New York Governor Clinton, 1779. Issue of the South Carolina Gazette and General Advertiser, 1783. Congressional commission to Benjamin Hopkins, 1779. American paper money. Lottery ticket printed by Americans to raise money for the war, 1776. Handbill persuading British soldiers to desert. Order of battle: diagrams drawn by George Washington, 1777. Captain Cooley’s note authorizing provisions for scouts, 1779. Reconnaissance order giving instructions for a mission, 1779. General George Washington taking the salute at Trenton, 1776. Map of the battlefields of the American Revolution. Study Guide / Lesson Plan – Reproducible Activities

  Subjects:
  58 - AMERICA--HISTORY/AMERICAN
  433 - EDUCATION, SECONDARY
  1796 - ENGLAND
  1364 - MIDDLE SCHOOL/SCHOOLS
  795 - NEW ENGLAND
  1840 - PRIMARY SOURCES
  1007 - SOCIAL STUDIES
  1942 - TEACHER RESOURCES
  1108 - U.S.--HISTORY
  1113 - U.S.--HISTORY--REVOLUTION/REVOLUTIONARY WAR
  1605 - VISUAL LITERACY