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The American Revolution Collection
This collection of resources contains everything you need for students to understand how the American colonies’ resistance to laws fueled the American Revolutionary War.
Whether you teach each day throughout a week or as time allows over the next month, each lesson builds essential skills, such as analyzing different points of view about the Stamp Act, investigating colonial reactions to the Intolerable Acts, and determining when exactly the American Revolutionary War began.
Guiding Question
How Did Opposition to Laws Fuel the American Revolutionary War?
Step 1
Get your students engaged and familiar with the words before digging into the vocab with a song!
This music video teaches kids about civil discourse and compromise. Carla and Jade disagree about their school mascot, and Max helps them resolve their differences.
Differences, Disagreements, and Democracy
Step 2
This lesson introduces students to the Stamp Act and explores why it was controversial. Students will study primary sources, analyze the arguments, and identify the strongest reasons.
Was the Stamp Act Fair?
In this lesson, students will learn what the Stamp Act was and why it was controversial.
Step 3
Take the next step with this lesson, where students learn how the British government punished the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party by passing the Intolerable Acts.
Students will use reasons and evidence to support their answer to the question: Did the punishment for the Boston Tea Party work?
Did the Punishment for the Boston Tea Party Work?
Historians study cause and effect. They will learn what the Intolerable Acts did and explore how the colonists responded to the punishment.
Step 4
In this culminating lesson, students transition from learning to application, actively using their new knowledge through gameplay. The post-game quiz or discussion questions can be used to reinforce key ideas.
Uncovering Loyalties
Ready to dig in?
Discover lessons designed to meet all of your instructional needs. Our nonpartisan classroom resources engage students with complex concepts in ways they can understand and relate to.