4 Corners
Name the 4 corners
POV, HC, AUD, AP
How many paragraphs does your DBQ essay need to be?
Four
A tax on tea which led to the Boston Tea Party
Tea Act
Nine-year war between the British and the French in North America. Resulted in the exit of French from the North America in Treaty of Paris (1763). Colonists emerged more unified from victory. War left the British in debt, which Parliament tried to fix by colonists with Stamp Act, Townshend Acts, Tea Act, and others.
French and Indian War
What information needs to be in your POV?
Author, biases, details on the author, year
Where does your thesis statement go in your essay?
Last sentence of your introduction.
Tax on paper passed by parliament in 1764 to pay French and Indian War debt. Colonists responded by boycotting British goods, attacked tax collectors. Repealed 1766.
Stamp Act
Response to Pontiac’s Rebellion. Forbid colonists from settling west of Appalachian Mountains. Outraged colonists disobeyed.
Proclamation of 1763
What is the difference between AP and AC?
AC is the argument of the text
AP is why the author made the document
How do you create document groupings?
AKA: Buckets?
Use SIG statements and topics of each documents to see which match. Place matching documents into the same group/bucket to make your body arguments.
Colonists are forced to feed and house British troops.
Quartering Act
Rowdy protest against the British East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade through Tea Act. Colonists, disguised as Indians, dumped tea into Boston Harbor.
Boston Tea Party
What information needs to be in your HC?
Outside evidence/events that had influence on the document and the year
What type of evidence needs to be in your ZO2?
Outside evidence
Parliament’s punishment for Boston Tea Party. Closed port of Boston, expanded Quartering Act, placed Massachusetts gov under British control, sent troops to enforce.
Intolerable Acts
Rebellion led by Ottawa Chief out of self-defense after French and Indian War. British settlers west of the Appalachian mountains threatened to deplete the natural resources Indigenous nations relied on for survival. Resulted in Proclamation of 1763.
Pontiac's Rebellion
What must your SIG statement do?
Explain how the document answers the prompt.
How do you create your thesis in history?
Put your body 1/2 argument sentences together. Add context
These Acts were a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. Early attempts, such as the Stamp Act of 1765—which taxed colonists for every piece of paper they used and were met with widespread protests in America.
Townshend Acts
British thinker supporting constitutional monarchy with laws limiting gov’t. Supported social contract & natural rights. Influenced Dec of Independence
John Locke