The Revolutionary Period: 1763 to 1789

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6. The Duel for North America

7. The Road to Revolution

8. America Secedes From the Empire

Additional Notes:                                   Outside Readings:

Wars of Empire Notes                             Benjamin Franklin: Walter Isaacson Excerpt

Duel for North America: Themes               Crown vs. Colony from Great Debates 

Road to Revolution: Main Ideas                "America Should Not Declare Independence"

America Secedes: Main Ideas                   "America Must Be Made Independent of Britain" 

Treaty of Paris                                       Abridged Common Sense: Thomas Paine 

2nd Continental Congress                        Declaration of Independence

Causes of the American Revolution            Howard Zinn: "The War was Not a Social Revolution"

Declaration of Independence               Gordon S. Wood "The War Was a Social Revolution"               

Effects of American Revolution

Political Beliefs Rooted In Colonial Period