Week of October 26-30, 2015

Reminder: Last week of October and Social Studies District Benchmark #1 is coming up next week!!!

**This week we continue delving into the causes of the American Revolution**

Last week we concluded how tensions further escalated between Mother country and its American colonies when Sons of Liberty decided to dump 342 chest of tea into harbor. Mother country reacts by imposing harsher laws on Boston hoping to settle them and the rest of the colonies but this week we learn how King George's plan backfires and leads to the forming of the: 

First Continental Congress

Then:

NOW:

-First Continental Congress

-Lexington and Concord

-Colonists Split

-Patrick Henry

-Thomas Paine 

-Mercy Otis Warren

-Abigail Adams