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ESSENTIAL QUESTION: HOW DID THE DEVELOPMENT OF COLONIES LEAD TO REBELLION?
Objectives: Students will learn that. . . 1. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense led many colonists to support independence. 2. Colonists had to choose sides when independence was declared. 3. The Declaration of Independence did not address the rights of all colonists.
 * __ Vocabulary:  __**// Common Sense //, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, Loyalists

1-CREATE A WEB ON BANNER PAPER USING THE FOLLOWING LIST OF COMPLAINTS COLONISTS HAD AGAINST KING GEORGE III TO DECLARE INDEPENDENCE FROM BRITAIN. 2-TITLE BANNER, "__**LIST OF COMPLAINTS AGAINST KING GEORGE III"**__
 * __INSTRUCTIONS:__**

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__**LIST OF COMPLAINTS AGAINST KING GEORGE III**__

Over 25 abuses of King George III over a 10 year period and provide ample evidence that the Declaration was justified.

The abuses included: 1. Unfair taxation 2. Cutting off trade 3. Abolishing good and helpful laws 4. Making arbitrary laws himself 5. Creating new government departments with officials that harass the people 6. Depriving colonists of trial by jury 7. Protecting his own officials that were murderers 8. Attempting to establish military rule 9. Hiring mercenaries to harass and kill colonists 10. Capturing and forcing colonists to fight against their fellow colonists or be killed 11. Fostering domestic uprisings in the colonies 12. Disallowing or not hearing any appeals for justice