Welcome to 8th Grade

U.S. HistoryMr. Hughes

Current Events (Set 7)1. “Villain not a Hero: Seattle City Council

Replaces Columbus Day 2014 with Indigenous Peoples Day.”

City sites negative effects of Columbian Exchange on Native Americans: disease, slavery and Christianization.

Unintended consequences? His voyages did spark a great age of trans-Atlantic exploration

Italian Americans

Old WorldNew World

Current Event #22. “Change of Identity? Students Petition SDSU

President to Drop Aztecs Name & Warrior Mascot.”Resolution claims references are racist stereotypes

that portray Native Americans as violent & savage.

University changed mascot 10 years ago after consulting with historians and Aztec groups

Current Event #33. “Search Begins for Body of King Harold, last Anglo-

Saxon King of England, at Essex Waltham Abbey Church.”Defeated at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 by William

the Conqueror, his body was allegedly dismembered.

Today is the 948th anniversary of the Normans victory & the beginning of Feudal System. Underground scan pro may prove claim that Harold survived & lived 40 years as a hermit

Current Event #44. “Greek Mystery: Dig Begins at Ancient Tomb that

may Contain Wife or Son of Alexander the Great.”Tomb is guarded by 2 stone sphinxes and 2 caryatids

(sculpted female figures) with a tiled floor mosaic.

Florence

Athenians, Spartans, Macedonians, Persians, & Romans all marched through Amphipolis

Hermes Alexander the Great

Current Event #55. “NASA Study Shows Sleeper Spaceship Could

Carry Astronauts to Mars in a Hibernation State.”Therapeutic hypothermia could induce “torpor,” a

type of artificial hibernation for 9 month long trip.

Medical method is a type of suspended animation currently used on traumatic injury patients

The Road to Revolution“Cause & Effect T-Chart”

British Actions (England) Colonists’ Reactions (America)

Sugar Act (1764)

Stamp Act (1765)

Quartering Act (1765)

Townshend Act (1767)

Writs of Assistance

Boston Massacre (1770)

Tea Act (1773)

Intolerable Acts (1774)

Committees of Correspondence

Sons of Liberty: “No taxation without Representation!”

Colonists protest Red Coats living In their homes …..( = 3rd Amend.)

Daughters of Liberty, Boycott

Trial: Red Coats not guilty (John Adams)

Boston Tea Party

First Continental Congress (Phil), Militia

Smuggling…. ( = 4th Amend / Search Warrants)

Lexington (1775) Revolution: Shot Heard Around the World

13 Colonies KWL(notebook page 25)

Write 3 facts that you’ve learned about the 13 Colonies in the “L” section of the KWL

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Was the Boston Massacre Really a Massacre?

History Standard: 8.1

Captain Preston - Redcoat Robert Goddard - Colonist

Defense Witness Testimony Prosecution Witness Testimony

DBQ: Was the Boston Massacre Really a Massacre?

Analysis Document “C” - Paul Revere, “The Bloody Massacre in King-Street, March 5, 1770.

19th Century adaption of Crisups Attucks death in The Boston Massacre

Analysis Document “D” – Newspaper article, “Four Coffins of Men Killed in the Boston Massacre,” March

12, 1770.

Document “C” Document “D”