Alabama Social Studies SS24.6.7c
The Standard
- SS24.6.7
- Identify causes and events leading to the War for Independence, including salutary neglect, the Stamp Act, the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, the Intolerable Acts, Virginia Convention (1775), and the Declaration of Independence, and describe how these events escalated tension between the colonies and Great Britain.
Describe the positive and negative effects of taxation and trade on the economic livelihood of American colonies in the 1760s and 1770s and explain how this issue violated colonists’ expectations of representative government.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how trade with Britain brought income and goods to the colonies. They describe how taxes and trade rules raised costs or limited where merchants could sell. They explain why colonists objected to taxes passed by lawmakers they did not elect.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how a fish seller earned money from British trade while a tea duty raised a shopkeeper’s costs. They can explain that colonists elected members of their own assemblies but not members of Parliament.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students think all trade with Britain hurt the colonies, or that a tax stopped trade entirely. Others think colonists had no elected lawmakers at all.
How to Assess It
- Ask students to write three sentences: How did British trade help a colonial merchant? How could a tea duty hurt? Why did colonists object to Parliament passing that duty?
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs fish, lumber, and tea cards with paper coins; have them trade, then collect a coin for each imported tea card.
Ask: Why might a shopkeeper value British customers but oppose a tea duty passed by Parliament? Have students write a two-sentence reply.
Sort four cards, fish exports, British cloth imports, the Stamp Act, and a tea duty, into income, cost, or both; defend each choice.
Show a store receipt with sales tax; ask which elected lawmakers approved that tax and compare their role with Parliament’s role in colonial taxes.
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