Chapter 11, Loyalist versus Patriots

Loyalist versus Patriots

The British are coming: The word was spread without TV

Chapter 11

Social Studies History Alive, America’s Past and Present

Objectives

1.     Describe the personal backgrounds of Loyalists and Patriots.

2.     Explain key arguments made by Patriots for independence and by Loyalists against independence with evidence.

3.     Describe who would have been a Neutralist.

4.     Name famous people on either side.

Assignments

T-Chart Homework (10 points)

Patriot and Loyalist description sheet (20 POINTS)

Technology Supplement
Loyalist versus Patriots

kid friendly debate
short comic clip on the debate

Patriots, Rebels, Congress -men, American Whigs, and Revolutionaries

George Washington- planter from Virginia, became the commander of the Continental Army and later the first President 



Patrick Henry- also from Virginia, a great orator- “Give me Liberty or Give me Death!” 



Paul Revere- silversmith from Boston, a secret agent of the Patriots, and on April 18th, 1775, made his famous midnight ride from Boston to Lexington warning the British were coming 



John Adams, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson were the writers of the Declaration of Independence 



Marquis de Lafayette, a Frenchman who helped the Patriots and gave them money and was a good soldier 



Nathan Hale- was a spy for the Patriots, and was caught by the British, before he was hung, he said “ I regret I have but one life to lose for my country” 



Crispus Attucks, a African American man, killed by the British during the Boston Massacre in 1770- this act pushed many others to join the Patriots

Abigail Adams- ran the family farm while husband John was at the Continental Congress, and encouraged the founding fathers not to forget the women of the country while they wrote the new laws of the country 




Mercy Otis Warren- she wrote plays that made fun of the British and books about the war 




Ben Franklin

Thomas Paine

Phyllis Wheatley- an African girl slave, of the Wheatley family, wrote poetry for the war effort 




Deborah Sampson- dressed as a man to join the army. Once discovered a year later she was given an honorable dischargeLoyalists , King’s or Tories

King George III
Thomas Hutchinson

Anne Hutchinson

Flora MacDonald

John Burgoyne

Joseph Brant

       Benedict Arnold

"Poor England trying to control her unruly children"

Technology supplement
Loyalists vs. Patriot