Chapter 11 Loyalist or Patriot Jumble

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Chapter 11Loyalist or Patriot Jumble

• Fill the notes in for the appropriate colonist.
• Use your social studies book to match the notes
  to the correct colonist

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Loyalist or Patriot?

• Occupation
• writer
• Action Taken
• wrote plays and poems supporting independence
• Argument
• Britain was too far away to understand the
  colonists needs and daily lives

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Loyalist or Patriot?

• Occupation
• governor of Massachusetts
• Action Taken
• enforced British laws like the Stamp Act
• Argument
• The king of England knew what was best because he
  had experience and he was wise

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Loyalist or Patriot?

• Occupation
• governor of Virginia
• Action Taken
• attacked Patriots homes and plantations
• Argument
• Colonists had a duty to obey British laws and not
  become traitors

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Loyalist or Patriot?

• Occupation
• politician
• Action Taken
• organized the Sons of Liberty and led the Boston
  Tea Party to protest unfair British taxes
• Argument
• The colonists should be able to elect their own
  governors and have the power to change unfair laws

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Loyalist or Patriot?

• Occupation
• priest in the Church of England
• Action Taken
• preached that disobeying the king was like
  disobeying God
• Argument
• A war for independence would hurt people much
  more than a few bad laws

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Loyalist or Patriot?

• Occupation
• writer, printer, inventor, scientist, colonial
  representative to the British government
• Action Taken
• tried to persuade Britain to stop making laws
  that the colonists thought were unfair
• Argument
• the colonists had the ability to govern themselves