Topic: Key Ideas and Details (ELA - Reading: Informational Text)

"In May 1774, in retaliation for the 'Boston Tea Party,' Parliament closed the port of Boston and virtually abolished provincial self-government in Massachusetts." (paragraph 6)

"During the winter of 1774-75, while Parliament mulled over conciliatory measures, colonial militia units prepared for war." (paragraph 9)

"The first declared that the American colonists were entitled to the same rights as Englishmen everywhere and denounced any infringement of those rights." (paragraph 8)

"In a sense the Continental Congress acted with restraint, for while it was in session the situation in Massachusetts verged on war." (paragraph 9)

Colonists disagreed on the validity of English taxes and laws. (paragraph 7)

Settlers were disgruntled with limitations on the frontier. (paragraph 4)

The Massachusetts lower house secretly invited all 13 colonies to attend a convention. (paragraph 6)

Violators of the embargo were punished and ridiculed. (paragraph 8)

a decision that colonists' next step should be to dissolve their local governments and demand colonial representation in the Parliament of Great Britain

a focus on using economic power to force the British government to treat colonists as if they were English citizens living in Great Britain

an acknowledgment that political and financial remedies had been exhausted and that the next step would have to be military action

the belief that the colonies benefited from their ties with Great Britain and therefore would have to accept their limited political rights

Colonial governments actively resisted British policies.

Colonial governments seized British military supplies.

Colonial governments threatened British self-government.

Colonial governments allied themselves with Britain's enemies on the western frontier.

"The next month, Massachusetts patriots, openly defying royal authority, organized a Revolutionary provincial assembly as well as a military defense committee." (paragraph 9)

"Reluctant to sever ties of blood, language, trade, and cultural heritage, none yet openly entertained the idea of complete independence from Great Britain." (paragraph 7)

"Sharing though they did common complaints against the Crown, the Delegates propounded a wide variety of political opinions." (paragraph 7)

"Frontier settlers and speculators were irked at restrictions on westward expansion and the Indian trade." (paragraph 4)

the fact that paragraphs 3-11 describe a chain of events beginning with the French and Indian War and ending with the Battle of Concord

the repeated references to bloodshed in paragraph 9 and the pictures of coffins in the last illustration

the idea that the first paragraph describes an event from 1776 and the last paragraph describes an event from 1775

the explanation in paragraph 5 of why the British tightened their control over the colonial assemblies

" ... the Delegates to the Continental Congress courageously signed a document .... " (paragraph 1)

" ... the colonists had finally resorted to armed conflict." (paragraph 2)

" ... it memorializes the founding of the United States .... " (paragraph 1)

" ... the War for Independence had been underway for more than a year." (paragraph 2)

"In some ways I would have liked to talk to you at an earlier date-but I couldn't talk to you as a Director."

"I want anyone who feels like it to ask me a question and if I can't answer it, as will often be the case, I will just have to say so."

"I do not have anything very radical to say, or anything that will strike most of you with a great flash of enlightenment."

"As you know, some of us have been asked to be technical advisors to the Secretary of War, and through him to the President."

" ... it is not possible to speak in detail about what Mr. A thinks and Mr. B doesn't think .... "

"I am grateful to the Executive Committee .... "

" ... I will just have to say so .... "

" ... which involve us as a group of scientists ... "

"And, therefore, I think that this resistance which we feel and see all around us to anything which is an attempt to treat science of the future as though it were rather a dangerous thing, a thing that must be watched and managed, is resisted not because of its inconvenience-I think we are in a position where we must be willing to take any inconvenience-but resisted because it is based on a philosophy incompatible with that by which we live, and have learned to live in the past." (paragraph 7)

"And that may help us-that, and the fact that we have lived with it-to be of some use in understanding these problems." (paragraph 9)

"Some of that talk has been on a rather low plane, limited really to saying that it is difficult or inconvenient to work in a world where you are not free to do what you want." (paragraph 7)

"I am sure that there is truth in it, because there has never in the past been a new field opened up where the real fruits of it have not been invisible at the beginning." (paragraph 8)

" ... a situation is allowed to develop in the world .... "

" ... lead in the field of atomic power."

" ... continuous danger of sudden annihilation."

" ... solemn responsibility of the United States ... "

paragraph 6

paragraph 9

paragraph 3

paragraph 7

Speech:" ... realize that these atomic weapons which we have started to make are very terrible ... " Petition: " ... the cities of the United States as well as the cities of other nations will be in continuous danger of sudden annihilation."

Speech: " ... when you come right down to it the reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity." Petition: " ... with the defeat of Germany, this danger is averted .... "

Speech: " ... will make it possible to integrate these developments into human life." Petition:" ... added material strength which this lead gives to the United States ... "

Speech:" ... that some sort of protection will be found." Petition: " ... attacks by atomic bombs may very well be an effective method of warfare."

" ... would have shone at a wake ... "

" ... the gong sounded for prayer meeting."

" ... the unprejudiced mind ... "

" ... whist and dancing ..."

the peacefulness of life at sea

the bustle and confusion on the ship

the uncertainty of what lies ahead on the excursion

the gloominess felt by the passengers on the excursion