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Teacher Notes

Chapter 4

Becoming a State

Chapter 4 Lesson 1

The main theme of this

lesson is 3H3.0.3 causal

relationships.

General Wayne¡¯s name is

now attached to our most

populous county.

People To Meet

King George III (III means third) (127)

Daniel Boone (BOON) (128)

General Anthony Wayne (an thon ee wayn) (130)

President George Washington (130)

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Before Michigan could

become a state, our country had to be formed.

This lesson touches on the

War for Independence,

General Wayne¡¯s move to

remove the British. The

next lesson deals with the

War of 1812. All of these

events had to take place

before the land we call

Michigan was firmly a

part of the United States

and open for settlement.

Ideas To Explore

The War for Independence and the beginning of

the United States (127)

Words to Welcome

independence (in dee pen dense) (127)

liberty (lib er tee) - a core democratic value (128)

Liberty was important to those

who started our country. They

put the word on our first coins.

Michigan

Social

Studies

GLCEs

3H3.0.3

3H3.0.8

1760- the British

take Michigan

from the French

1775- The War for

Independence starts.

Americans fight the

British.

1783- The War for

Independence ends.

The United States

begins as a nation.

1796- The

British

finally leave

Michigan.

3H3.0.9

3H3.0.10

3H3.0.10 timelines of

history

1760

1770

1780

1790

The British and the Americans

126

1800

Lesson 1

Teacher Notes

Becoming A StateIt Was Not Easy!

Think about this while you read.

How did the War for Independence

change Michigan?

1

The U.S. Becomes a Nation

You have learned a lot about Michigan, but

it was not yet a state. It is now 1770. Our country

has not even been started. Before Michigan can

be a state, the United States has to be a nation!

This key event has to take place first.

At this time, George III was

king of Britain. The people here

did not like a king telling them

what to do. They did not like

being told that they could not

move west. They did not like

paying taxes to the British. The

people wanted to be free. They

wanted to start their own country.

2

The British had 13 colonies in America.

These were along the Atlantic Ocean. These

colonies wanted to be free. In the spring of 1775

they started to fight for their freedom. This fight

was called the War for Independence. Independence means not to be ruled by someone else. The

Key Event

3H3.0.3 causal relationships

The Warm Up

A key event may

unlock the reason

something happens

later.

People did

not want to pay

taxes to Britain.

YEAR

1775

127

Ask your class ¨C

Suppose there was a big

bully in your school. He

told all the kids what to

do. He took part of

everyone¡¯s lunch money.

What if it got so bad

everyone decided to start

a new school to be free of

him? This is sort of what

happened when our

country was started.

The king of England was

the bully as far as most

Americans were

concerned.

Teacher Notes

Chapter 4

colonies also wanted liberty. Liberty is a core

democratic value. Liberty means to do what you

wish as long as it does not hurt anyone. It is the

freedom to do anything that is not against the law.

Core Democratic Value

New Hampshire

New York

Pennsylvania

Massachusetts

Rhode Island

Connecticut

New Jersey

Delaware

Maryland

Virginia

North Carolina

South Carolina

Georgia

1775

The 13 states which were once the

British colonies. The shapes of some

have changed since the 1700s.

3

The British Use Michigan

Michigan was not

one of the 13 colonies.

Most of the fighting was

far from Michigan. Still,

British soldiers were here

and they used Michigan as

a base. The British sent

their soldiers from Detroit

and had the tribes help

them. These men attacked

the colonies.

Sometimes American

settlers were kidnapped by

the tribes. A few of these

were brought to Detroit.

Daniel Boone (BOON) was

one of them. He was a famous

pioneer and explorer. The

Native Americans caught him

and were proud of it.

FYI

Daniel Boone was

taken to Detroit in

1778 by the Shawnees.

128

Daniel Boone

and his dog.

Lesson 1

The Fort at Mackinac is Moved

The Americans made plans to march to

Michigan. This worried the British here. The

British felt Fort Michilimackinac was too easy to

attack. They decided to move the fort. It would

be safer on Mackinac Island. They built the new

fort on a hill. It had a good view of the harbor.

The British could see anyone coming from far

away. The new fort was finished in 1781. If you

visit the island, you can still see it today!

4

This is another part of the

tug of war over who controls

the land of Michigan.

You can share this concept

with your students. Initially,

there were many Native

Americans and few Europeans in the ¡°tug-of-war¡± for

North America. As the years

passed, there were more and

more Europeans and fewer

and fewer Native Americans.

The Native Americans eventually lost control.

The Americans never marched to

Michigan. Detroit was not attacked. The

fort at Mackinac was safe.

The War Ends- The United States Begins

Finally the fighting ended. Peace at last!

The War for Independence ended in 1783. The

colonies were free from Britain! Each colony

became a state in the new United States of

Teacher Notes

YEAR

1783

129

Teacher Notes

Chapter 4

3H3.0.8 actions of individuals

America. It started with 13 states. George

Washington became the first President. The new

country had much land that was not in the 13

states. Michigan was a part of that land. It was

mostly forest. It was a place where Native

Americans lived. There were only a few towns.

Get Into the Act!

A Human Time Line 3H3.0.10

(Use this activity after discussing the meaning of chronological order.)

Five students go to the front

of the class. Each holds a card

showing one of these dates:

1760, 1770, 1780, 1790, 1800.

Have them stand in chronological order. Write out the 4 events

from page 126, but leave off the

dates. Give one event to each of

4 other students. Students could

do research and find additional

events from this lesson.

Examples could be: Ft. Mackinac

is built (1781), General Wayne¡¯s

battle in Ohio (1794). Now, the

students holding the dates must

get into the correct order around

those with the decades. The rest

of the class can help the ¡°event¡±

students to find their correct

positions among the ¡°decade¡±

students.

But the British Stay in Michigan

Wait! After the war, the British did

not leave Michigan. They stayed in their

forts. They traded for furs with the tribes.

They even gave them guns so they could

fight American settlers. Maybe the British

felt they could weaken our new nation.

This was not fair! Michigan did not

belong to the British now!

General Anthony

Wayne lived from

1745 to 1796.

from Archives of

Michigan 13862

YEAR

1796

The Americans were fed up.

President George Washington took

action. He sent an army west. The general in

charge was Anthony Wayne.

In 1794, there was a huge battle in Ohio.

General Wayne fought the British and Native

Americans there. He won the battle. In 1796 the

British left Michigan. The tribes made peace

with the Americans, at least for now.

Now there were American soldiers in the

fort at Detroit. They also stayed at Mackinac

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