Time Table leading up to the Revolutionary War

• Tea Act Boston Tea Party• BTP Intolerable Acts• IA 1st Continental Congress• 1st CC boycott British goods, prepare local

militias, Declaration of Rights• D of R Lexington/Concord – shot

heard ‘round the world• SHRW 2nd Continental Congress

Time Table leading up to the Revolutionary War

• 2nd CC Continental Army (GW), Olive Branch Petition

• OBP It’s War or Peace• W or P Efforts for UNITY (enlistment,

public support – Join, or Die, Common Sense, Declaration of Independence)

Spreading the word…• WE NEED ALL THE HELP WE CAN GET!!!!• Enlistment

– An army• State militias• Continental Army• Women/African Americans

– Public support• Pictures – Join, or Die (unite, create a common enemy)• Literature – Common Sense (put the situation in laymen’s

terms)• Authority/Leadership – Declaration of Independence

(government providing an explanation of why we are fighting)

How do we unite?

Unify? Come together? Rally support?

Were most Americans in support of the war?

Raising an Army PP

Working on unity

Join or DieCommon Sense

Declaration of Independence

But how do you get everyone on the same page?

JOIN, or DIE

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What is this cartoon all about?

• 1. What is this a picture of?– A. Snake/serpent

• 2. What makes up the snake/serpent?– A. segments or colonies/states

• Which colonies are mentioned?– A. South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia,

Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, New England

• 3. What is the purpose of this cartoon?– A. Present a unified front against any enemy– B. Rally support for revolt/breaking free from Great Britain

Common Sense

PhiladelphiaJanuary 1776

4 “chapters” of CS

• Of the Origin and Design of Government in General, with Concise Remarks on the English Constitution

• Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession

• Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs

• Of the Present Ability of America: with some Miscellaneous Reflections

Author…Thomas Paine (ouch)

“There is something very absurd in supporting a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.”

WHAT IS PAINE SAYING?Citizens, not Kings and Queens, should

make laws

WHY IS THIS A BOLD STATEMENT?

Writes as a common person (anonymously) to the common man

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Declaration of Independence

What is it?

Authors…Committee of FiveRobert

Livingston

Roger Sherman

Ben Franklin

John Adams

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson• Youngest of the

committee (33)• Virginia delegate

• Drafts a version over a period of three weeks

• Committee/CC revisions• Acceptance July 4, 1776

• 56 Signatures: John Hancock

All men are

created equal…

Five Parts

• Introduction– This section will declare the causes that makes this

document necessary (we have our reasons to write such a document)

• Preamble– States our self-evident principles (explains what is

innately ours as a human) (because we are human we have the right to life, liberty and property (pursuit of happiness)

– States that a government is established to protect those rights/principles (your GB government should have protected those rights)

Five Parts

• Body One– Lists the abuses that King George III has imposed on the

colonists (violations of those rights) (here is a list of all the times you haven’t protected our rights)

• Body Two– Discusses the attempts at peace and reconciliation

(Declaration of Rights, Olive Branch Petition) (even after all of these violations, we still tried to make peace offerings)

• Conclusion– States colonial freedom (we are now free; states not colonies,

but not just states we are a United States of America)

What truths are self-evident?

All are created

Unalienable (undeniable) Rights

What truths are self-evident?

When govt. becomes destructive of these rights…

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Declaration of Independence

• Stated the conditions that made the Declaration of Independence necessary

• Described the basic rights of people• Proved the conditions existed in Colonial

America (basic rights being violated)• Ends all allegiance to Great Britain