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)
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
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
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?
When govt. becomes destructive of these rights…
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