King George III. The French and Indian War Guerilla Warfare.
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King George III
Taxes passed to pay for the war
Sugar Act – tax on sugar
Currency Act – the only money allowed in colonies was British pound
Quartering Act – allowed British soldiers to live with colonists at the colonists expense
Stamp Act – placed tax on all legal documents
The Sons of Liberty
“No taxation without representation”
The colonists were upset that they were being tax at a high rate and had no say in it because they were not
represented in Parliament
THE BOSTON MASSACRE
The Boston Massacre Trial
Boston Tea Party
SAMUEL ADAMS
JOHN HANCOCK
PAUL REVERE
ROBERT TREAT PAINE
JOHN ADAMS
Abigail Adams
John Quincy Adams
Sons of Liberty – a secretive group that originated in Boston whose aim was to change the British government’s treatment of the colonies
Propaganda – communication which aims at influencing attitudes
Liberty Will Reign
The Intolerable Acts
-Closed the port of Boston and placed the city under martial law until all of the tea was paid back -Banned all town meetings in Massachusetts-All British officials would be sent back to Great Britain to face trial- Increase the amount of British soldiers on colonial soil and increased the amount of quartering-Increased the size of the Canadian borders, in reality it had nothing to do with what was going on in Boston but many colonists felt the British were going to use Canada to control them
Ben Franklin
The most well known American at the time suggested that the colonies should have a meeting to discuss what to do about King George III, but was in
London when meeting finally occurred
First Continental Congress
Massachusetts
John AdamsSamuel Adams
Robert Treat Paine
Radicals
Pennsylvania
John Dickinson Joseph Galloway
Reconcilers
Virginia
Patrick HenryRadical Colonel George
WashingtonModerate
Richard Henry LeeModerate
South Carolina
Edward Rutledge John Rutledge
Loyalists
First Continental Congress
- enacted boycott on all British goods
- Agreed on a second meeting one year later
The Battle of Lexington and Concord
“the shot heard around the world”
Thomas Paine
Common Sense, a pamphlet that explained in simple terms what the British were doing wrong
Second Continental CongressNew Faces
John Hancock Ben Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Dr. Benjamin Rush
Patrick Henry
Did not attend because he had become the governor of Virginia, where he gave his famous speech to the
House of Burgess
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what
course others may take; but as for me, Give me Liberty or Give me Death!!!!”
Treason – a citizens act to overthrow, make war against of seriously injure their own government
Militia – a military force that is comprised of citizen-soldiers in order to provide defense or emergency law enforcement
Martial Law – the imposition of military law over a certain territory
General George Washington
Commander in Chief of Continental Army
John Hancock
Elected President of Continental Congress
“That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.”
Lee’s Resolution
The Committee of Five
ShermanFranklinJeffersonAdams
Livingston
Thomas Jefferson
Chosen to write Declaration by the committee because of his skill as writer as seen in his work A summary view of Rights of the Rights of British America
Jefferson’s inspiration
George Mason’s Virginia Declaration of
Rights
John Locke’s Second Treatise
George Mason’s Virginia Declaration of Rights
“all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights of which...namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety,"
"we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."