The American Revolution

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List 4 events leading up to the American Revolution

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French & Indian war -->end of salutary neglect because Britain wants colonies to pay taxes to pay for Britain's war debt-->Stamp Act & Tea Act --->Colonists are mad and say “No taxation without representation!”

Mercantilism-colonies taken advantage of economically

Britain placed limits on individual rights-Proclamation of 1763

Images of the American Revolution

Symbolism of the RattlesnakeFirst political cartoon

by Benjamin Franklin13 colonies need to

join together to fight and break away from British rule

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The first flag ever carried into battle by the United States Marine Corps during the American Revolution.



The timber rattlesnake and eastern diamondback rattlesnake both populate the geographical areas of the original thirteen colonies.

No taxation without representation!

Boston Tea PartyOpposing the Tea Act.Tea Act: Colonists could only buy tea from the

British East India CompanyColonists threw Tea into Boston Harbor

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

Published in 1776, Common Sense challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy.

The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain.

In relation to the population of the Colonies at that time, it had the largest sale and circulation of any book in American history

Common Sense presented the American colonists with an argument for freedom from British rule at a time when the question of independence was still undecided.

Paine’s Common Sense

"Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil."

Too much government =loss of freedomToo little government= loss of society

1. What is this political cartoon of 1754 trying to say? What influential

document does it go along with?



PART I: Image Analysis This is a picture of the Boston Massacre in 1770. The British are on the right with the guns. This picture was drawn by Paul Revere a member of the Sons of Liberty.2.From this picture, who is being made to look like the villain?3.If you were a colonist how would seeing this picture make you feel about the British?

PART I: Image Analysis 4. What event do you think this is a picture of?5.What group was responsible for this event? Why did they do it?

PART I: Image Analysis This is a picture of Thomas Paine’s pamphlet and a picture of a statue of Thomas Paine.6. What was the main idea of Thomas Paine’s pamphlet?

American Revolution

Starts in 1775 with the Battles at Lexington and Concord

“The shot heard round the world”The war ended with an American victory in

October 1781.With the Treaty of Paris in 1783 the United

States officially wins independence!25,000 American soldiers killed

Contribution of Women: Women boycotted

British goods, spied on the British, followed armies as they marched,

Did the washing, cooking, and tending for soldiers, delivering secret messages,

In a few cases like Deborah Samson, fought disguised as men.



Contribution of African Americans: Free blacks in the North

and South fought on both sides of the Revolution, but most fought for the colonial rebels.

Crispus Attucks, who died in a conflict in Boston in 1770, is considered the first martyr of the American Revolution.

Both sides offered freedom and re-settlement to slaves who were willing to fight for them, especially targeting slaves whose owners supported the opposing cause.

Declaration of IndependenceJuly 4,1776

Statement of independence from Britain “Committee of Five” to draft the

declarationThomas JeffersonBenjamin FranklinJohn AdamsRobert LivingstonRoger Sherman



Emergence of an American Identity

After the Treaty of Paris, the colonies were no longer colonies of England, but were the United States of America.

People started to form an American identity What is John Crevecoeur saying about who an

American is in his article What is An American from 1783?

Which parts do you agree with? Which do you disagree with?

American Identity Alexis de Tocqueville writes Democracy in America in 1835 and says

this about America:

Money & Equality of property "...I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on

men's hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the theory of permanent equality of property."

Religion "the religious atmosphere of the country was the first thing that struck me

on arrival in the United States." Abolition & Revolution

"If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil. That is to say, it will not be the equality of social conditions but rather their inequality which may give rise thereto."

Men & Women "In America, more than anywhere else in the world, care has been taken

constantly to trace clearly distinct spheres of action for the two sexes, and both are required to keep in step, but along paths that are never the same."

What Shapes our American Identity?

ClassRaceReligionGenderOthers?

Write from your own perspective…

What shapes your identity as an American? How has your race, class, gender, or religion molded your view of America or your view of yourself as an American?

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