REVOLUTIONARY IDEALS
WHAT WE BELIEVE
1.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes
necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands
which have connected them with another, and to
assume among the powers of the earth, the separate
and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of
Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the
opinions of mankind requires that they should declare
the causes which impel them to the separation.:
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
ACCORDING TO THIS, WHAT TWO THINGS HAVE
DETERMINED THAT AMERICA SHOULD BE FREE?
When in the Course of human events, it becomes
necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands
which have connected them with another, and to
assume among the powers of the earth, the separate
and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of
Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the
opinions of mankind requires that they should declare
the causes which impel them to the separation.:
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?
IF RIGHTS COME FROM GOD
OR ARE NATURAL, THEN IT IS
WRONG AND UN-NATURAL FOR
GOVERNMENT TO TAKE THEM AWAY
IF GOVERNMENT GIVES THEM,
THEN GOVERNMENT
CAN TAKE THEM AWAY.
2. We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
Do you agree that the “Pursuit of Happiness” is a right all people
should have?
Can you name a way that some people would pursue happiness that
you would be against?
Name a way that you
would pursue happiness.
3.
-That to secure these rights, Governments are
instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of
Government becomes destructive of these end, sit is the
Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute
new Government: DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
IS OUR CURRENT GOVERNMENT (LOCAL, STATE, OR
NATIONAL) DOING ANYTHING THAT LIMITS LIBERTY?
IF SO, IS IT TIME TO ABOLISH OUR GOVERNMENT
AND CREATE A NEW ONE?
4.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long
established should not be changed for light and transient causes;
and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more
disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right
themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing
invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under
absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such
Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security:
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
NAME TWO THINGS THE BRITISH DID THAT WOULD
CONVICE THE COLONISTS THAT BRITAIN WANTED TO
TAKE AWAY THEIR RIGHTS.
5. That we do hereby declare our- selves a free
and independent people; that we are, and of
right ought to be, a sovereign and self-governing
people under the power of God and the General
Congress : “MECKLENBURG DECLARATION OF
INDEPEDENCE”
ACCORDING TO THIS, THE PEOPLE OF
MECKLENBURG COUNTY NC ACCEPTED THE
AUTHORITY OF ONLY TWO POWERS. WHAT
WERE THEY?
5. That we do hereby declare our- selves a
free and independent people; that we are, and
of right ought to be, a sovereign and selfgoverning people under the power of God and
the General Congress : “MECKLENBURG
DECLARATION OF INDEPEDENCE”
6.
Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the
implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments
to which kings resort. I ask, gentlemen, sir, what means
this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to
submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible
motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this
quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of
navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are
meant for us: SPEECH BY PATRICK HENRY, VIRGINIA
PATRIOT
WHAT DOES PATRICK HENRY SEE THAT CONVINCES HIM THE KING IS GOING
TO FORCE AMERICA TO SUBMIT?
Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the
implements of war and subjugation; the last
arguments to which kings resort. I ask,
gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if
its purpose be not to force us to submission?
Can gentlemen assign any other possible
motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in
this quarter of the world, to call for all this
accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir,
she has none. They are meant for us: SPEECH
BY PATRICK HENRY, VIRGINIA PATRIOT
8.
If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve
inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have
been so long contending, if we mean not basely to
abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so
long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves
never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest
shall be obtained, we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must
fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all
that is left us!: SPEECH BY PATRICK HENRY
ACCORDING TO PATRICK HENRY, WHAT IS THE
ONLY WAY TO BE FREE?
8.
If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve
inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have
been so long contending, if we mean not basely to
abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so
long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves
never to abandon until the glorious object of our
contest shall be obtained, we must fight! I repeat it, sir,
we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of
Hosts is all that is left us!: SPEECH BY PATRICK HENRY
IS HE RIGHT?
9.
Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of
those means which the God of nature hath placed in our
power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of
liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are
invincible by any force which our enemy can send against
us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There
is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations;
and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The
battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the
active, the brave: PATRICK HENRY
ACCORDING TO HENRY, WHY DID WE HAVE A CHANCE AGAINST THE
STRONGEST NATION ON EARTH?
9.
Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of
those means which the God of nature hath placed in our
power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy
cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we
possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can
send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our
battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the
destinies of nations; and who will raise up friends to
fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the
strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave:
PATRICK HENRY
10. I know not what course others may take;
but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
PATRICK HENRY
REWRITE THIS QUOTATION WITHOUT USING ANY OF THE WORDS PATRICK HENRY
USED.
THE CHOICE OF SOMEONE ELSE IS UNKNOWN
TO MY MIND,WITHOUT FREEDOM I WOULD
RATHER BE KILLED.
11. This new World hath been the asylum for the
persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from
EVERY PART of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from
the tender embraces of the mother, but from the
cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of England,
that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants
from home, pursues their descendants still.: THOMAS PAINE
ACCORDING TO PAINE, WHY DID PEOPLE COME TO
AMERICA?
FOR CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
12. That British Fleets and Armies have been and
still are daily employed in destroying the People and
committing the most horrid devastations on the
Country. That Governors in different Colonies have
declared Protection to Slaves who should imbrue
their Hands in the Blood of their Masters.:HALIFAX
RESOLVES- PASSED BY THE COLONIAL LEGISLATURE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
Here, NC complains about things the British
have done. What is one complaint that
shows the colonists might not really believe
that “All Men are created equal”?
12. That British Fleets and Armies have been
and still are daily employed in destroying the
People and committing the most horrid
devastations on the Country. That Governors in
different Colonies have declared Protection to
Slaves who should imbrue their Hands in the
Blood of their Masters.:HALIFAX RESOLVES- PASSED BY THE
COLONIAL LEGISLATURE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
BRITISH GOVERNORS WERE PROMISING FREEDOM TO
SLAVES WHO WOULD REVOLT AGAINST PATRIOT MASTERS.
13. Resolved that the delegates for this
Colony in the Continental Congress be
impowered to concur with the delegates of
the other Colonies in declaring
Independency, and forming foreign Alliances:
HALIFAX RESOLVES
WHAT DOES THIS QUOTATION SAY THAT NORTH
CAROLINA FAVORS?
13. Resolved that the delegates for this
Colony in the Continental Congress be
impowered to concur with the delegates
of the other Colonies in declaring
Independency, and forming foreign
Alliances: HALIFAX RESOLVES
“WHAT TOM SAID”
ON JULY 04, 1776,
THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS PASSED
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
Which declared that the 13 former
Colonies were now the independence
“UNITED STATES OF AMERICA”
It also stated our chief
REVOLUTIONARY IDEALS.
AMERICAN
REVOLUTIONARY
HEROES