2.2: Independence & the American
Revolution
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 Follow
along in the student packet:
“Content students MUST KNOW to be
successful on the GHSGT” (pg. 37-38)
 The
American Revolution was
inspired by the Enlightenment:
 John Locke—all men are born with
natural rights that cannot be taken
away & citizens can revolt from
tyrannical gov’ts
 Montesquieu—power should not be
in the hands of one king
 Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
argued for colonial independence
The Declaration of Independence
Declaration of
Independence
4 1776
• IN CONGRESS, JULY __,
The _____________
Independence Declaration of the
thirteen united States of America
• When in the Course of human events it
becomes necessary for one people to
___________
the political bands which have
dissolve
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
• We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men
equal that they are endowed by their
are created ______,
Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among
these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of ________.
happiness
— That to secure these rights, Governments are
instituted among Men, deriving their just powers
from the consent of the _______________,
— That
governed
whenever any Form of Government becomes
right
destructive of these ends, it is the _________
of the
People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new
Government, laying its foundation on such
principles and organizing its powers in such form, as
to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety
and Happiness.
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They needed to pay
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fight the threat from
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Money was needed
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social programs.
Money was needed
to pay for Native
American territory.
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