King George III
The French and Indian War
Guerilla Warfare
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
Martial Law – the imposition of military law over a certain
territory
Boycott – the act of voluntarily abstaining from buying
or consuming a certain product
Congress – a meeting of representatives from different
sovereign states
Militia – a military force that is comprised of citizen-soldiers in
order to provide defense or emergency law enforcement
Treason – a citizens act to overthrow, make war against of
seriously injure their own government
Radical – a person whose political principles are to alter
society through revolutionary means
Rebellion – the refusal of obedience to authority
Revolution – a fundamental change in authority that takes place
over a short amount of time usually through violent means
Independence – when a body of citizens are able to practice selfgovernment
Patriot – any persons who showed support for the colonies
independence
The Boston Tea Party
Tar and Feather
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 Adams
Samuel
Adams
Robert Treat Paine
Radicals
New York
John Jay
Moderate
James Duane
Moderate
Pennsylvania
John Dickinson
Joseph Galloway
Reconcilers
Virginia
Patrick Henry
Radical
Colonel George
Washington
Moderate
Richard Henry Lee
Moderate
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 Congress
New 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
Give me Death!!!!”
me Liberty or
Martial Law – the imposition of military law over a certain
territory
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
General George Washington
Commander in Chief of Continental Army
John Hancock
Elected President of Continental Congress
Lee’s Resolution
“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.”
The Committee of Five
Sherman
Franklin
Jefferson
Adams
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."