King George III. The French and Indian War Guerilla Warfare

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

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 AdamsSamuel Adams

Robert Treat Paine

Radicals

New York

John JayModerate

James DuaneModerate

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."