1. Time Table leading up to the Revolutionary War
Tea Act Boston Tea Party
BTP Intolerable Acts
IA 1st Continental Congress
1st CC boycott British goods, prepare local militias, Declaration of Rights
D of R Lexington/Concord – shot heard ‘round the world
SHRW 2nd Continental Congress

2. Time Table leading up to the Revolutionary War
2nd CC Continental Army (GW), Olive Branch Petition
OBP It’s War or Peace
W or P Efforts for UNITY (enlistment, public support – Join, or Die, Common Sense, Declaration of Independence)

3. How do we unite? Unify? Come together? Rally support?

4. Unify? Come together? Rally support?
Celebrities
Pictures
Facts – relatable/imaginable
Show something familiar
Get everyday/ordinary people to be an active participant (Pink Day)

5. Were most Americans in
support of the war?
Raising an Army PP

6. The works that fostered UNITY
Join or Die
Common Sense
Declaration of Independence

7. Spreading the word… WE NEED ALL THE HELP WE CAN GET!!!! Enlistment
An army
State militias
Continental Army
Women/African Americans
Public support and Political Action
Pictures – Join, or Die (unite, create a common enemy)
Literature – Common Sense (put the situation in laymen’s terms)
Authority/Leadership – Declaration of Independence (government providing an explanation of why we are fighting)

8. But how do you get everyone on the same page?
JOIN, or DIE
JOIN, or DIE Q&A – Kids Info Bits

10. Join, or Die Application
If we (who?) do not come together (unite/ join) against _______________, then our hopes and dreams of _________________ will die.
French and Indian War
Revolutionary War
Why a picture/illustration?
Why a snake?

11. What is this cartoon all about?
1. What is this a picture of?
Snake
2. What pieces makes up the snake?
colonies/states
Which colonies are mentioned?
South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, New England
3. What is the purpose of this cartoon?
Present a unified front against any enemy
Rally support for revolt/breaking free from Great Britain

12. Common Sense
Philadelphia
January 1776

13. Author…Thomas Paine (ouch)
Writes as a common person (anonymously) to the common man

14. 4 “chapters” of CS
Of the Origin and Design of Government in General, with Concise Remarks on the English Constitution
Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession
Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs
Of the Present Ability of America: with some Miscellaneous Reflections

15. Author…Thomas Paine (ouch)
Writes as a common person (anonymously) to the common man
“There is something very absurd in supporting a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.”
What is Paine saying?
Citizens, not Kings and Queens, should make laws
Why is this a bold statement?

16. A new
way 2 @
King/Crown
Authority

17. Bottom line Paine discusses the basic colonial dreams…
economic
freedom
A government/institution that defends its people/citizens
that
its

18. Author…Thomas Paine (ouch)
Writes as a common person (anonymously) to the common man
“There is something very absurd in supporting a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.”
What is Paine saying?
Citizens, not Kings and Queens, should make laws
Why is this a bold statement?

19. Declaration of Independence
What is it?

20. Authors…Committee of Five
Robert Livingston
Ben Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Roger Sherman
John Adams

21. Thomas Jefferson All men are created equal…
Youngest of the committee (33)
Virginia delegate
Drafts a version over a period of three weeks
Committee/CC revisions
Acceptance July 4, 1776
56 Signatures: John Hancock

22. Five Parts
Introduction – We have our reasons for this declaration, they are explained below
Preamble – outlines our self-evident principles and government’s role relative to those principles
Body One – here are all the ways you and your government failed and/or abused us
Body Two – here are all the ways in which we tried to work together with you and make peace
Conclusion – We are now, officially our own nation

23. Declaration of Independence
Locate and label (with a post-it)
The FIVE parts of the D of I – place a post it with the title of each section at the START of each section
The truths we believe to be self-evident
“all men are created equal”
“Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”
One grievance (complaint) against the King
Explain what that grievance is in your OWN words
Quartering of soldiers in colonial homes
Depriving colonists of a trial by jury
The exact sentence that says the United States are officially independent/free.

24. Declaration of Independence
Locate and label (with a post-it)
The truths we believe to be self-evident
“all men are created equal”
“Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”
One grievance (complaint) against the King
Explain what it is in your OWN words
Quartering of soldiers in colonial homes
Depriving colonists of a trial by jury
The exact sentence that says the United States are officially independent/free.

25. What truths are self-evident?
created
All
Unalienable (undeniable) Rights

26. What truths are self-evident?
created to
these ‘s
When govt. becomes destructive of these rights…
have
the
create a new 2

27. Full fledged war is upon the Patriots
While NOT a declaration of war, GB views this is such

28. but still not really physically prepared
More unified than ever… (Join, or Die, Common Sense, Declaration of Independence) emotionally charged and together
but still not really physically prepared

29. Five Parts
Introduction – We have our reasons for this declaration, they are explained below
Preamble – outlines our self-evident principles and government’s role relative to those principles
Body One – here are all the ways you and your government failed and/or abused us
Body Two – here are all the ways in which we tried to work together with you and make peace
Conclusion – We are now, officially our own nation

30. Five Parts Introduction Preamble
This section will declare the causes that makes this document necessary (we have our reasons to write such a document)
Preamble
States our self-evident principles (explains what is innately ours as a human) (because we are human we have the right to life, liberty and property (pursuit of happiness)
States that a government is established to protect those rights/principles (your GB government should have protected those rights)

31. Five Parts Body One Body Two Conclusion
Lists the abuses that King George III has imposed on the colonists (violations of those rights) (here is a list of all the times you haven’t protected our rights)
Body Two
Discusses the attempts at peace and reconciliation (Declaration of Rights, Olive Branch Petition) (even after all of these violations, we still tried to make peace offerings)
Conclusion
States colonial freedom (we are now free; states not colonies, but not just states we are a United States of America)

32. Five Parts Introduction Preamble
This section will declare the causes that makes this document necessary (we have our reasons to write such a document)
Preamble
States our self-evident principles (explains what is innately ours as a human) (because we are human we have the right to life, liberty and property (pursuit of happiness)
States that a government is established to protect those rights/principles (your GB government should have protected those rights)

33. Five Parts Body One Body Two Conclusion
Lists the abuses that King George III has imposed on the colonists (violations of those rights) (here is a list of all the times you haven’t protected our rights)
Body Two
Discusses the attempts at peace and reconciliation (Declaration of Rights, Olive Branch Petition) (even after all of these violations, we still tried to make peace offerings)
Conclusion
States colonial freedom (we are now free; states not colonies, but not just states we are a United States of America)

34. Declaration of Independence
Stated the conditions that made the Declaration of Independence necessary
Described the basic rights of people
Proved the conditions existed in Colonial America (basic rights being violated)
Ends all allegiance to Great Britain