1. Ch.6.4 – Declaring Independence

2. 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 =

3. Thomas Paine: Common Sense p. 180

4. Primary Source Reading:
“Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, “ ‘Tis time to part.” Even the distance at which the Almighty had placed England and America is a strong and natural proof that the authority of the one over the other was never the design of heaven.” - Thomas Paine, excerpt from Common Sense
What reasons does Paine state the colonies must break with Britain?
Who might this pamphlet appeal to?

5. Primary Source Reading:
“Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, “ ‘Tis time to part.” Even the distance at which the Almighty had placed England and America is a strong and natural proof that the authority of the one over the other was never the design of heaven.” - Thomas Paine, excerpt from Common Sense
What reasons does Paine state the colonies must break with Britain?
Who might this pamphlet appeal to?

6. Read excerpt from Thomas Paines’ Common Sense and textbook description p. 180:
1. What reasons does he state the colonies must break from Britain?
its unnatural to stay connected – politically, economically, geographically.
2. Who might this pamphlet appeal to?
(the neutral 1/3, the masses, the common people)
3. What are its main points?
(all monarchies are corrupt, all men should be able to vote, there are economic benefits to being free of Britain.)

7. Today’s Target: Section 6.4 p. 177
Explain why Americans declared their independence from Britain

8. Continental Army is formed Second Continental Congress Meets
May 10, 1775
Americans attack
The British at Ft.
Ticonderoga
May 10, 1775
June 17, 1775
1775
Continental Army is formed
Second Continental Congress Meets
British win the Battle of Bunker Hill – suffer large casualties
Washington in command
January 1776
Cannon captured by Americans at Ft. Ticonderoga arrive in Boston
November 1775
Summer 1775
George Washington arrives in Boston to build American forces
July 1775
Benedict Arnold attacks the British in Quebec but fails; hopes to bring Canada in on America’s side
American moderates send Olive Branch petition to King George III

9. Continental Congress authorizes colonies to form their own governments
May 1776
Continental Congress authorizes colonies to form their own governments
March 17, 1776
July 4, 1776
Seven thousand British troops retreat from Boston
Continental Congress votes for independence from Britain
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
1) reasons for separating *
Reasons why it makes sense to be independent
2) taxation without representation
& Loss of representative government
Appeals to the common people
3) People are born with rights that
can’t be taken away.
4) right to overthrow a government

10. America, The Story of Us ~22:oo min