1. 4.2, IDEAS HELP START A REVOLUTION

2. First Continental Congress
Sept., 1774 – Philadelphia
Key delegates: John Adams, Sam Adams, John Dickinson, Patrick Henry, George Washington
Accomplishments: Boycott of British goods and a call for a Second Continental Congress

3. Carpenter’s Hall

4. Second Continental Congress
May, 1775 – Philadelphia
Radicals: John Adams
Moderates: John Dickinson
Accomplishments:
Continental Army established, with Washington as commander
Olive Branch Petition (rejected by King George III)

5. Battle of Bunker Hill June 17, 1775
Massachusetts Militia is defeated, but the British suffer high casualties (1,000+)
Pyrrhic victory for the British
Col. Prescott: “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”

7. Bunker Hill Monument

8. The Death of General Warren

9. Common Sense
Written by Thomas Paine (anonymously published – Jan. 1776)
500,000 copies sold
Attacks the monarchy
Monarchy breeds war
Hereditary succession is absurd
Distance (4 months for an answer)
Commerce

10. Thomas Paine

11. Common Sense
“Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part.”
“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.”
“The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.”

12. Independence Hall

13. Declaration of Independence
“these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States” – Richard Henry Lee (VA)
Committee of Five: Thomas Jefferson (VA), John Adams (MA), Benjamin Franklin (PA), Roger Sherman (CT) Robert Livingston (NY)

14. The Committee of Five

15. Declaration of Independence
John Locke’s influence
Second Treatise on Government
“Life, liberty, property”
Natural rights
Social contract

16. Declaration of Independence
Preamble
“When in the course of human events…”
Basic rights
“We hold these truths to be self evident…”
British wrongs
“He has…”
Call for an independent nation
“These United Colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent states.”

17. Loyalists
Loyalists wished to remain loyal to Great Britain and King George III (KG3)
Typically wealthy
20-30% of colonial population
New York, Georgia, South Carolina
African Americans….?
Native Americans ….?