1. The American Revolution
AP US

2. 1763-1775 1763 – French and Indian War Ends 1764 – Sugar Act
1765 – Stamp Act & Reaction
1766 – Repeal of Stamp Act & Declaratory Act
1767 – Townshend Taxes
1770 – Boston Massacre
1772 – Committees of Correspondence
1773 – Tea Act, Boston Tea Party
1774 – Intolerable (Coercive) Acts
1774 – First Continental Congress

3. First Continental Congress - 1774
Sets up “The Association” to boycott goods
Demands that England hear the colonists grievances and repeal the Intolerable Acts

4. Lexington & Concord

5. Patriots vs. Loyalists (Farmer Refuted)

6. Second Continental Congress
Organized Army
Hired G. Washington
Declaration of Causes
Olive Branch Petition
You’ll Be Back Song

7. Thomas Paine: Common Sense

8. Charles Inglis: Rebuttal to Common Sense

9. Discussion Question
Compare OR contrast the point of view of Thomas Paine with the point of view of Charles Inglis.

10. Context of D of I: 1774-1776 First Continental Congress
Lexington and Concord
Second Continental Congress
Common Sense
Declaration of Independence

11. Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence

12. Reading Questions
What is each author’s perspective on the purpose of the Declaration of Independence? (Claim and evidence)
Summarize the introduction to the Declaration of Independence in your own words.
Decide if the grievance applies to “only the rich (R)” or “all colonists (A)” – label each part on your notecard
Based on the grievances, do support the idea that the Declaration of Independence was done for ideological or selfish reasons? Use at least two pieces of evidence.

13. Reading Questions
1) He has refused to pass, and forbidden his governors to pass, important and necessary laws. 2) He has broken up certain legislatures that opposed him, and refused to let others be elected 3) He has refused to establish courts of justice, and has made judges dependent on him for their jobs and salaries. 4) He has sent swarms of British officers to harass our people and eat our food. 5) He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures.

14. Reading Questions
6) For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world; 7) For imposing taxes on us without our consent 8) For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury; 9) He is waging war against us; 10) He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. 11) He has started fights among us and has also forced us to live near merciless Indian savages.

15. Practice Argumentation
Was the Declaration of Independence written for idealistic or selfish reasons? T – Topic/Assertion E – Evidence (2 examples) A – Analysis – Make your point

16. Impact of the Declaration
Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789)
Haiti (1804)
Declaration of Sentiments (1848)
South Carolina Declaration of Secession (1860)
Vietnamese Declaration of Independence (1945)

17. The War
American Strengths: military leadership, diplomatic leadership, French help, motivation
American Weaknesses: disorganized military, no real central government, money, supplies, colonial divisions
British Strengths: population, professional army, mercenaries, Loyalists, Native Americans
British Weaknesses: political divisions, military leadership, distance to America, size of America

18. Battle of Saratoga

19. French Alliance (Guns & Ships)

20. Battle of Yorktown

21. Treaty of Paris

22. The American victory in the Revolutionary War was
Discuss
Support, modify, or refute the following statement with historical evidence.
The American victory in the Revolutionary War was
“almost a miracle.”
(George Washington used that phrase to describe the US victory)

23. Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789)
Therefore the National Assembly recognizes and proclaims, in the presence and under the auspices of the Supreme Being, the following rights of man and of the citizen: Articles: 1. Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be founded only upon the general good. 2. The aim of all political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression. 4. Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights. These limits can only be determined by law. 6. Law is the expression of the general will. Every citizen has a right to participate personally, or through his representative, in its foundation. It must be the same for all, whether it protects or punishes. All citizens, being equal in the eyes of the law, are equally eligible to all dignities and to all public positions and occupations, according to their abilities, and without distinction except that of their virtues and talents.

24. Haitian Declaration of Independence (1804)
It is not enough to have expelled the barbarians who have bloodied our land for two centuries; it is not enough to have restrained those ever-evolving factions that one after another mocked the specter of liberty that France dangled before you. We must, with one last act of national authority, forever assure the empire of liberty in the country of our birth; we must take any hope of re-enslaving us away from the inhuman government that for so long kept us in the most humiliating torpor. In the end we must live independent or die.

25. Declaration of Sentiments (1848)
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

26. South Carolina Declaration of Secession (1860)
And now the State of South Carolina having resumed her separate and equal place among nations, deems it due to herself, to the remaining United States of America, and to the nations of the world, that she should declare the immediate causes which have led to this act. We, therefore, the People of South Carolina, by our delegates in Convention assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, have solemnly declared that the Union heretofore existing between this State and the other States of North America, is dissolved, and that the State of South Carolina has resumed her position among the nations of the world, as a separate and independent State; with full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.

27. Vietnamese Declaration of Independence (1945)
"All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." This immortal statement was made in the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America in In a broader sense, this means: All the peoples on the earth are equal from birth, all the peoples have a right to live, to be happy and free. The Declaration of the French Revolution made in 1791 on the Rights of Man and the Citizen also states: "All men are born free and with equal rights, and must always remain free and have equal rights." Nevertheless, for more than eighty years, the French imperialists, abusing the standard of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, have violated our Fatherland and oppressed our fellow­ citizens. They have acted contrary to the ideals of humanity and justice. For these reasons, we, members of the Provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, solemnly declare to the world that Vietnam has the right to be a free and independent country-and in fact is so already. The entire Vietnamese people are determined to mobilize all their physical and mental strength, to sacrifice their lives and property in order to safeguard their independence and liberty.