1. American Revolution Day 4
Look back over your notes for the Enlightenment. Which philosophe’s ideas had the strongest impact on the US Government?

2. Setting the Stage

3. The Settlement of America
Europeans first colonize from s
Joint-stock companies
Investors raise money to establish a colony
—England had 13 colonies

4. Economics & Government in America
Mutual trade and profit
Salutary Neglect
England’s policy of avoiding strict enforcement of laws
Self-Government
Colonial assemblies
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Fun Fact: Salutary means “beneficial”

5. Causes

6. The French & Indian War (1754-1763)
1754: England and France went fight over territory
1763: England won
Treaty of Paris, 1763
Gave England all French lands east of the Mississippi River
War left England with debt

7. Salutary Neglect is Over
Britain taxes American colonists
“No taxation without representation”

8. Wait…how well do we know the American Revolution?
Conflict
Wait…how well do we know the American Revolution?

9. Tensions Escalate

10. Result of Tensions Townshend Acts Boston Massacre Tea Act
Result—No taxation without representation
Boston Massacre
Result—first violence colonists got behind
Tea Act
Result—Intolerable Acts
Intolerable Acts
First Continental Congress—colonial leaders draft declaration of colonial rights
Lexington and Concord
Marked beginning of Revolution

11. The American Philosophes
American used Enlightenment ideas to protest British abuses
Ideas helped declare independence
Enlightenment ideas fuel conflict

12. On July 4, 1776 Americans submit the Declaration of Independence
Formal Break from King George III
Symbolic Execution

13. What ideas or principles do you see in both documents?
Two Treaties of Government
Declaration of Independence
33a - explain the language, organization, and intellectual sources of the Declaration of Independence including the writings of John Locke and Montesquieu, and the role of Thomas Jefferson

16. Outcome

17. End of the War Battle of Yorktown Colonists win!
Many patriots in countryside
French alliance
Spirit of ‘76
Revolution lasted from 1765 to 1783
Battle of Yorktown

18. Treaty of Paris Treaty of Paris, 1783 Granted US independence
Gave US all lands east of Miss. R.

19. New Government Created a federal system
National gov separate from states
Power in states
No monarch
President George Washington

20. What makes this “Revolutionary”?

21. What makes this “Revolutionary”?
Imperial monarchy no monarchy
Revolutionary spirit is formed by Enlightenment
Outcome—not very revolutionary
Property Rights
White elites remained in power
Equality for all?
“All men are created equal”

22. Homework
Read “Causes of the French Revolution”
Answer questions