1. Revolution reading guides
While reading use the following 3 slides to guide your reading!
The first two selections are from the Zinn Text, the last is from the “Americans” Text.

2. Backgound--Events leading to the Revolution!
BACKGROUND: Read Zinn Text “Tyranny is Tyranny”
The ideas of the Enlightenment & specifically the writings of John Locke.
Social Contract!
Colonial Discontent …18 uprisings & 6 black rebellions…….why?
Local elites (like James Otis and
Samuel Adams)
Taxation…without…..

3. Tyranny is tyranny…. 1763—French and Indian war (7 year war)
1760—local elites stir up the rebellion
1766—regulators….
1774—creation of continental congress..step toward independence
1765: traditional resentment toward elites refocused on Brittan.
April 1775: Lexington and Concord

4. More Background..Revolutions!
Read Zinn Text “Revolutions.”
John Adams—33%...20%...support rev
French help ensures victory—Ben Franklin
French and Indian war
Local elites gain from revolution, not common persons
Constitution is an elite document
Founding fathers kept the social balance…

5. The text!—pp. 37-39 French and Indian War—Ohio River Valley
France vs. Brittan
Indians side with French as “the lesser of 2 evils”
Proclamation line—1763