1. Revolution of the Few?

2. Romanticized View Paul Revere’s Midnight ride
“Give me liberty or give me death”
Heroic freezing men at Valley Forge
But what’s behind these men and stories?

3. Our Leaders George Washington John Adams John Jay Ben Franklin
Thomas Jefferson

4. Ulterior Motives
Economic advantage rather than patriotism (goods were in great demand throughout the world)
Coerced others to help through propaganda, etc. (Boston “massacre”)

5. Civil War? Many Loyalists Ways of Persuasion Gentry Rebel militia
Tarred and feathered

6. New Republic No women, slaves, immigrants No poor people
Wealthy, landowning aristocratic males
Feared giving vote to common people (Mob)

7. Questions
Did the leaders of the American Revolution act out of pure self-interest or were they true patriots?
Was the set up of the new government liberal or hypocritical considering the time period?
Was the American Revolution truly a Revolution of the few?