1. EVENTS LEADING TO INDEPENDENCE

2. Today’s Objective: Introduce Chapter 4 – America’s Political Heritage
Heritage – Something handed down from the past

3. DO YOU KNOW THE 13 COLONIES? NAME THEM
New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.

4. Why was the colony of Georgia founded?
To create a military buffer between the other colonies and Spanish led Florida
To create a refuge for poor Englishmen

5. Today’s Objective: Determine what led to the Declaration of Independence
DO NOW:
Read over the passage about the signers of the Declaration of Independence
Answer the reflective questions 1-4.

6. FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR ENDS - 1763

7. After French & Indian War: Parliament levies taxes, mainly on colonial trade goods.

8. BRITISH PARLIAMENT TAXED:
Newspapers
Pamphlets
Almanacs
Official documents
Even decks of playing cards

9. 1774: First Continental Congress pledges to cut off trade with England

10. 1775: Second Continental Congress begins to meet
War for Independence had already started
Congress was to plan strategies for fighting the British
Became the acting government for the colonies
Created an Army, signed treaties, obtained loans

11. 1776: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet entitled Common Sense.
Advocated Independence for American Colonies
Denounced British rule
Up to 600,000 copies were printed
Everything in nature pleads for separation

12. July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence is adopted
We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal . . .

13. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
Open your books to page 106 and follow along.

14. 1777: Continental Congress draws up the Articles of Confederation
First plan of government following the end of the Revolutionary War
Created a loose alliance of 13 new states

15. 1781: States ratify Articles of Confederation