1. French Indian War – Declaration of Independence Objectives 1.03 – 2.03
UNIT II
French Indian War – Declaration of Independence
Objectives 1.03 – 2.03

2. Objective 1.03: Elaborate on the sources of American Nationalism in Colonial America
The French-Indian War ( )
Causes
Indirect Cause – French and Britain were bitter rivals
Direct Cause—Began as territorial disputes between French & British over Ohio River Valley (a source of rich natural resources like furs)
Results and Consequences
Who won the French-Indian War?
The first time the 13 Colonies fought together under Great Britain to fight the French.
United the colonies against a common enemy (first sense of nationalism for the colonies as a unit!!
Albany Plan of Union (*See next slide)

3. Objective 1.03: Elaborate on the sources of American Nationalism in Colonial America
Treaty of Paris 1763
British most French & Spanish territory east of the Mississippi River
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Native Americans, fearful of losing important resources from Ohio River Valley, rebel against encroaching settlers/colonists
In response, British establish the Proclamation Line stopping colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mts. (to avoid more attacks by Natives)

4. Join or Die!.....Albany Congress
Objective 1.03: Elaborate on the sources of American Nationalism in Colonial America
Join or Die!.....Albany Congress
proposal est. by Benjamin Franklin to unite the colonies under a singular gov’t (supported by the Crown) in response to the French & Indian War

5. Objective 1.03: Elaborate on the sources of American Nationalism in Colonial America

6. Objective 1.03: Elaborate on the sources of American Nationalism in Colonial America

7. Objective 1.04 Distinguish between immediate and long term causes of the Revolutionary War
Mercantilism
Theory of economics in which there is believed to be a finite amount of wealth; thus, the objective is to maintain the highest percentage of wealth in relation to your competitors (get the biggest piece of pie)
Europeans believed that wealth meant POWER (supports a larger military)
Under mercantilism, Britain established colonies to…
Provide cheap natural resources
Provide an automatic and mandatory trading partner for the mother country through its colonists overseas (its colonies were NOT allowed to buy goods from other kingdoms)
Salutary Neglect
While Britain maintained laws that restricted the economic activities of its colonists, Parliament never followed through with actually following through with those laws
The colonists maintained a basic sense of independence and economic freedom as long as they remained profitable for the British Empire

8. Objective 1.04 Distinguish between immediate and long term causes of the Revolutionary War
Immediate Causes: TAXES!!!
Britain needed money to pay for the French- Indian War and the Seven Years War in Europe (War with French in Europe)
Ended its policy of Salutary Neglect
Stamp Act
Sugar Act
Quartering Act
There’s an amendment in the Bill of Rights because of this act)
Currency Act
Tea Act
Townshend Acts
“Intolerable” Acts
places Boston under martial law in response to Boston Tea Party
Colonial Reactions:
Sons of Liberty (economic boycotts; Sam Adams in NYC)
Daughters of Liberty (2nd Non-importation movement/Boycotting)
John Dickenson (“Letters from a farmer” in Pennsylvania)
Boston Massacre
Crispus Attucks : African American, credited as first casualty of American Revolution
Boston Tea Party
dumped $$$ tea in Boston Harbor in response to Tea Act
Lexington & Concord
Loyalists vs. Patriots

9. Objective 2.01: Trace the developments of concepts of self-government from the Mayflower Compact the Declaration of Independence
Iroquois Nation
Mayflower Compact
Olive Branch Petition
Albany Plan of Union
House of Burgesses
1st Continental Congress (1774)
2nd Continental Congress (1775)
Thomas Paine’s Book “Common Sense” (1776)
James Otis (Coined the phrase “No Taxation w/o representation”)
Declaration of Independence

10. 2.02: Associate the ideas of the founding documents with their European origins
Philosophes/Enlightenment Thinkers:
European philosophers who influenced ideas self-government amongst the “United States of America” aka the 13 colonies
Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan – social contract between man and government
John Locke
Two Treatises –natural rights of life, liberty, and private property
“Voltaire”
Freedom of speech
Separation of church and state
Baron de Montesquieu
Separation of power
Checks and balances

11. Supreme Court Building & Capitol Building
2.02: Associate the ideas of the founding documents with their European origins
Supreme Court Building & Capitol Building

12. Objective 2.03: Analyze the Declaration of Independence as an expression of self-government
Written by Thomas Jefferson & signed by all 13 colonies on……??
The Declaration of Independence was a list of 27 grievances (complaints) against King George III starting with “He has refused, forbidden, etc….”
It declared the 13 colonies would no longer be under British rule due to lack of representation in British Parliament
Even though the American 13 Colonies were taxed the least out of all of the Crown’s subjects, we still complained
It was derived from the European Philosophes (John Locke in particular—ideology of self-government)

13. Objective 2.03: Analyze the Declaration of Independence as an expression of self-government
Preamble to the Declaration of Independence
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness…”