1. Spreading the word… Enlistment An army Public support State militias
Continental Army
Women/African Americans
Public support
Pictures – Join, or Die (unite, create a common enemy)
Literature – Common Sense (put the situation in laymen’s terms)
Authority/Leadership – Declaration of Independence (government providing an explanation of why we are fighting)

2. Common Sense
Philadelphia
January 1776

3. Author…Thomas Paine (ouch)
Writes as a common person (anonymously) to the common man
“There is something very absurd in supporting a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.”
What is Paine saying?
Citizens, not Kings and Queens, should make laws
Why is this a bold statement?

4. Abuse of power by the King
A new
way 2
Abuse of power by the King =
TYRANNY

5. Colonial dreams…
economic
freedom 4

6. Declaration of Independence
What is it?

7. Authors…Committee of Five
Robert Livingston
Ben Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Roger Sherman
John Adams

8. Thomas Jefferson All men are created equal…
Youngest of the committee (33)
Virginia delegate
Drafts a version that includes elements from previous documents/writings over a period of three weeks
Committee/CC revisions
Acceptance July 4, 1776
56 Signatures: John Hancock

9. Five Parts Introduction Preamble
This section will declare the causes that makes this document necessary
Preamble
States our self-evident principles (explains what is innately ours as a human)
States that a government is established to protect those rights/principles

10. Five Parts Body One Body Two Conclusion
Lists the abuses that King George III has imposed on the colonists (violations of those rights)
Body Two
Discusses the attempts at peace and reconciliation
Conclusion
States colonial freedom

11. What truths are self-evident?
created
All
Unalienable (undeniable) Rights

12. What truths are self-evident?
created to
these ‘s
When govt. becomes destructive of these rights…
have
the
create a new 2

13. Declaration of Independence
Stated the conditions that made the Declaration of Independence necessary
Described the basic rights of people
Proved the conditions existed in Colonial America (basic rights being violated)
Ends all allegiance to Great Britain