42 Ideas Help Start a Revolution 42 Ideas Help Start a Revolution Main Idea Essential Question What is the difference between declaring independence and being independent Objectives The Debate Begins ID: 244237
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The War For Independence
4.2 - Ideas Help Start a RevolutionSlide2
4.2 – Ideas Help Start a Revolution
Main Idea
Essential Question
What is the difference between declaring independence and being independent?Slide3
ObjectivesSlide4
The Debate Begins
2nd
Continental Congress
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Divided colonial representatives over whether to go to war. Debate took place over whether to raise an army:
Those for – Americans need the capacity to defend itself from BritainThose against – Stepping up armed resistance jeopardizes reconciliationJohn Adams –
Idea radical, strongly opposed by delegates such as John DickinsonEventually the Congress elects to prepare itself for war, but to not declare independenceGeorge Washington -Slide5
Philadelphia State HouseSlide6
Hovering Between war and peace
Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage decides to strike against newly formed Continental Army encamped on Breed’s Hill outside of Charlestown
Battle of Bunker Hill
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British suffer from over confidence, failed to use ground cover as effectively as the Colonists
Casualty – a soldier that has been killed or wounded to the point that they are unable to fightSlide7
Battle of bunker hillSlide8
Changing Public Opinion
Olive Branch Petition –
King George rejects Petition and orders a Naval blockade of the American Coast. Considered to be too little too late
Common Sense
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500,000 copies were sold, widely distributed amongst elites and commoners
Eased Colonists’ concerns that they needed British rule of law to surviveSlide9
Quote from Common Sense
“No man was a warmer wisher for a reconciliation than myself, before the fatal 19th of April 1775, but the moment the event of that day was made known, I rejected the hardened, sullen tempered Pharaoh of Britain forever… the wretch, that with the pretend title of Father of his people can unfeelingly hear of their slaughter, and composedly sleep with their blood on his soul.”
Thomas Paine, 1775Slide10
The patriots declare independence
By early 1776, North Carolina and Virginia had declared independence
Thomas Jefferson
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Jefferson was inspired by British philosopher John Locke and his idea of natural rights
Jefferson regretted having to eliminate a passage that condemned the slave trade, despite being a slave owner himself
Natural Rights –Revolutionary concept born in the Enlightenment, and expanded upon in the the Declaration of Independence
July 4th 1776, the colonies voted unanimously to accept the Declaration of Independence and create the United States of AmericaSlide11
Declaring Independence
Declaration of Independence
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Ideas of America natural rights and democratic values are born
Declaration stated that “All men are created equal,” rejecting the European notion of Aristocracy and birth right
Initially referred to white men, but the definition is expanded
Social Contract
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Signing of Declaration of IndependenceSlide13
Reading declaration to continental ArmySlide14
Ideas of the declarationSlide15
Critica
l Thinking
The Declaration of Independence drove America to a point of new return.
What was the argument of people who were reluctant to declare independence? What did people argue who were
in favor?