Day 26 Birth of a RepublicWarm Up: Deaf Women’s Courtship

Objective: Compare and Contrast the American Revolution as either an aberration or model of its time

Standard: 10:1.3 and 10:2.1

 

The American Colonies• 1700- 250 thousand by

1770- 2.15 million• Colonist had lived

there for 150 years- colonial identity

• Navigation acts- Tariffs on foreign goods, trade restrictions

• Impact of French and Indian war- further restrictions

Build up to Independence

• Problems: War Benefit vs. Debt

• Stamp Act: Wills, Deeds, Newspapers, and other printed materials

• No representation in Parliament…therefore until then no direct taxes

Hostility

• Repeal of Stamp Act

• Boston Tea Party- Closed ports and occupied

• Continental Congress Formed

• 1775 Lexington Mass.- troops vs. militiaman

Enlightenment Influence• Patrick Henry, Benjamin

Franklin and John Adams – use enlightenment ideas to gain support of independence movement

• “…that to secure these rights, government are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

• Declaration of Independence

Thomas Paine- Common Sense“ But where, say some, is the king of America? I’ll tell

you, friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the royal brute of Great Britain…Let a day be solemnly set a part for proclaiming the charter; let it be brought forth placed on the divine law, the word of God; let crown be placed theron, by which the world may know, that so far that as we approve of monarchy, that in America THE LAW IS KING. For as in absolute government the king is law, so in free countries the law ought to Be king, and there ought to be no other”

Victory• Overconfident British

Leadership

• Distance, Time, Money

• Louis XVI (France) – Pay Back.

• Lafayette and Von Stuben training

New Government

• First Government- Articles of Confederation= weak fed.

• Constitution- 1787

• Federalism – Federal, State and Local Power

• Enlightenment- Locke (Consent) Montesquie (Separation of Power) Rousseau ( Elections), Voltaire (free speech, religion), Beccaria ( Bill of rights)

Summary Questions

1) Put these events in order – a) The repeal of the stamp act b) The Bill of Rights c) French and Indian War d) 2nd Continental Congress

2) Who was the main writer of the Declaration of Independence?

3) The first US government was based on what document?

4) What allowed the US to win their independence over a more powerful Great Britain?