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DO THE FOLLOWING:
• Make sure you have updated your
planner/agenda with the People
assignment and next summatives
• Turn to the page after the OPTICS and
title it Declaring Independence
The Road to RevolutionDeclaring Independence
� Met in Philadelphiabeginning in May 1775
� Formed Continental Army
• Washington chosen to lead
� Washington showed up in his military uniform
� Tallest man at convention – he looked the part
� Authorized printing of paper money to pay troops
� Representatives to the meeting were beginning to act like a government
Second Continental Congress
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Battle of Bunker Hill
� Tension was brewing
in Boston 1775
� Colonial militia had seized Bunker Hill and Breed’s Hill and fortified Breed’s Hill
� Actually fought on Breed’s Hill
Battle of Bunker Hill� William Prescott, “Don’t
Fire until you see the
whites of their eyes”
� Dr. James Warren,
member of the Sons of Liberty, was killed
� English win battle at
huge cost (1,000 killed or wounded)
• Colonial militia was holding its own against
the world’s most
powerful army.
Congress Offers an Olive Branch
• July 1775 Moderate members of the congress
drafted the Olive Branch Petition
– Asked the King to restore harmony between England and the colonies
• The king rejected the offerand sought new ways to
punish the colonies
– Blocked colonial ports and hired German Hessians to fight in colonies
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Siege of Boston • Continental Army surrounded the British
in Boston
• Washington had
artillery capture at Fort Ticonderoga moved to
Dorchester Hieghtsoverlooking Boston
• The Continental Army controlled the high
ground and threatened to bombard the City
• British Gen. Howe withdrew his troops
Thomas Paine’s
“Common Sense”• In 1776 most colonists
wanted to avoid complete
break with England
• Paine ridiculed the “Divine
Right of Kings” and disagreed with economic
reasons for remaining with England
• Common Sense caused more colonists to embrace
the idea of independence from England
Declaring Independence• May 1776 Second
Continental Congress
adopted resolution authorizing each colony to
create its own government
• Richard Henry Lee (VA)
introduced a resolution saying that the colonies
were “free and independent states”
• A committee was appointed to draft a
declaration of independence
Committee that drafted the Declaration
John Adams
Robert Livingston John Adams
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson Roger Sherman
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The Writing of the Declaration of Independence • Thomas Jefferson was chosen to write the declaration
– Excellent writer
– From Virginia
• July 4, 1776 – Congress adopted the Declaration of
Independence
• Based on Natural Rights
philosophy of John Locke
• “Unalienable Rights”
– Life, liberty, and pursuit of
happiness
• John Hancock, president of the congress was the first to sign
Declaring
Independence
The Declaration in Five Parts
• Preamble– “When in the Course of Human events…”
• The Rights of the People– “…We hold these truths to be self evident…”
• List of Grievances– “…He has refused his assent to laws…for the
public good…”
• Efforts to avoid separation– “…We have petitioned for a redress of grievances
in the most humblest terms…”
• Independence Declared– “…These united colonies are, of right ought to be
free and independent states…”