1. AP United States History Unit 2
Birth of a Nation
AP United States History
Unit 2

2. Washington commemorates his service as a colonial militia colonel under British General Braddock in the French & Indian War (posing in 1772)
Washington as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army (posing in 1776)

3. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

4. Common Sense (1776): On Monarchy
In England a king hath little more to do than to make war and give away places; which in plain terms, is to impoverish the nation and set it together by the ears. A pretty business indeed for a man to be allowed eight hundred thousand sterling a year for, and worshipped into the bargain! Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

5. Common Sense (1776): On British Control of America
Small islands not capable of protecting themselves are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something very absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.

6. Common Sense (1776): On Declaring Independence
Every thing that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part.

8. “Neither Negroes, boys unable to bear arms, nor old men unfit to endure the fatigues of the campaign, are to be enlisted.” Geo. Washington (1775)
“[A]ll indentured servants, Negroes, or others...that are able and willing to bear arms...” are to join His Majesty’s troops…
Earl of Dunmore (1775)

9. Washington Crossing the Delaware Emanuel Leutze (1851)

10. Battle of Trenton (1776)

11. Surrender of Cornwallis (1781)

12. U.S. War Deaths Conflict Deaths Deaths/Day % of Pop. Civil War 620,000
599
1.988%
World War II
405,000
416
0.307%
World War I
116,000
279
0.110%
Vietnam War
58,000 26
0.003%
Korean War
36,000 45
0.002%
Revolutionary War
25,000 11
0.899%
War of 1812
20,000 31
0.345%
Mexican War
13,000 29
0.057%
Iraq/Afghanistan 09/15/09
5,146
1.8
0.001%
Philippine War
4,200 5
0.006%

13. Treaty of Paris (1783)

14. Society of the Cincinnati

15. American Cincinnatus

16. “Republican Motherhood”

17. Postwar Inflation
Not worth a Continental

18. Trade Imbalance with Britain

19. U.S. National Debt as share of GDP
Year
Total Debt
In 2009 terms…
1791
$75,400,000
$5,317,000,000,000
1835
$33,700
$366,000,000
1945
$258,600,000,000
$16,707,000,000,000
2009
$11,821,000,000,000

20. Western Land Claims

21. New England and Medina

22. Land Ordinance of 1785

25. The Land Ordinance Today

26. Northwest Territory

27. Washington on Shays’ Rebellion
I am mortified beyond expression when I view the clouds that have spread over the brightest morn that ever dawned in any country... What a triumph for the advocates of despotism, to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious.

28. Sam Adams on Shays’ Rebellion
Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death.

29. Jefferson* on Shays’ Rebellion
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. God forbid that we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
* in Paris, France

30. To what extent was the United States Constitution a radical departure from the Articles of Confederation?

31. Federalist vs. Anti-Federalist Strongholds