1. Today’s Standard SSUSH4 -
Identify the ideological, military, and diplomatic aspects of the American Revolution.

2. The American Revolution
Also featuring
The Declaration of Independence

3. A Brief Review of Britain vs. The Colonies
The French-Indian War – huge debt for Britain
The Proclamation of 1763 – Colonists can’t go westward
The Stamp Act (1765)
The Boston Massacre (1770)
The Tea Act (1773)
The Intolerable Acts (1774)
Boston under martial law
Common Sense – The move to Independence

4. The Proclamation of 1763

5. The Revolution Starts
1) Revolution is in the air after Thomas Paine’s Common Sense takes off
1st Continental Congress- the colonies have representatives meeting
2) Minutemen in Concord Mass.; civilian soldiers begin to stockpile weapons in case of an armed conflict with Britain
Martial law prohibits this
Then Britain finds out…

6. The 1st Continental Congress

7. “The shot heard ‘round the world…”
British troops are marching towards Concord, Massachusetts
3) Paul Revere rides ahead of them…
“The British (regulars) are coming!”…this prepares the militia (minutemen)
The minutemen, who outnumber the British troops try to stop the British from getting to Concord
4) The first shots are fired at Lexington, Mass. then at Concord, Mass.
The American Revolution has begun!

8. Map of the British Route to Concord

9. The Revolution Begins…
1) Thomas Jefferson
A Virginia lawyer
He’s chosen to write the The Declaration of Independence
2) Jefferson borrowed heavily from John Locke
Enlightenment
Natural Rights
3) Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
It was ratified July 4th, 1776

10. Thomas Jefferson

11. The American Revolution
1) The 2nd Continental Congress – Remain loyal to Britain or fight a war?
Not everyone wanted to fight
2) Loyalists AKA Tories – wanted to stay loyal to Britain
3) Patriots – wanted independence
At the 2nd CC, the minutemen became the Continental Army
4) George Washington would command them
The Continental army was a mess, though
5) They were ill-prepared, ill-equipped, and untrained against the superior British force