1. Topic 3 Lesson 5 The American Revolution

2. How Britain became a global power
Location
Expanding land
Understand the events and ideas that leading up to the American Revolution
Summerize key events
French and Indian War debt
Taxes
Identify the political and legal ideas in the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution
Popular Sovereignty
Democracy
How much power should the government have

3. Its good to be the King King George III 60 yr reign
Reassert the power of the King
Wanted to limit power of parliament (Britain's law making branch) Glorious Revolution made parliament more powerful than the king
Placed taxes on colonists
Began American Revolution

4. Road to Revolution Navigation Act Sugar Act
Stamp Act (no taxation w/o representation)
Intolerable Acts pushed colonists to the brink
Fights between colonists and soldiers
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
1st Continental Congress
Lexington and Concord
American Revolution
2nd Continental Congress
Continental Army led by George Washington

5. Independence
-”We hold this truths to be self evident that all men are created equal and they are endowed
by their creator with certain unalienable rights life, liberty, pursuit of
happiness”
-1776 Congress declares independence from Britain
-Thomas Jefferson writes Declaration of Independence uses many ideas from the
Enlightenment period
-John Locke –natural rights and right to revolt (overthrow government)
-Popular sovereignty
-July 4, 1776

6. The War
-British had advantage w/large number of troops, money, and were stationed in major cities
-Colonists controlled countryside
-Washington emerged as a great general and strategist
-Battle of Saratoga major turning point in the war
-became allies with France giving much needed supplies, soldiers, and warships
-Spain and Netherlands also become allies
-1781 Washington gets Britain to surrender at Yorktown, VA
-1783 Treaty of Paris signed officially ending the war.

7. Ideas from the Enlightenment
-Rousseau- social contract
-Montesquieu- separation of powers, three branches of government legislative(congress),
Executive (president), judicial (supreme court)
-Locke- government should protect the people, if abusive right to overthrow

8. A new form of government
Articles of Confederation
The Constitution
Provides for 3 branches of government with equal power
Lists duties and powers of each branch
Bill of Rights -1st 10 amendments to Constitution- provides basic freedoms. 27 Amendments
Sets up a federal republic and a system of checks and balances