The American Revolution BIG Idea: Frontier life blurred class divisions & promoted Enlightenment ideas of equality among white, property-owning men. By.

The American Revolution• BIG Idea: Frontier life blurred class

divisions & promoted Enlightenment ideas of equality among white, property-owning men.

By Sam Irving

Great Britain• Why do countries

have colonies?

• Used the colonies as a source for raw materials and a market for British goods.−Taxed

Tarring and Feathering a tax collector

French & Indian War (1754-60)

• British gained French territory in North America.

• War costs and defending new territory indebted Britain.

• British Parliament (legislature) taxed the colonies.

Join or die, by Benjamin Franklin

The Boston Massacre, by Paul Revere

Revolutionary War• 1775: Battle of Lexington &

Concord.

• France & Spain joined the Americans.

• 1781: British surrendered at Yorktown.

Early U.S. Gov’t 1783-87• Confederation: loose union of

states with a weak central gov’t.

• Ineffective & soon abandoned.

Constitution 1787• Federal System: Split between

national & state gov’ts.

• Republic: elected leaders.

• Bill of Rights: protecting natural rights.

• Closer to true democracy than most western nations at the time.

Assignment

• ELT: Give examples of how philosophical beliefs have influenced society.− Let’s read the text that led the colonists to

revolution.

• What were Thomas Paine’s various arguments for American Independence?

• “Common Sense” by Thomas Paine− Primary Source Reading and Questions

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