Transcript Seeds of Revolution

Seeds of Revolution
By
Morgan,Nolan,Delana
Britian’s colonies
Over 200 years
ago, a rag tag
group of colonists
fought in a war
against an empire
.The 13 colonies
began to develop
their own ideas .
And ways of
thinking separate
from Great
Britian .
The French and Indian War
The French tried to take over the Native
American land. Britan declared war on
France in 1756 in the Ohio River Valley.
Britan won the war and the Treaty of Pairs
and shared the land.
Taxation without Represention
in 1764 just a year after treaty of paris Britians
parliament passed the sugar act.In 1766 king George
agreed to repeal the stamp act.Britian’s soldiers lived
with colontists and were not required to pay rent or
help the family in any way.
Acts of frustration and
retaliation
Large numbers of
soldiers had lived
fairly peacefully in
Boston after the
French. March
5,1770,a group of
Boston colonists
picked a fight with
some British soldiers
. Adams called the
fight start by
colonists the Boston
Massacre.
The War Begins
• On the night of April 18,
1775, Gage also planned
to arrest the leaders of
the rebellion. Samuel
Prescott found that the
british were coming. The
british soldiers tried to
walk past the
militourmen but an
unordered shot rang
out.
Battling for Independence
The Second Continental Congress
• These soldiers would be
fighting against powerful
Britain , with its welltrained and well-supplied
army and navy.
Washington believed so
strongly in the cause of
American independence.
Not every colonist
wanted to be
independent from Britain.
The Patriots take
Ticonderoga
On the same day the
second congress met the
coloists soldiers scared a
victory over the british
at fort Ticonderoga.The
congress asked the green
mountain boys to capture
the British fort on lake
champlain in New
York.Both arnoln and
allen wanted to be the
leader of the attack but
they managed to
conquer the fort on May
16,1776.
Declaring
Independence
Patriot Tomas Pain wrote a
pamphlet, Common Sense
in witch he declared
independence to be the
only correct choice for the
coloists. In June 1776,the
continental congress
selected a committee to
write a statement about
the colonist right to be
self-governing.the
conteinential congress
approved the declaration
of independence on July
4,1776.
Battle For
Freedom
In October 1776 Patriot
denict Arnalds gunboats
were defeated at lake
champlain in Canada.
Washington defeated the
british at princeton New
Jersy. The battle Saratoge
was turning point of the
war because proved France
and European countries
the Patriots might win the
war.
Southern
battles
British forces captured
Savannah,Georgia in
December 1778.Many
coloists in the southern
colonies were loyalists.The
tide of war started to
turn in favor of the
patriots I october when
they won a battle at
king’s mountain South
Carlinoa in a speedy
sixty-five minutes.
Major players in the
revoulutionary war
John Burgoyne : Britsh
commander of the
northern army; captured
Fort Ticonderoga but
was defeated at
Saratoga. William Howe
:Commander of the
British army in north
america , 1775-1778.
Henry Clinton: Replaced
Howe as British
comander in 1778.
Building a Nation
THE Articles of
Confederation
In 1777,delegetes appointed by each
state to the Second Continetial
Congress agreed to send the new
plan for government to the states
for review.Each state created its
own constitution and printed its
own money.Congress also did not
have the power to change the
articles if the union of the states
decided something about the plan
was not working.
Treaty of pairs
It took almost 5 years for all 13
states to come to an agreement
and approve the articles of
Coniedration . In 1781 the major
revolutry War ended with U.S.
General George Washting win
over British General Charles
Cornwell is at Yorktown , Virginia
but the war it self wasn’t
offically over for 2 more years .
Representatives from the
Unnited states and discussed
peace tearms in Pairs France ,
from the middle of 1782 until the
Treaty of Pairs was singed on
September 3 , 1783 .
Money Problems
The nation owned more than $76
million to foregin countries individval
Americans, and state banks. In
Massachusetts, money problems at
home inspired a rebellion. In 1786,
Daniel Shay’s , a former Kevolotionary
War aiptain, and about a thousand
farmers and other workers marched
on the lawn of springfield ,
Massachusetts, and than headed to
Boston.
Constitutional Convention
The goal of the meeting was to
change the Articles of conferdation to
make the federal government
stronger.they would work on drafting
a constitution that would establish
an excutive to lead the union give
congress the power to tax and
create a way to change the
governing document.Twelve of the
thirteen states sent delagates.
Argument over land
Another problem faced the new
country-what to do with the enormous
land the united states gained after
winning the revolutionary war. The
land ordinance of 1785 spelled out
how to divide the new property into
townships and sections . It endured
that the united states would hold no
colonies as Britian had held the
thirteen colonies.
THE Louisiana Purchase
With all this prosperity and
expansion leaders of the United
States started making plans.The
United States approached Napoleon
Bonaparte France’s emperor to try
to New Orleans.Bonaparte had
some major setbacks in a war in
Europe and he needed troops and
money.
Exploration and War
In May 1804, President Thomas
Jefferson sent two army officers
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark a
45 member group to find a route
across continent, explore Louisiana
Territory.