Transcript Charles Thomson

Chapter 2
Roots of American
Democracy
SECTION 4: THE BIRTH OF
A DEMOCRATIC NATION
Charles Thomson
Great Seal of the United States
Americans in Action
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Pennsylvanian
First Continental Congress delegate
1774 - 1789
Secretary
Great Seal of the United States
Colonial Resistance and
Rebellion
Philadelphia
First Continental Meeting
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First Continental Congress
Mercantilism
Cheap raw materials
Cotton and lumber
British high prices
French and Indian War
French and Indian War
Stamp Act
Colonial Resistance and
Rebellion
• 1765 Stamp Act
• “No taxation without
presentation”
• Colonist boycott
“No taxation without representation!”
Declaratory Act of 1766
Townshend Acts
The Tea Act of 1773
British East India Company
Boston Tea Party
Coercive Acts/Intolerable Acts
Movement
Toward Independence
•Against Intolerable Acts
•September 1774
•12 Colonies
•Georgia
•Representatives
•Philadelphia
Continental Congress
First Continental Congress Second Continental Congress
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Philadelphia
7 weeks
Rights restored
2 Battles
Massachusetts
Lexington and Concord
Revolutionary War
Self-reliance and Freedom
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May 1775 – Philadelphia
Thomas Paine
January 1776
Common Sense
Complete Independence
Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Ideals
Second Paragraph of Declaration of Independence
“We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men
are created equal, that
they are endowed by
their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that
among these are Life,
Liberty, and the pursuit of
Happiness.”
“That to secure these rights,
Governments are
instituted among Men,
deriving their just powers
from the consent of the
governed, that whenever
any Form of Government
becomes destructive of
these ends, it is the Right
of the People to alter or
abolish it, and to institute
new Government….”
Democratic Ideals
John Locke
Second Treaties of Government
Second Continental Congress