Transcript Causing a Fervor

Learning Targets
•Be able to understand how the British caused
patriotic colonists to begin to feel revolutionary
fervor
•Be able to discuss the colonists’ reaction to British
laws and taxes
•Know the 3 main parts and ideas within the
Declaration of Independence
•Be able to explain the overall economic and
political condition of the brand new United
States of America following the war against Britain
•Tyranny- The unjust and unfair use of power
over another group of people
•Fervor- A feeling, like a fever or desire to act
out or make a change
•Consent- to agree to or allow something to
happen
Causing a Fervor
• Even after years of oppressive mercantilism,
the British decided to pay off their war debt
with new taxes and laws aimed at the
colonies
“Taxation Without Representation”- TyrannyProclamation of 1763, Writs of Assistance,
Stationing 10,000 Redcoats, Sugar Act,
Stamp Act, Townshend Acts, Tea Act,
Declaratory Act, Quartering Act, Intolerable
(Coercive) Acts, Common Sense, British
judges in colonial courts
Reactions to Tyranny
• Committees of Correspondence, smuggling,
boycotting, Sons of Liberty, Stamp Act
Congress, Daughters of Liberty, Boston Tea
Party, using propaganda (Boston Massacre),
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
• First Continental Congress, Declaration of
Rights, Second Continental Congress,
forming the Continental Army, Olive Branch
Petition, Shot heard ‘round the world
• The Declaration of Independence
Seeking A Country of Their
Own
• The Declaration of Independence formally
notified King George of the Patriots’
intentions. It contained three main ideas:
Jefferson wrote that all men possess
unalienable rights including “life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness”
The British had violated the colonists’ rights,
so Jefferson listed all of the violations and
subsequent grievances against the British
The colonies are going to break away since
the king broke the social contract. Patriots will
form a brand new country called the United
States of America
After a long and difficult war against
Great Britain, what condition do you
think the brand new United States of
America was in politically and
economically?
Conditions
The brand new United States was:
• Weak and vulnerable (to attack or takeover)
• Disorganized, selfish, and without their best
trade partner
• Fragmented by The Articles of Confederation,
ideology, and differing economies
• Indebted without tax revenue or a treasury