AMERICAN REVOLUTION

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AMERICAN REVOLUTION

• Document Based Question

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Computer Lab Assignment

• Complete document analysis packet.
• Answer the questions for each document.
• Write practice document citations for each
  document.
• Examples
• Do not use In Document B.
• Incorporate the document into the sentence.
• According to Paul Reveres engraving

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Question

• From the late 1760s to July 4,1776, American
  colonists moved from merely protesting the
  decisions of the King and Parliament to a
  Declaration of Independence and a Revolutionary
  War to overthrow that authority. Using both
  your own knowledge and the documents provided,
  identify and discuss the turning points which
  marked this changing relationship.

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Directions

• View all of the documents in the slides that
  follow. Write a brief description of each slide
  including title and author.
• Become familiar with the content of each document
  for future use on the test.

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The Stamp Act
Document A

• This political cartoon/poster was created in
  response to the Stamp Act. It criticizes the
  legislation that required that all paper goods be
  taxed. Proof of the paid tax was required in the
  way of a stamp.

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Document B
Bostonians Paying the Excise (tax) Man -A
colored engraving by an unknown artist. -This
political cartoon/painting is describing the
colonist reaction to the Tea Act. -The sign on
Liberty Tree is upside down and reads Stamp
Act. The pot has the word TEA printed on it.
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Document B
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Document C
THE BOSTON MASSACRE The Bloody Massacre
perpetrated in King Street An engraving by Paul
Revere that was used as negative propaganda
against the British. Three weeks after the
occurrence, Revere was advertising his prints for
sale. Patriotic propaganda like this was used to
stir up feelings against the British government.
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Document C
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• Document D
• George Hewes, 1773 - Firsthand America, A
  History of the United States, David Burner, 1996.
• This personal account of the Boston Tea Party
  and an original document of the remembrances of a
  participant in that event appears in one of the
  standard college textbooks used today in many
  colleges and universities.
• Document is found on the next three slides

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The Boston Tea Party
One the evening of December 16, 1773, a gathering
of perhaps 8,000 men, much of the towns
contingent of able-bodies males, assembled at the
Old South Church. They were there to hold a town
meeting, to ask that the hated tea not be landed.
Their request was not granted, and at the end of
the meeting Sam Adams rose from his seat and
said
Document D
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Document D

• "This meeting can do nothing to save the
  country." As if by prearranged signal, as soon as
  the meeting adjourned, a band of men disguised as
  Mohawk Indians rushed down Milk Street to
  Griffins Wharf. Three companies of these instant
  Indians rowed out to the anchored tea ships,
  boarded them, split open the tea chests, and
  dumped their massive contents into the waters of
  the harbor. Their mission accomplished, the men
  quickly and quietly dispersed...."

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Testimonial of George HewesDocument D

• George Hewes, One of the Indians
  participating in the Boston Tea Party, December
  16, 1773
• "I brought... a small hatchet, which I and my
  associated demonated the tomahawk, with which,
  and a club, after having painted my face and
  hands with coal dust in the shop of a blacksmith,
  I repaired to Griffins wharf, where the three
  ships lay that contained the tea.... There
  appeared to be an understanding that each
  individual should volunteer his services, keep
  his own secret, and risk the consequences for
  himself. No disorder took place during that
  transaction, and it was observed at the time that
  the stillest night ensued that Boston had enjoyed
  for many months."

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Thomas Paine Common Sense
Document E

• In the following pages I offer nothing more
  than simple facts, plain arguments, and common
  sense and have no other preliminaries to settle
  with the reader, than that he will divest himself
  of prejudice and prepossession, and suffer his
  reason and his feelings to determine for
  themselves that he will put on, or rather that he
  will not put off, the true character of a man,
  and generously enlarge his views beyond the
  present day.

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Thomas Paine cont

• But Britain is the parent country, say some.
  Then the more shame upon her conduct. Even brutes
  do not devour their young, nor savages make war
  upon their families. Wherefore, the assertion, if
  true, turns to her reproach but it happens not
  to be true, or only partly so, and the phrase
  PARENT OR MOTHER COUNTRY hath been jesuitically
  adopted by the King and his parasites, with a low
  papistical design of gaining an unfair bias on
  the credulous weakness of our minds. Europe, and
  not England, is the parent country of America.
  This new World hath been the asylum for the
  persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty
  from EVERY PART of Europe. Hither have they fled,
  not from the tender embraces of the mother, but
  from the cruelty of the monster and it is so far
  true of England, that the same tyranny which
  drove the first emigrants from home, pursues
  their descendants still.

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Document F
THE OLIVE BRANCH PETITION

• The Olive Branch Petition, drafted on July 5,
  1775, was a letter to King George III, from
  members of the Second Continental Congress,
  which, for the final time, appealed to their king
  to redress colonial grievances in order to avoid
  bloodshed. The Olive Branch Petition has been
  called different names over the years, the most
  popular of which include The Second Petition to
  the King and The Humble Petition. It was shipped
  by boat on July 8, 1775, and received by King
  George III six weeks later.

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Olive Branch Petition
Document F

• To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty.MOST
  GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN We, your Majestys faithful
  subjects of the Colonies of New-Hampshire,
  Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, New-Jersey,
  Pennsylvania, the Counties of Newcastle, Kent,
  and Sussex, on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
  North Carolina, and South Carolina, in behalf of
  ourselves and the inhabitants of these Colonies,
  who have deputed us to represent them in General
  Congress, entreat your Majestys gracious
  attention to this our humble petition.The union
  between our Mother Country and these Colonies,
  and the energy of mild and just Government,
  produce benefits so remarkably important, and
  afforded such an assurance of their permanency
  and increase, that the wonder and envy of other
  nations were excited, while they beheld Great
  Britain rising to a power the most extra-ordinary
  the world had ever known.

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Olive Branch Petition cont
Document F

• We beg further leave to assure your Majesty,
  that notwithstanding the sufferings of your loyal
  Colonists during the course of this present
  controversy, our breasts retain too tender a
  regard for the kingdom from which we derive our
  origin, to request such a reconciliation as
  might, in any manner, be inconsistent with her
  dignity or welfare. These, related as we are to
  her, honour and duty, as well as inclination,
  induce us to support and advance and the
  apprehensions that now oppress our hearts with
  unspeakable grief, being once removed, your
  Majesty will find our faithful subject on this
  Continent ready and willing at all times, as they
  have ever been with their lives and fortunes, to
  assert and maintain the rights and interests of
  your Majesty, and of our Mother Country.

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The Declaration of Independence
Document G

• When in the Course of human events, it
  becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the
  political bands which have connected them with
  another, and to assume among the powers of the
  earth, the separate and equal station to which
  the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle
  them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind
  requires that they should declare the causes
  which impel them to the separation.

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Declaration of Independence cont
Document G

• He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most
  wholesome and necessary for the public good.
• He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws
  of immediate and pressing importance, unless
  suspended in their operation till his Assent
  should be obtained and when so suspended, he has
  utterly neglected to attend to them.
• He has refused to pass other Laws for the
  accommodation of large districts of people,
  unless those people would relinquish the right of
  Representation in the Legislature, a right
  inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants
  only.
• He has called together legislative bodies
  at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant
  from the depository of their public Records, for
  the sole purpose of fatiguing them into
  compliance with his measures.
• He has dissolved Representative Houses
  repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his
  invasions on the rights of the people.

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Declaration of Independence cont

• For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among
  us
• For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from
  punishment for any Murders which they should
  commit on the Inhabitants of these States
• For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the
  world
• For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent
  For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits
  of Trial by Jury
• For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for
  pretended offences
• For abolishing the free System of English Laws in
  a neighboring Province, establishing therein an
  Arbitrary government, and enlarging its
  Boundaries so as to render it at once an example
  and fit instrument for introducing the same
  absolute rule into these Colonies

Document G