when do citizens have the right to rebel against their own government? please write your answer
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When do citizens have the right to rebel against their own
government?
Please write your answer.
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Immediate Causes of the Revolutionary War (1775 -
1783)First Continental Congress
Lexington/ConcordSecond Continental Congress
Fort TiconderogaBunker Hill
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
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Immediate Causes
• First Continental Congress (Sept. 1774)
• First meeting of colonies• 12 of 13 colonies meet in
Philly (no GA)• Discuss what to do about
Britain• Boycott British goods• Prepare colonial militias
to fight• Agree to meet again
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Carpenters Hall, Philadelphia, PA
Home of the First Continental Congress
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What tone are the artists trying to convey in these images? How do you know?
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• Lexington / Concord Mass. (April 19, 1775)
• Minutemen - Massachusetts militia
• Sons of Liberty learn of British plan to capture their armory (weapons storage facility)
• Dawes and Revere ride throughout country with “The British are coming”
• Lexington - 70 minutemen get crushed
• Concord - 250 hurt or killed to 100 colonists -colonist repel attack
• Shot Heard Round the World - Ralph Waldo Emerson writes a poem about the first shots fired in Rev War
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Attack of Lexington and Concord
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Minutemen - Massachusetts Militia
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When comparing the British and the Patriots from this image, what do
you notice?
Is this a realistic image of what the
Battle of Lexington may
have looked like? Why or nhy not?
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Battle of Lexington - April 18, 1775
At Lexington, we lost…
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… but at Concord, we conquered!
Old North Bridge, Concord Massachusetts
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• Second Continental Congress (May 1775)
• Two decisions– Continental Army - with
George Washington in charge to fight England
– Olive Branch Petition - Colonies are loyal to England and will stay loyal if the Intolerable Acts are removed
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Philadelphia State House -
Home of the Second Continental Congress
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What is the mood of the men at the Second Continental Congress? Why might this be?
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John Adams Discussion of the Olive Branch Petition
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• Fort Ticonderoga (May 1775)
• Green Mountain Boys - (VT militia) capture this NY fort
• Ethan Allen - Leader of the Green Mountain Boys
• Gains weapons for colonists, control of Lake Champlain
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Layout of Fort Ticonderoga, New York
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Lake Champlain from the Fort
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“Come on out, you dirty rat!”
-Ethan Allen
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• Bunker Hill (June 1775)
• In Boston, British climb Breed’s Hill three times before knocking the Patriots off.
• Colonel William Prescott under Americans orders “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes”
• Brits have to come in three waves - shows colonies are motivated but under supplied
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What style of fighting are the British employing here?
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Boston, Massachusetts. Why was this a difficult city to defend from the British military?
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A Famous Order: “Don’t Fire Until You See the Whites of Their Eyes!” Why did the Patriot leader issue this order?
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What does this image tell us about the strengths and weaknesses of both the British and the Patriots?
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What was artist John Trumbull telling us with his painting, “The Battle of Bunker Hill?”
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• Thomas Paine’s Common Sense (1776)
• Tries to convince undecided 1/3 of colonists to side with Patriots
• Sold 500,000 copies - very influential
• Argues that people, not kings or queens should rule citizens
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