AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
The Birth of a Democratic Nation
The Colonists Rebel
Mercantilism
Stamp Act-required colonists to put taxed stamps on paper
Colonists Boycott and Stamp Act is Repealed
Townshend Acts-taxed glass, tea, paper, and lead
Boston Tea Party
Parliament passes Coercive Acts(Intolerable Acts)-restricted colonists rights
Moving Toward Independence
First Continental Congress-Demanded the rights of the colonists be restored
2 battles take place at Lexington and Concord
Second Continental Congress-Located in Philadelphia
Common Sense--Thomas Paine
Declaration of Independence
Would officially announce the imdependence of the United States
Thomas Jefferson wrote most of it
Called King George III a tyrant-He was "Unfit to be the ruler of a free people"
Approved on July 4, 1776
Common Sense Pamphlet
Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Independence
Key Terms
Mercantilism
Boycott
Repeal
Delegate
Independence