Unit 1.3 Apush Ids
1. Women and Colonial Resistance
During the 1970’s when colonists were protesting British policies, women started to play an active role public affairs, and created the Daughters of Liberty, a group that helped end the Stamp Act. During the Townshend Act crisis women played a big role in colonial resistance through “non-consumption” of British tea. This was as important as non-importation of tea because women were the major consumers of British tea. Women also supported colonial resistance through the weaving of their own clothes. By making clothes for themselves women didn’t have to pay for British clothes, which in turn supported the British government. Spinning bees, a gathering of women to spin their own clothes, showed that Americans can give up luxury in order to promote liberty.
2. Common Sense and Declaration of Independence
Common Sense written by Thomas Paine was a pamphlet that told Americans that the monarchy was dangerous to liberty and unsuitable for Americans. The Declaration of Independence was a formal document justifying the colonies separation from England. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense started a great deal of commotion among the colonists to favor American independence. With this movement for independence the colonies started to move for independence, and on July 2nd, congress created the United States of America. As a statement to Britain of their independence, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and two others drafted the Declaration of Independence. This document shared all the wrongs of the monarchy and justified their movement for independence. A major source of inspiration for the idea behind the declaration, independence, came from Thomas Paine’s voicing of the king’s wrongs in Common Sense.
3. Locke, Social Contract, and Declaration of Independence
John Locke was a European, enlightened thinker. Locke vouched for the natural rights of man and founded the idea of the social contract. The social contract
During the 1970’s when colonists were protesting British policies, women started to play an active role public affairs, and created the Daughters of Liberty, a group that helped end the Stamp Act. During the Townshend Act crisis women played a big role in colonial resistance through “non-consumption” of British tea. This was as important as non-importation of tea because women were the major consumers of British tea. Women also supported colonial resistance through the weaving of their own clothes. By making clothes for themselves women didn’t have to pay for British clothes, which in turn supported the British government. Spinning bees, a gathering of women to spin their own clothes, showed that Americans can give up luxury in order to promote liberty.
2. Common Sense and Declaration of Independence
Common Sense written by Thomas Paine was a pamphlet that told Americans that the monarchy was dangerous to liberty and unsuitable for Americans. The Declaration of Independence was a formal document justifying the colonies separation from England. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense started a great deal of commotion among the colonists to favor American independence. With this movement for independence the colonies started to move for independence, and on July 2nd, congress created the United States of America. As a statement to Britain of their independence, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and two others drafted the Declaration of Independence. This document shared all the wrongs of the monarchy and justified their movement for independence. A major source of inspiration for the idea behind the declaration, independence, came from Thomas Paine’s voicing of the king’s wrongs in Common Sense.
3. Locke, Social Contract, and Declaration of Independence
John Locke was a European, enlightened thinker. Locke vouched for the natural rights of man and founded the idea of the social contract. The social contract