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Music: : A French Fiddle
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Text: The Declaration of
Independence
Becky Brown
MEDT 7477
Spring 2012

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Music: A French Fiddle Speaks

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Text: As the American colonies
grew, so did the problems!

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Music: A French Fiddle Speaks

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Text: Colonists vs. Native
Americans

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Text: Defense of the Border

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Text: Because of this,
many members of Parliament felt as
though it was the duty of the
colonists to help pay for the French
and Indian War as the well for the
defense of the borders.

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Music: A French Fiddle Speaks


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Text:
Stamp Act of 1765
Quartering Act of 1765




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Text: Townshend Act of 1767

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Text: Intolerable Acts


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Text: Development of the
distrust of the British
government

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Text: Taxation without
Representation

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Text: Legitimate Jurisdiction?

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Music: A Window to the Past


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Text: With these ideas brewing
in the minds of the colonists,
there were events that led to a
standoff between the British
and the colonists

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Music: A Window to the Past


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Text: Boston Massacre

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Text: Boston Tea Party


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Text: First Continental Congress


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Music: A Window to the Past


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Text: Battle of Bunker Hill

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Text: Capture of Fort
Ticonderoga


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Text: Battle of Lexington and
Concord


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Music: A Window to the Past

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Text: Thomas Paine and Common
Sense

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Text: Second Continental
Congress
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Music: Purcell Trumpet Tune

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Text: In 1776, with the
rejection of the Olive Branch
Petition and fighting between
British and American forces,
the Congress began the steps to
declare independence.



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Text: The Declaration
Committee
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John Adams of Massachusetts
Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania


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Music: Purcell Trumpet Tune

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Text: The Declaration
Committee

Thomas Jefferson of Virginia
Roger Sherman of Connecticut
Robert Livingston of New York



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Music: Bach Brandeburg
Concerto 2 (Third Movement)

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Text: The task of writing the
Declaration began in June 1776.

Franklin and Adams believed that
the task needed to be completed
by Thomas Jefferson.


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Music: Bach Brandeburg
Concerto 2 (Third Movement)

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Text: Influences

John Locke

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Music: Bach Brandenburg
Concerto 2 (3
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Text: Other Influences

1775 Constitution of Virginia
English Declaration of Rights
Francis Hutcheson
Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui
Samuel Pufendorf








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Music: Bach Brandeburg
Concerto 2 (Third Movement)

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Text: Re-writing the Declaration



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Music: Bach Brandeburg
Concerto 2 (Third Movement)

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Text: Why was the Declaration
needed?


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Concerto 2 (Third Movement)

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Text: Grievances

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
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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.
He has refused for a long time, after
such dissolutions, to cause others to be
elected; whereby the Legislative
powers, incapable of Annihilation, have
returned to the People at large for
their exercise; the State remaining in
the mean time exposed to all the
dangers of invasion from without, and
convulsions within.


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Text: Grievances

He has endeavored to prevent the
population of these States; for that
purpose obstructing the Laws for
Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing
to pass others to encourage their
migrations hither, and raising the
conditions of new Appropriations of
Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration
of Justice, by refusing his Assent to
Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his
Will alone, for the tenure of their
offices, and the amount and payment of
their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New
Offices, and sent hither swarms of
Officers to harass our people, and eat
out their substance
He has kept among us, in times of
peace, Standing Armies without the
Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military
independent of and superior to the Civil
power.
He has combined with others to subject
us to a jurisdiction foreign to our
constitution, and unacknowledged by
our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts
of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed
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troops among us: For protecting them,
by a mock Trial, from punishment for
any Murders which they should commit
on the Inhabitants...


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Music: Macaroni

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Text: Grievances

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 neighbouring 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:
For taking away our Charters,
abolishing our most valuable Laws, and
altering fundamentally the Forms of our
Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures,
and declaring themselves invested with
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power to legislate for us in all cases
whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by
declaring us out of his Protection and
waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our
Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed
the lives of our people
He is at this time transporting large
Armies of foreign Mercenaries to
complete the works of death,
desolation and tyranny, already begun
with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy
scarcely paralleled in the most
barbarous ages, and totally unworthy
the Head of a civilized nation.


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Music: Macaroni

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Text: Grievances

George III
He has constrained our fellow Citizens
taken Captive on the high Seas to bear
Arms against their Country, to become
the executioners of their friends and
Brethren, or to fall themselves by their
Hands

He has excited domestic insurrections
amongst us, and has endeavoured to
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bring on the inhabitants of our
frontiers, the merciless Indian
Savages, whose known rule of warfare,
is an undistinguished destruction of all
ages, sexes and conditions.


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Music: Macaroni

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Text: Signing the Declaration



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Music: Macaroni

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Text: The Declaration was
officially adopted on July 4
th
.