AMERICAN REVOLUTION

4º E.S.O.

BRITISH COLONIES (13)MARYLAND CATHOLICS A tribute to Queen

Mary. Scape from England, they don´t recognize thequeen as the head of the church

PLAYMOUTH (Annexedto Massachussets)

PURITANS They don´t believe in church nor anglicanismBIBLE and WORK

PENNSYLVANIA QUAKERS PacifistThere is somethingdivine inside us

COLONIES MAP

STAMP ACT AND TOWNSHEND ACTS

Tax imposed on documents and newspapers

Tax imposed on paper, tea, glass…

The act was repealed by the British Parliament

Americans felt tricked again

NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!! THIS WAS A COMMON GOAL OF THE COLONIES

THE BOSTON TEA PARTY

• The Boston Massacre was exaggerated bypress

• Americans dumped the tea, they wereopposed to the tea – duty

• THE WAR BROKE OUT

BOSTON TEA PARTY

FIRST AND SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS

FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS

SECOND CONTINENTALCONGRESS

Boycott trade with Britain They named George Washington as a commander

Organize militias They issued the Declaration of Independence

THEY WERE FORMED FROM REPRESENTATIVES FROM EVERY COLONY (exceptGeorgia) and they gathered in Philadelphia

Carpenter’s Hall

The Declaration of Independence

• The king did not protect them

• Struggle for freedom

WHY DID THE COLONIST WIN THE WAR?

American´s motivation and G. Washington

British generals made several mistakes

A expensive war for England : an overseas war

French, Dutch republic and Spain were allies

YORKTWN : Washington made Cornwallis surrenderin 1781.

The end . TREATY OF VERSAILLES 1783. GB recognized USA

Constitución americana

Cuando una larga serie de abusos y usurpaciones, dirigida invariablemente al mismo objetivo, demuestra el designio de someter al pueblo a un despotismo absoluto, tiene el derecho, tiene el deber, de derrocar ese gobierno y establecer nuevas garantías para su futura seguridad. Tal ha sido el paciente sufrimiento de estas colonias; tal es ahora la necesidad que las obliga a reformar su anterior sistema de gobierno. […] Por tanto, los representantes de los Estados Unidos de América convocados en Congreso General […] hacemos público y declaramos: Que estas Colonias Unidas son, y deben serlo por derecho, Estados Libres e Independientes […] y que toda vinculación política entre ellas y el Estado de la Gran Bretaña queda y debe quedar totalmente disuelta […] Filadelfia 1776