American Revolution

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

AMERICAN REVOLUTION

The period that went from the end of 1700 and the beginning of 1800 was full of revolutions and wars

revolution

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

American Declaration of Independence

1776

The Boston Tea Party

1773

TheBoston massacre

1770

George III

1760-1820

In congress, july 4, 1776

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States

“When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.”

All Men are created equal

DECLARATION OF INPENDENCE

“We, therefore, the Representatives of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in General Congress, Assembled, ap- pealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the Rectitude of our Intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly Publish and Declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES, that they are absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political Connection between them and the State of Great-Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alli- ances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which INDEPENDENT STATES may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our fortunes, and our sacred Honor".

The German People have adopted, by virtue of their constituent power, this Constitution which guarantees unity, justice and liberty.

Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany

The basic principle of the Declaration was that all “men are born and remain free and equal in rights” (Article 1), which were specified as the rights of liberty, fraternity and equality.

French Declaration of the rights of Man

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

American Declaration of Indipendence

Declaration of indipendence, 1776

“unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

and why it's gone wrong

America's pursuit of Happiness

"slavery impedes the public happiness".

NOAH WEBSTER

"the Judiciary system of the United States: No subject is more interesting then this to the public happiness".

JOHN ADAMS

“There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”

GEORGE WASHINGTON

• increased participation in politics and governance

• legal institutionalization of religious toleration

• the growth and diffusion of the population

• effects on the lives of slaves and free blacks as well as the institution of slavery itself

The Consequences of the American Revolution

sources:https://www.ted.com/talks/caroline_winterer_america_s_pursuit_of_happiness_and_why_it_s_gone_wrong (ted talk)https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-ushistory1ay/chapter/the-consequences-of-the-american-revolution/ (article about the consequence of the american revolution)

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