AP Prep Webinar #2: American Revolution, Tom Richey

jaring we’re getting everything set up here alright and this is night – this is gonna be the second of nine broadcast looks like we’ve got a lot of people here and this is pretty awesome here okay so as far as as this goes last time we covered colonial America the so called periods 1 & 2 I’m period 3 the so called really is kind of it’s a big one alright so you know it’s I’m gonna do this over two nights and on this night I’m gonna focus on the American Revolution thank you so much Bri for what you see there now as far as as far as this goes I want to make just a quick note on period culture I think that that the numbered period culture is something that I’m not a big fan of in a push I’m even though y’all talk about numbered periods the exam never once mentions a numbered period and so some of y’all that have been going over this you know da da da da y’all need to get over that okay because when it comes down to it the numbered periods are just a convenient way to I’ve you know to know what’s on the exam and stuff like that but at the same time you don’t typically hear me refer to numbered periods because I don’t think it necessarily will help you on the exam so what we did yesterday we focused on colonial America and today we’re gonna focus on the American Revolution yes Jason I am an a push teacher where are you going with that curious to hear that I’m so yeah definitely Jason continue that fall alright so what I want to do is I want to focus on some topics now tomorrow I’m gonna be looking at the Articles of Confederation the Constitution Jefferson versus Hamilton and all of that good stuff okay so as far as that goes what you see from yesterday was was colonial America alright and so as far as that goes what I want to start off with in terms of the American Revolution and most of you all know that I’ve got a YouTube channel with some stuff on there you know I’ve never posted my lecture on the American enlightenment and so as far as this goes I want to start off with that now if you all have some things that are specific that y’all want me to address go ahead and put something in the QA box Madi is pointing to that right now because really I’d want to keep tonight a little bit more flexible because there are so many things I was looking at these key concepts and all that so many things can do that this is an hour so whatever your priorities are let me know so first of all I’m gonna go into the American enlightenment a little bit because we’re looking into something that’s really influencing the American Revolution so the Enlightenment was an 18th century European intellectual movement that emphasized rational thinking now on my youtube-channel last week I posted a video about the first Great Awakening what’s important to note is you know when we look at what’s going on you know there are debates about you know where

the founding fathers Christians you know is America a Christian nation and stuff like that and a lot of times these things are not yes-or-no questions on one side we’ve got the first Great Awakening you know which was a religious revival that immediately preceded the French and Indian War and the American Revolution but then on the other hand you’ve got the Enlightenment now you know you can look at that video that I posted on the first Great Awakening and this is an emotional kind of thing you know Americans you know are more into emotional religion than Europeans by and large but also this European movement the Enlightenment comes over and is very influential in determining how Americans think okay so the emphasis here is on rational thinking that emotions do not lead to the discovery of knowledge now remember the you know if you’ve got questions you want to put those in the Q&A there okay so French and Indian War and I’ll definitely get to that so influencers John Locke and Isaac Newton now and we think about John Locke his political theories were very influential so if we’re thinking about the Declaration of Independence you know if Thomas Jefferson had put the Declaration of Independence into turnitin.com it would have been red-flagged okay because Thomas Jefferson you know back then I mean it wasn’t like he was acting like he made it up but he was using Locke’s ideas and lock your rights into place I like it so the natural rights of life liberty and property and other things that Locke was into were religious toleration okay which this is something when you consider this is a consequence of the American Revolution that when we look at the 13 colonies in especially New England we see that Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson were run out of New England because they had differing religious beliefs you know that the Puritan idea of religious freedom was really just the freedom to practice their own religion not the freedom for anybody to practice a religion and that’s what Roger Williams I believe that people should have the right to do but walk believe that all religions should be taught tolerated and that knowledge comes from experience you know not from necessarily you know tradition and stuff like that Isaac Newton believed that the universe is governed by natural law and so while the first Great Awakening you know is you know going you know is is reviving this religious sentiment there are others that are thinking in terms of you know that government’s irrational the universe is rational and we need to create a government that is based on rational principles and so when you’re thinking about this now the American enlightenment as far as the prime figures here there are three people who are very important that you’ve already heard of okay this is an obscure stuff here okay so anytime you’re thinking about the American enlightenment you’re

thinking in terms of Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine all right and so Thomas Jefferson a politician and philosopher of course the author of the Declaration of Independence now Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence all men are created equal now of course you know there’s a lot of discussion about that as far as you know what is it that Jefferson means by that and and certainly you know this has been reinterpreted over time but what Jefferson is writing about but John let’s let’s be a little bit more you know complex about this because he’s really he’s rejecting the notion of hereditary nobility what the Americans are looking or you know the American colonists are resenting is that the British believed that they were better than Americans okay they were better than the colonists they also believed that someone with a title of nobility is better than someone who does not have a title of nobility and so as far as that goes you know he writes that that he is rejecting this notion of hereditary nobility and so then there’s Benjamin Franklin now Benjamin Franklin was also on the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson was the primary author but he was part of a committee so Benjamin Franklin was a politician inventor invented the lightning rod it’s something that protects you know protects things to you know protects buildings from lightning he’s one of the people credited with bifocals thinking about like hey you know when you get over 40 you have these lenses that now you don’t have to change your glasses to see and to read you’ve got these bifocal lenses that when you’re reading something you look through this part so you know he was an inventor on Thomas Paine who was a professional revolutionary okay so Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine were both driven by the Enlightenment and so as far as that when you look at Thomas Paine’s major works it’s got enlightenment written all over it common sense the rights of man the age of reason so when we think about how do we come to truth we come to truth through the senses we come to truth through reason and that rights are sacred and so Thomas Paine yes the author of common sense now I’m just while we’re on Paine I’ve you know Paine wrote common sense he published common sense in January of 1776 and the issue was that you know there had been fighting ever since April of 1775 with the battles of Lexington and Concord and Thomas Paine is wondering why is it that the Americans are you know not wanting to declare independence because they’re fighting the British kind of but then not really you know they release you know the Olive Branch petition and there are a lot of people especially you know in the middle colonies who are hesitant to embrace this revolution so Thomas Paine wrote common sense when we think about the

purpose of historical documents he wanted to persuade Americans that independence was possible and independence was desirable and this is one of those causal factors you know leading to the Declaration of Independence in July of 1776 and so as far as that as far as that goes I D ISM all right Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Franklin they tended to gravitate toward D ISM a natural religion okay so yes I mean Paine was was definitely Rowling folks up for the revolution okay so D ISM is a natural religion okay now while a lot of the founding fathers and the framers of the Constitution you know were Christians others were deists now deism rejects any kind of sacred texts or anything like that and you know believes in the existence from of God but believes in the existence of God because it’s rational not necessarily because it’s taught in the Bible or something like that and it rejects you know other things like the you know the divinity of Christ and stuff like that that you know don’t go in line necessarily with rationality so deism when you think the Latin Deus which is the word for God it’s God ISM and so as far as that goes you know deism is you know deism is this belief in this rational universe governed by natural law and that God has discovered through nature I will make sure that this PowerPoint that I’ve shared is shared you know with y’all through the you know in on the page and as far as this goes a lot of these founding fathers were deists but yes I will definitely put this into into that um you know deist yeah here’s the thing that when you think about this that I’ve you know Christianity and especially evangelical Christianity if we want to think about the first Great Awakening that God is very interested in you okay and so you know he is just present you know especially as you get to the second great awakening as well um you know and that you should have this like more personal relationship where yeah the deist God is you know is more impersonal now let’s be careful though because it doesn’t mean that God doesn’t care or have a plan when you look at Thomas Jefferson’s speeches and writings on even in the Declaration of Independence he invokes the term divine providence okay like this idea that God is behind the American Revolution in one of Jefferson’s inaugural addresses he compares the United States to Israel uh you know so that’s something that is that is a factor there all right so let me go ahead and and pull that down and I’m going to you know pull up something else I’ve heard the question about the French and Indian War so we’ve got the Enlightenment but we’ve also got the French and Indian War so let me go ahead and open that up because that’s kind of

the anchor of this now I’m going to kind of paint over this with a broad brush I’m because I have a video about this on YouTube but I think I can give you the short version here okay and so what I’m gonna do on here is I’m going to share my screen with y’all and show y’all this this presentation now I don’t see anybody necessarily using the Q&A so remember to use the Q&A that’s always a good thing there but I’m gonna go ahead and share my screen here and let’s take a look at the French and Indian War is a turning point now this is just to kind of illustrate as far as what it is that you would need to know for you know this exam like when we think about what you need to know about a war it’s not necessarily the course of the war although there’s some great military history I’ve you know but it is about knowing why the war impact impacted things okay so when we think about the French and Indian War this is really this is really the anchor for the American Revolution now the first thing we need to remember is that the purpose of a colony is to make a profit for the mother country alright if the mother country is not making a profit then the colony is worthless and so in the 17th century and we started to talk about this a little bit last night with the triangular trade ok this trade between Europe and Africa and the new world and so you’ve got finished goods coming from Europe slaves from Africa and raw materials and agricultural products coming from the new world so the navigation acts were passed between 1651 and 1663 and this is this is a an example of mercantilism okay so mercantilism this is when trade policies they are discouraged gin trade with other nations alright so they want to make sure that British colonies are trading with British ports and that there is going to be a tax or other financial penalty for people who are importing people who are taking in so if the colonies are taking in sugar from Dutch colonies or Spanish colonies then that is no good so the navigation acts associate those with mercantilism so these governed overseas trade now luckily for the colonists these were not enforced the navigation acts were not enforced by the British government at least prior to the French and Indian War on this is a policy known as salutary neglect now remember that you know typically neglect is a bad thing but in this case neglect is actually a good thing it’s kind of like if your parents are going to leave for the weekend and they leave a hundred dollar bill on the counter and they tell you not to have any parties they’ll be back in a few

days you will probably have no problem with that so why is it that the British government is going to pass these laws and then they’re not going to enforce them well trade was a top priority okay so the colonies can either make money through direct revenue or they can make the money through trade so the British wanted to take this in via trade and so they also had a very limited troop presence this guy kind of looks like grew from despicable me I can’t get over the resemblance and so what you want to look at as well okay is that before the French and Indian War the British had you know a colonial rivalry with France and so what France did France didn’t really send as many colonists remember we talked last night about how the French claimed a lot of land but they didn’t really put people on it they’re setting up forts and trading posts I’m in Canada and then of course they’re moving into the modern-day Midwest specifically in the Ohio River Valley and so before the French and Indian War the goal of the British colonial administration was trade the navigation acts were not enforced and you’ve got the salutary neglect and not any kind of meaningful British troop presence and so as far as that goes what did the French and Indian War change it changed Britain’s financial situation and Britain came to a number of conclusions okay first they concluded that the colonists who had been left alone they were not able to respond to the French threat on their own so when the British defeated the French they did it to a large extent through British regular forces coming in so the British military intervention in North America was expensive okay and there was a great amount of debt that came from that and then they decided that British troops should be permanently stationed in North America and the colonists should pay for their upkeep so the biggest legacy of the French and Indian War is that there is not going to be any more salutary neglect you know mommy and daddy are home now and that’s over now not only that but British troops are coming in now of course the colonists resent this because there’s no more French threat and so the British troops are now here and the colonists are trying to care having to pay for their upkeep they’re very resentful about the quartering of troops on the navigation acts now they are moving to strict enforcement why because they have to raise revenue revenue becomes a top priority rather than trade so after the French and Indian War the British government is trying to raise revenue they start to enforce the Navigation Acts no more salutary neglect and of course there is the presence of British troops now on the other side of this there are no more French colony so there’s no more French threat the colonists should be

able to move into the Ohio River Valley now right wrong okay that’s not happening because the British have other plans all right so the immediate effect of the French and Indian War was tension between the colonists and the British government over taxation troops and trade restrictions I’ve got three T’s actually four T’s if you think about tension how about that tension over taxation troops and trade restrictions all right and so then you know why do we still need the British you know the colonies they felt like they’ve been getting by okay and so there’s a lot of tension between 1763 and 1776 and so the long-term consequence of the French and Indian War is the American Revolution so that’s the long term effect now let me go ahead and stop stop sharing for a second and we will take a look at the qat and see what’s going on there yes okay very good do you all want to go through I’m not seeing people use the the question thing here now as far as that goes dramatic music awesome okay now do you all want to kind of go through these events leading up to the American Revolution that would make the most sense here it looks like y’all are ready for the proclamation of 1763 and all of that kind of stuff okay so let me go ahead and open up the the next presentation here and we’ll go ahead and get into the road to the American Revolution okay this is gonna this is going to be helpful to us I think all right so let’s go ahead I want to give the people what they want yes we can certainly mention Pontiacs rebellion now Pontiacs rebellion is you know coming up well and here’s the other thing like it’s really kind of there’s a little bit of kind of going on at the same time I’ve you know the British already are aware let’s think but back to what we were talking about last night with the British and the French colonists now the French were friendly to the Indians friendly French all right and so the French if we think about General Patton leave me follow me or get out of the way all right so the French say leave me Indians we want to trade furs with you but we’re gonna be your friends you have some women over there we’d like to marry them okay and we’re not gonna send a lot of colonists like the French were not disruptive to Indian lifestyles and so then when you look at the at the British yes guest name whatever your name is the this is one thing you want to note is the French and Indian War ended with the Treaty of Paris 1763 and the American Revolutionary War ended 20 years later with the Treaty of Paris 1783 okay all right so as far as that as far as that goes Pontiacs rebellion okay in the proclamation line the British are aware their colonists when we think about Patton leave me follow me get out of my

way the British colonists are like get out of my way okay they come in and they start all these farms and they keep coming in droves they’re moving west okay so the British colonists are itching to move West because the whole catalyst of the war was the British and the French fighting over who was going to claim the Ohio River Valley and so the British cracked down okay the British crack down on this okay as far as as far as that goes yes so the British want to make sure that they don’t upset these Indians now if you want to look at point of view that the British colonists thought well now that we’ve defeated the French all this land is ours now the British colonial administration they’ve just sent troops to fight a war against France they don’t want to send more troops to fight a war against the Indians okay so yes 1763 and 1783 okay so French and Indian War 1763 and then 1783 American Revolution okay so it’s very easy remember that those two are exactly 20 years apart okay so let’s go ahead and get on to that but yes the proclamation line is banning folks from moving west all right so we’re gonna go ahead and share the screen again and I’m going to go on to this alright so and then I’ll probably you know move on as far as that at a certain point okay so the road to the American Revolution alright so how are we getting to the Declaration of Independence okay so the first thing we want to think about is the French and Indian War and so Wars cost money the British national debt the end of salutary neglect now the first thing that the British are going to do is going to be the proclamation line of 1763 we’re and remember to associate this with the Appalachian Mountains so the colonists are not going to be able to legally cross the Appalachian Mountains we see that there is an Indian reserve here across the Appalachian Mountains this land will be reserved for the Indians now Pontiacs rebellion is you know is going on around that same time you know in this in this territory so the British are trying to offer the Indians a little bit of space in hopes that you know there will not be any fighting that they can have trade and all of that stuff now the next thing remember to stay hydrated everybody the next thing is the quartering of troops okay so the British troops arrived and so Parliament resolved to keep troops in the colonies for their defense okay now the thing is for their defense but the colonists aren’t stupid they realize like what’s going on here okay so the Parliament now Monet made all kinds of great paint like he was an impressionist painter at the turn of the 20th century and he basically went to London and

painted the houses of parliament several days different days depending on what it looked like morning evening foggy day all that kind of stuff I picked this one because it kind of looks like Mordor doesn’t and anybody seen Lord of the Rings like Shire Baggins you know that sort of thing but anyway the first thing we want to look at and notice I like to present things in threes okay because we remember things in threes and we also want to think about you know the timing okay so this is the 1760s alright so in 1764 parliament passes the Sugar Act followed by the Stamp Act in 1765 and then the Townsend acts in 1767 now what I want to bring your attention to here is if you look at this table the Stamp Act is the one that’s going to cause the biggest uproar and that is because the Sugar Act and the Townsend acts these are import taxes and while people don’t like to pay taxes nobody really question Parliament’s authority to tax imports so you know you think about your parents there are some things they may tell you to do that is you know some things parents may tell you to do that you don’t like it but you realize you know what they have legitimate authority here and then there may be something else where you know this is exceeding that authority so molasses now molasses was you know now they’re still I tell you what I like some of that molasses syrup on my biscuits and stuff like that I come from the south but you know typically you don’t see this kind of sugar but this is typically what they were you know what they were importing now so the sugar act this was an import tax on foreign sugar um and also another thing about now one thing about the Sugar Act one thing that’s interesting is they actually cut the tax but they decided to enforce it okay so they cut the tax in half but they decide to enforce it so on paper the Sugar Act was the tax cut but the colonists weren’t stupid they knew what was going on and another thing here is that the Sugar Act stipulated that if you were caught smuggling sugar then you would be tried in an admiralty court you would not receive a jury trial and this was a sore spot because you go back to the Magna Carta which was a foundational document you know from the Middle Ages in England and the Magna Carta said that you know that there will not be taxation without can sent and that there will be trial by jury and so the Sugar Act wasn’t very popular but it’s not it’s not gonna result in the same kind of uproar as the Stamp Act okay so the Stamp Act was an internal tax on legal documents which prompted a great deal of mass resistance in the forms of boycotts and mob violence okay now this is where the Sons of Liberty come in and they’re tarring and feathering people they’re vandalizing property they’re

intimidating British tax collectors into resigning their positions now the Stamp Act has you know so much staying power here I easy ease first album you can see where they put the Stamp Act here now this was during the 1980s where they started putting the explicit lyrics stamp on on albums and so you know eazy-e is going you know is going back to that legacy of colonial America and he’s using this this was a protest thing where they had the stamp as a skull and crossbones and the rallying cry here is no taxation without representation now y’all listen up here because this is very important a lot of people are under the impression that colonists wanted representation and Parliament they did not want representation in Parliament what they wanted was for their own legislatures to tax okay so the taxing authority according to the colonists was here in their legislatures such as the Byrd Virginia House of Burgesses not here in the in the Parliament so essentially that the only legislative body with the authority to tax colonists was the colonial of the legislature of each of those colonies the British had never forced an internal tax on the colonists and to be clear you know the Stamp Act is this tax on like legal documents and other things requiring special paper and so it had not been ratified by the colonial legislatures so the colonists tended to see this as illegitimate and enter the Sons of Liberty okay this resist it’s movement for the guys where you see intimidation and mass protests now this here I want to note that we can see here when we’re analyzing documents we need to think about when we look at visual sources that there are there is you know you need to think about the point of view so when we look here we see that there is someone being tarred and feathered he’s being fed tea now remember teas hot you see this kind of Boston Tea Party thing going on there and this is a Liberty tree now this is where you know the Sons of Liberty and other Patriots would meet at the Liberty Tree or a Liberty Pole now notice the new cr1 thing that I think is very important when you’re looking at visual sources and that’s what I wanted to emphasize tonight is that we pick a detail okay so if you’re analyzing the source always consider whose side is this source on and we can see that the the looks on these colonists faces you see this colonists with a stick they look very evil this man here being tarred and feathered is the victim and remember tar in order to be all sticky and put on somebody it has to be hot this wasn’t just fun and games but when

you know if I were you know riding a DBQ or if I did a visual source saq I would mention the noose here and I would note how this is a you know this is portraying the Sons of Liberty and other Patriots as lawless and not committed to the rule of law so remember that visual sources have you know they have a point of view and that point of view is in the details and so the Sons of Liberty are sponsoring these mass protests and intimidation of British officials now the daughters of Liberty on what they would do is create homespun fabric in order to in order to assist the boycotts okay so a lot of people today go to you know thrift stores like you know I live in a college town and thrift stores are you know are in you know you have this thrift store and it may not be that somebody can’t afford to you know to buy new clothes but they like to go to the thrift store because it’s trendy now this is what happens here at the time you know that because of the Stamp Act it’s no longer fashionable now what would happen is your Washington’s and your Jefferson’s if you look at an early picture of Jefferson an early painting of Jefferson he’s got a powdered wig I’m and you know so you would buy these fashionable British clothes now at this time it becomes the thing to do to wear homespun fabric to wear those where this fabric that has been you know that has been created at home and sure it doesn’t look as you know flashy and fashionable but it does show that somebody is patriotic that somebody’s showing solidarity that you know my respect for the cause outweighs you know my intent you know my desire to look fashionable now here is a resignation here now this is with those old s’s before the American Revolution that the tax collector resigned now that tax collector resigned if we want to think about the context here of this document the context here is that this person has obviously been you know intimidated by the Sons of Liberty so you know this is the sort of thing that you want to be looking for if you see a document based question on the American Revolution that you’re thinking about what’s going on there so this document is not going to say that Andrew Oliver Esquire has been intimidated but you should kind of put all of that together and that’s what it means when you’re going into a documents context now the Stamp Act was repealed in 1766 and we see here the burial of the Stamp Act the Stamp Act is portrayed as a baby and they are putting that into a coffin okay so you can see here I mean this is somebody who is you know sympathetic to the you know to the

colonies and there is a dog that it looks like it’s uh you know it’s lifting its leg or something it’s uh you know dogs often appear in these sort of things here so Evers doing this is not a big fan of the Stamp Act you can also see with these you know with these skulls here all right that everything looks a very sinister there on the British side and so then in order to make up for that lost revenue the Townsend acts which is another import tax okay so Parliament repeals the Stamp Act to try to encourage trade and then the Townsend acts put put a tax on paper paint lead glass and tea now do you have to know all of that stuff you know if you want to make a three knowing the Stamp Act is probably enough but if you’re looking to make a five if you’re riding like a Nellie Q or a DBQ on the I you know on the American Revolution and the lead in you know it’s good to know stuff like this paper paint LED glass tea you know how hard is that to remember and so the Sons of Liberty returned and the British the British troops because of the unrest dealing with the Townsend acts British troops land in Boston and that leads us to the Boston Massacre now we love being Americans we are proud of our Revolution but at the same time you know these British soldiers when they were put on trial they were found not guilty because they were being harassed by this rowdy Boston mob you know these dock workers and the like and so as far as that as far as that goes we see here that our most prominent source material out here is made by Paul Revere a Boston silversmith and a member of the Sons of Liberty so Paul Revere created this engraving and I want to take a quick look at this again as a visual source and we want to remember that visual sources have POV visual sources have purpose people create art for a reason so if we look here and again we should know that the context here is that British soldiers are being harassed at night I’m and it was originally one or two that were standing guard and other British soldiers had to come and provide relief they were throwing snowballs I sticks I’m you know at these soldiers and they were taunting them trying to get them to fire and so in the night there are only so many times that a mob has to yell at you to fire before you do it now let’s look though at how Paul Revere with this point of view of a member of the Sons of Liberty we see that the British soldiers are portrayed as being very neatly lined up ok very neatly lined up I you know you see a little bit of red there now of course could be for the firing but you know that also is the color of blood now if we look up here we see right above here now note the captain who has got his

sword raised it looks like you get this mental picture of the British just marching up there you know let’s go kill some colonists I mean you see here butchers halt okay so this being able to identify a source like this as propaganda is it is important and to be able to point out details now if we look here here this mob looks very helpless you know and it looks like you know we’ve got a woman here on portrayed in the middle and of course again a dog just kind of randomly there but the colonists it looks like these people are distraught they’re carrying these bodies away you know which notice this got picking up this body and carrying it away while these guys are firing I’ve you know hands up you know don’t shoot here you know they’re they’re so like passive and they’re being you know the whole reason it’s called the Boston Massacre is because of this propaganda and so then when we look here now the other thing is it looks like it’s going on in broad daylight there’s plenty of light but then Paul Revere would tell you well look at that I put a moon there now the thing is where Paul Revere put the moon is right here in the far corner where most people are not going to notice it so even though the moon is technically there let’s not kid ourselves it looks like this is happening in broad daylight and so when we analyze a visual source we need to think about the point of view that it’s coming from the context surrounding it so you could you know in order to get that document context point or going into the historical situation as they tend to call it now you know you would go into that this was not as organized as it looks that the and then also perhaps that the soldiers were found not guilty and so going from there now let’s just take a quick moment to remember our dearly departed friend Harambee I’ve you know who my goodness but anyway a not guilty verdict and with one exception the Townsend acts will repealed paper paint lead glass and tea the tax on tea remained because frankly people need their caffeine and at the time you know tea was the predominant caffeine source for the colonies and so as far as that goes the British they leave the tax on tea because they want to make sure that they’re noting that they can tax it’s kind of like for those of you looking to make a five you might know you might remember the declaratory act which Parliament passed after repealing the Stamp Act saying that we do reserve the right to tax so that takes us through that initial period leading to the American Revolution and then I can get into the you know the road to revolution there starting with the Tea Act but let me check the queue a real quick and make sure that I’m not that I’m not missing anything let’s take a quick look at that QA all right so yes

I am going to share all of these powerpoints and we’ll put that stuff we’ll put that stuff all on there all right Ryan good use of red ink and all of that kind of oh y’all are so funny I tell you I like seeing all of these all of these jokes remember that laughter is a good study tool okay so for those of you that are looking at memes and you’re making jokes and stuff like that you know that’s uh yeah I tell you what that’s oh goodness um but but anyway yeah let’s go ahead it looks like I’m doing my job here I’m gonna go ahead and come on now the Harambee meme is not racist give me a break uh you know so you know let’s go ahead and share my screen again and get over there okay y’all y’all be respectful of Harambee okay Aidan don’t make me kick you buddy don’t make me kick you let’s be respectful of our dear friend harambe all right so as far as that goes ladies and gentlemen I’m let’s go ahead and take a look at the road to revolution I tell you what y’all are quite a bunch here and it’s good it’s good to have a little fun together isn’t it all right so the road to revolution okay so in 1773 you’ve got the Tea Act you have followed by the Boston Tea Party and then let me make sure here it looks like I need to minimize this so that y’all can see that all right so the Tea Act followed by the Boston Tea Party and then the Intolerable Acts and the first the First Continental Congress okay I’m and so going with that the Tea Act gave a monopoly to the British you know the British East India Company all right so Parliament grants a monopoly they thought they were doing the colonists a favor they thought that like you know because what they did is Parliament’s friends and the British East India Company they need to get rid of these circles of surplus T and so Parliament’s like okay we’ll give you a monopoly as long as you sell the tea for cheap but remember that when Jefferson writes in the declaration life liberty and the pursuit of happiness this includes that you know if I want to buy expensive tea I can buy whatever tea I want okay that I’m you know personally I’m a big tea drinker and I would resent somebody telling me what tea I’m going to drink acting like they’re doing me a favor because you want to do me a favor let me be free to drink whatever tea I want and if I want to pay a lot of money for my tea and even if the tea’s not as good that is my right as an American the pursuit of happiness at the end of the day ladies and gentlemen is economic freedom it’s the freedom to purchase whatever you want and so the Boston Tea Party in 1763 I mean 1773 now this is one thing to know that Parliament taxing the colonies is the 1760s a lot of times I find learning by decade to be a good thing so 1760s and so as far as that as far as that goes Parliament grants this monopoly the pot

the Boston Tea Party now the Intolerable Acts in 1774 you have a state of martial law now this is where we get into the differences between a three and a five okay so the Intolerable Acts knowing that they they were punishment for the Boston Tea Party you know that’s probably enough to make a three on this exam now for those of you that are trying to make a five and you’re studying everything now one thing I would note is the names of these different intolerable acts are less important than what they did so first of all there was the Boston port act which closed the port of Boston the Massachusetts Government Act which placed Massachusetts under martial law under military rule now the quartering act now the quartering act was an act that was that was passed it wasn’t the first quartering act it’s kind of like if you think about in 1850 the Fugitive Slave Law that was passed was not the first Fugitive Slave Law ever passed it was just stricter and so the new quartering act the old quartering act had basically said that the colonies need to provide quarters and so this quartering act said that the British authorities can designate quarters so if they see an abandoned warehouse or something like that they can say that we’re using this okay we’re gonna use this to quarter our troops on the administration of justice Act which said that any British official that was accused of a crime in the colonies was going to be brought back to Britain for trial and this was especially insulting to the colonies because the Bostonians had given a fair trial to the people who were involved in the Boston Massacre so this was very insulting to them now another insult here notice that I’ve got the Quebec act a little bit different of a color I’m is that the Quebec Act was not necessarily something for the you know that applied to the colonies directly but those of you have brothers and sisters you know sometimes your parents may punish you by punishing you directly but other times you know they’ll they’ll do something special for one of your siblings okay and they’ll basically do that to kind of remind you what happens when people do what they want them to do and that sort of thing there okay so as far as that as far as that’s going let’s see is John is JC watching this thing JC sent me a text I don’t know if he’s watching or not but if he is hey – JC and all of my friends at Chapin high school alright and so as far as this goes what we see here is millet this is a cartoon military law we see that this this Indian who represents you know you would think okay who is this representing I guess it’s representing the you know the colonies uh you know and you can kind of presume that from this now there is you know somebody that is you know Lady Liberty or somebody else who can’t even look at it and so that we see the

colonies are being fed this T the Boston port bill so this is an anti Intolerable Acts cartoon now the Minuteman okay this is the mollies or the militia forces that were typically they were they were there you know first organized really out in the western towns and villages as defense against Indian attacks and such but these Minutemen start to drill in case that they have to fight the British and so these Minutemen are drilling and with the British decide is you can’t let you can’t let these people have firearms and military equipment if we’re gonna have martial law okay that sounds a little bit too much like a free society of some sort so we’ve got to go and take their military equipment so the like the battles of Lexington and Concord they were fought because the British commander ordered the British to go and take the Arsenal at Concord where the colonists had a store of weapons and to spike the cannons to take all the ammunition and get rid of it and you know all of that so now what happened though is that and it was it was possibly General Thomas gages wife um who was the who was the spot um who alerted folks that you know Paul Revere and the other riders are getting out there and you know alerting people that the British are coming so it’s not a surprise now Lexington is kind of a thermopylae style delaying engagement okay so that’s why they call the battles of Lexington and Concord they’re going on at the same time in Lexington all they’ve got to do is fire a couple shots and hold off the British so that the colonists can make a stand at Concord of course at Lexington and Cutts called the shot heard round the world and then finally the battle here at the knoll north bridge now the British eventually turned around because they were not they didn’t have orders to engage the colonists and so the British turn around and they take a great many casualties on the retreat side of it okay and so this is really this chain of events leading to the American Revolution of course there are some other things going on such as you know Bunker Hill and some other things but you know this is really there’s this gap between I’ve only got a limited amount of time in these webinars but there is a gap between April of 75 and July of 1776 when the Declaration of Independence is issued and I’ve already mentioned how Thomas Paine is bringing about this you know how Thomas Paine is helping to motivate the colonists here all right so I tell you what I am a big you know I’m a big fan of that you know of that am scope all right so as far as as far as that goes ladies and gentlemen I can do a few things to kind of clean up here let me look at the Declaration of Independence er okay so let me see which one let make sure that I’m looking at

the at the right thing here I’m alright I’ve just one second remember ask any questions if you’ve got them and let me sorry about this I am alright so we already talked about Thomas Paine let’s just now remember also that the Declaration of Independence you know is articulating John Locke’s theory of natural rights okay and so as far as that let me go let me know a few legacies of the American Revolution okay so let’s see what we’ve got what we’ve got here um yes definitely josè productions I’m a big fan of Joe’s productions mr. Betts class is gonna be joining me for an a push review session in Miami I’m this this Sunday information about that’s on my website so I’m gonna actually be leading a live review with mr. Betts class and it’s gonna be awesome yes so mr. Betts class and I’ll be sharing the stage on on Sunday in Miami informations available on my website I tell you what a big fan of hip used to and I’m gonna be broadcasting with hip Hughes before this is all said and done so stay tuned go to Tom Ricci dotnet slash a book ok ladies and gentlemen can you hear me can you hear me ok so I am back sorry about that it looks like I got cut off and let me go and cheer my camera there alright so we’re back excellent excellent he’s back alright so go ahead go ahead and share my screen with you and let’s just talk about for a bit the legacies of the American Revolution okay and so a few things that I want to emphasize here all right that what difference did the American Revolution make all right so let’s see here some reason I’m not

all right what difference did the American Revolution make lots of things here I’m going to kind of paint over this the broad brush and kind of look over a few things here now first of all republicanism okay republicanism now note that small are this is not a monarchy and so there’s not a monarchy there’s a limited government under the control of the people that focuses on individual rights representative government and a patriotic virtuous and educated citizenry now egalitarianism now a monarchy you know is inherently aristocratic now what we’re gonna see is that you know the United States certainly maintain some arrow some degree of aristocracy in the early republic but at least in terms of and this is the thing here that even Jefferson wrote about a natural aristocracy Jefferson didn’t think that like everyone should have equal you know voting rights he didn’t necessarily have a problem with property qualifications for voting and stuff like that but at least this idea that all men are created equal and entitled to some kind of equality under the wall as part of the political community so what we see here is that no title of nobility shall be granted by the United States and no person holding any office or profit or trust under them shall without the consent of Congress except of any present emolument office or title of any kind whatsoever all right so no primogeniture for titles okay so the other thing with you know primogenitor with you know the firstborn receiving most the inheritance now as far as slavery which of course is you know a big source of controversy between the revolution the civil war on by 1800 nearly every state north of the mason-dixon line passed laws providing for gradual emancipation of slaves now note that very few of these states emancipated slaves immediately this was done very slowly and the other thing to remember is that the slave population in any of these states never exceeded I think maybe New York had about six or seven percent or something like that yeah I’ve got some stuff here okay so in the north you know now another thing to note here let me just note since I referenced this that you know basically yeah you’ve got New York and New Jersey I’ve you know with you know neither one of the none of these states has an african-american population above 8% now note here also that few northern states allowed flit free black residents to vote and some even banned free blacks settlement I’ve been into their states now meanwhile slavery is going to become more entrenched in the south so this is gonna be a dividing point here between the north and the south now religious freedom is another legacy of the American Revolution Thomas Jefferson wrote the Virginia statute for religious freedom in 1786 which disestablished the Anglican Church in Virginia i man said that no one shall be

compelled to practice a religion the Virginia statute of religious freedom was one of three accomplishments that Jefferson wanted on his epitaph note that his presidency is not one of them the Declaration of Independence the statute for religious freedom and the University of Virginia so the things Jefferson did for freedom not the offices that Jefferson held okay not there and so then women in the revolution you know you got the story of molly Pitcher Nancy Morgan Hart if any of you are from Georgia the only Georgia County named for a woman I’m and so now also Abigail Adams was very hopeful that maybe this revolution would go a little further because you know women were not part of the political community a married woman couldn’t own or manage her property there were only very limited cases where a woman could own property tended to be a woman who was unmarried and didn’t have any male Guardians and so Abigail Adams allowed herself to be optimistic in a letter to her husband that I desire that you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors so Abigail Adams is the one who wrote remember the ladies now women are not gonna vote yet they’re not gonna vote for over a century after this I’m that that’s not gonna be till the 19th amendment passed in 1920 now things do change a bit for women you know you see Republican now not big our Republican small R Republican not Sarah Palin Republican Republican as in we are all Republicans okay strong families make a strong Republic and you know Jefferson who was in the books I wrote that if a nation expects to be ignorant and free it expects what never was and never will be now a mother was supposed to provide the primary education for her sons who would be good Republican citizens and so if a woman’s going to provide the primary education for her son then she also needs to get educated herself now agrarianism is another thing that you know this whole idea of venerating the plow and the agrarian lifestyle Jefferson wrote that those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God and even George Washington presented himself primarily as a farmer he designed this epic sixteen sided barn for threshing wheat at Mount Vernon this is my favorite thing ever I love this barn okay it’s almost like I should get Toby Keith to write a song or something like that and so you know just so much cool stuff about this barn and Washington note that the way Washington won’t be sculpted was in a manner of Republican simplicity okay and so the thing is note that on this US sculpture of Washington and Maddie I know we’re running out of time this will be the last thing that I that I do here so we’ll be wrapping up in just a bit that Washington is showing republicanism here he wants to be shown as an ordinary

farmer like Washington is rich he was I mean now George Washington is the second richest pres in the United States but before Donald Trump became president George Washington was the richest man ever to occupy the presidency but he’s being shown as a simple farmer note that he’s got he’s got a belly in here okay now in the 1840s there was somebody that sculpted Washington is a great God people did not like this because it did not project simple Republican agrarianism and so Washington doesn’t want to bring tension that he’s richer than you he is serving the public much like Cincinnatus the old Roman dictator who only served for 16 days and then surrendered the the faucets the side of authority and so Washington’s surrendered his commission after the Revolutionary War after two terms he stepped down from the presidency and so we see here also these statues they are showing the Roman faucets the bundle of sticks that Washington has 13 and noticed that Washington’s sculpture also has a plow so Washington wanted to be seen as a farmer a soldier a legend okay so as far as that goes ladies and gentlemen that goes into the legacies of the American Revolution and remember that although the American Revolution is not as radical as the French Revolution the Russian Revolution or something like that you know there is a you know there certainly I you know if there are some changes as a result of this and largely in the way of republicanism so as far as that goes I hope that y’all have enjoyed our broadcast this evening I’m glad I can help now remember to you know check out my website Tom Burnett /a Bush and also the Bill of Rights Institute has a lot of great resources for you and Maddie do you want to close us out all right hey guys thank you so much for coming tonight like Tom said you can go ahead and check out tens website for additional resources you can also check out the Bill of Rights Institute website the Bill of Rights Institute YouTube page which I believe I posted that link in the Q&A box you guys can go ahead and access that for a push for mark help series that’s going to be a really great resource for you and please make sure you check out tomorrow’s webinar happening at 6:30 and we’ll go ahead and we’ll see you there