2. America’s Road towards Freedom
French and Indian War
Proclamation of 1763
Taxation without Representation
Boston Massacre
Immanuel Kant
3. America’s Road towards Freedom
French and Indian War
◦ This war was the beginning of the hostilities between the
colonies, Great Britain, and France. The war eventually turned
into the worldwide conflict of the Seven years war.
◦ This is also where the Americans began to realize that Great
Britain’s empire was not unstoppable.
Proclamation of 1763
Taxation without Representation
Boston Massacre
Immanuel Kant
4. America’s Road towards Freedom
French and Indian War
Proclamation of 1763
◦ The end of the French and Indian war was a cause for
celebration throughout the colonies but the
celebration was quickly dampened by the
proclamation of 1763. This proclamation closed off
the frontier to colonial expansion. It was also
proposed by the king of Great Britain and his council
to calm the fears of the Indians.
Taxation without Representation
Boston Massacre
Immanuel Kant
5. America’s Road towards Freedom
French and Indian War
Proclamation of 1763
Taxation without Representation
◦ A slogan which summarized how the colonists felt
about the British’s unfair taxation policies. Colonists
felt that since there was no direct representation of
Great Britain so they had no right to tax them.
Boston Massacre
Immanuel Kant
6. America’s Road towards Freedom
French and Indian War
Proclamation of 1763
Taxation without Representation
Boston Massacre
◦ This uprising was also known as the Boston riot. An
increase in British troops occupying Boston was on the
rise and this angered the colonists. Eventually The Red
Coats opened fire on the enraged colonists and killed
five of them. This massacre sparked conflicts in other
colonies and helped to provoke the revolutionary war.
Immanuel Kant
7. America’s Road towards Freedom
French and Indian War
Proclamation of 1763
Taxation without Representation
Boston Massacre
Immanuel Kant
◦ One of the most influential philosophers of the
western hemisphere. He contributed to metaphysics,
epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics; they had a large
impact on the philosophical movement that followed
him. His fundamental idea was his “critical
philosophy”. He argues that human understanding is
what creates general laws and that human reason
gives itself moral law.
8. Revolutionary Literature
During this era, the colonists went beyond the old
Puritan style of writing.
The people became more into Science, Nature,
Freedom, and Politics.
They also created a new one way form of speaking,
instead of copying the more formal style of British
writers.
Some notable writers in this era included: Benjamin
Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine.
9. Revolutionary Writings vs. Puritan Writings
Revolutionary Puritan
◦ More open and free ◦ More religion based
for creativity ◦ Ordinary and
◦ New form of simple writing
writing
10. Who is Thomas Jefferson?
He was born on April 13, 1743 at Shadwell in Goochland, now
Albemarle, County, Va.
Born into a rich family of planters, who owned many slaves.
Had a supposed relationship with a slave, Sally Hemings.
He attended and graduated at the College of William and
Mary, in Williamsburg, Va.
He studied law and was very much into writing.
He was, at one point, the Governor of Virginia, the first
Secretary of State under George Washington, and was one of
the Founding Fathers.
11. Thomas Jefferson,
as a Writer
List of other works
Writing style
Use of parallelism
Use of changed words
12. Thomas Jefferson,
as a Voice of Freedom
Inspired people
Directly against the king
Commited direct treason to get his point
across
13. The Declaration of Independence,
a Piece of Literature
Break down the writing
