Understanding The Transition:  The War For The Rights of British Citizenship (W.F.R.B.C.) (4/75) to the W for I (7/76)

 

Background:

 


Dec. 16, 1773                          The Boston Tea Party (eyewitness account)

 


 


May 1774                                Gov. / Gen. Gage arrives in Boston…bye bye to whom?

 

 

  For extra-credit #1, who is this man to the left?

 

June 1774                                Intolerable (Coersive) Acts passed       

·        C’s of C “step it up”

·        “13 clocks start to begin ticking in unison” (as the man below put it…)

 For extra-credit #2, who is this Patriot and future President to the left?

 

 

 


Sept./Oct. ’74                          1st C.C. meets

·        Suffolk Reserves passed

o       I.A. unconst.

o       Advise people to arm

o       Urge general economic sanctions

·        Continental Assoc. formed

o       As of 12/1/74, no more imports

o       If no resolution repealing the Intol. Acts by 9/75, no exports (hesitations of So. Carolina)

·        Dec. of Rights and Grievances summarizing position on the events of the last decade…urging the King to use his “royal authority and interposition” to protect his loyal subjects in America.

 

 


Late ’74 – Early ’75                 Tory vs. Whig debate sharpens as colonists take sides on the Continental Assoc. (a look at the Loyalists)

                                               

                                                Massachusetts Reactions in the wake of the Intolerable Acts

·        Oct. ’74 – Committee of Safety formed (John Hancock)

·        Minutemen companies forming

·        Anti-Loyalist Rhetoric / Violence increasing…  For extra-credit #3, who is this loyalist Governor or New Jersey shown above…hint:  He was estranged from his well known father throughout the American Revolution.

 

Still Hope?  -- P.M. Lord North’s Conciliatory Proposition (contribute voluntarily and everything will be “all good”)

                                    “Too Little Too Late?” (The Response of the 1st Cont. Congress. To The C.P.)

 

April 19, 1775                          General Gage marches on Lexington / Concord – the WFRBC is on!

 

Why still the WFRBC?   

 

 

 

 

 

May 10, 1775                          The 2nd Continental Congress Meets

·        De facto gov’t established (post office, currency)

·        President “Mr. Big Signature” in charge (referring to whom?)

·        Adopts the Mass. M-men outside Boston and appoints G.W. to command (Understand why he was an attractive choice)

 

o       June 17, 1775 – but before G.W. arrives to assume command is the B of B Hill (1000 vs. 400…3rd time a charm in the Brit. “victory”)

·        July 5 – O.B.P. passed (get to know John Dickinson)

·        July 6 – D.C.N.T.U.A. adoped (“no ambitious designs of separating from Britain”)

o       Thus, still technically the W.F.R.B.C.!

o       But the Cont. Cong. does reject that Conciliatory Proposition by Lord North at this point

 

 

August 23, 1775                                   George III then rejects the O.B.P., proclaiming the American colonies to be in rebellion and urged that all efforts should be made “to suppress such rebellion, and bring the traitors to justice.”

 

 

Winter 1775 – 1776                             Understand:  Some Early WFRBC Fighting…Ex: (Map 139 of your text)

·        Ticonderoga (60 x 300 to Boston and Gage is “Audi” to Nova Scotia)

o       Next Goal:  Return to take NYC

·        Great Bridge (near Norfolk)

o       A Civil War? Incentive to Slaves?

·        Montreal (yeah) and Quebec (nay)

 

December 1775                                   Prohibitory Act is passed

 

 

 

 

AND THUS IT BEGINS TO DAWN ON COLONISTS (JANUARY 1776)…NOT JUST TO “SONS OF LIBERTY TYPES”,,,THAT FIGHTING A WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE AS OPPOSED TO A WAR FOR THE RIGHTS OF BRITISH CITIZENSHIP IS INCREASINGLY A MATTER OF…..WHAT??? …

 

Hint:  There is no such thing as the legitimate existence of a “divine right of kings” and you can put that in your “piggy bank” and LOCKE it up!…Go Down The Page To See The Answer…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COMMON SENSE

(READ IT!)

 

Followed By

The D of I (see it for yourself!!!)