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Delegates

Delegates. Galloway Plan of Union The first order of business was consideration of Pennsylvania Joseph Galloway's plan for the creation of an American Parliament to act in concert with the existing British body.

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Delegates

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  1. Delegates

  2. Galloway Plan of Union The first order of business was consideration of Pennsylvania Joseph Galloway's plan for the creation of an American Parliament to act in concert with the existing British body. • colonies hold in abhorrence the idea of being considered independent of the British government • desire a political union, not only among themselves but with the mother state • chose principles of freedom which are essential in the constitution of all free governments

  3. Suffolk Resolves • Before the Galloway proposal could be decided, Paul Revere rode into town bearing the Suffolk Resolves, a series of political statements that had been forwarded to Philadelphia by a number of Boston-area communities. • Coercive Acts to be unconstitutional and void • urged Massachusetts to establish a separate free state until the Coercive Acts were repealed • future tax collections be retained by the new Massachusetts government and not passed along to British officials • boycott of British goods and trade • people of Massachusetts to appoint militia officers and armed volunteers • warned General Thomas Gage that efforts to arrest citizens on political charges would result in the detention of the arresting officers

  4. Declaration of Rights and Grievances • The Congress composed a statement of American complaints. • It was addressed to King George III, to whom the delegates remained loyal, and pointedly, not to Parliament. In it, the delegates asserted that the colonists had certain rights which included, "life, liberty, and property, and they have never ceded to any sovereign power whatever a right to dispose of either without their consent."

  5. Olive Branch Petition July 1775 • John Dickinson PA • appeal to King George III • list of colonial grievances • America and British relations - “wonder and envy of other nations” • ***Reconciliation with the British / Loyalty to Crown • *** CC sympathetic approval / King George III reject- Quebec factor

  6. Thomas Paine Common Sense January 1776 Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776 Second Continental Congress Thomas Jefferson / Ben Franklin / Robert Livingston / John Adams / Roger Sherman

  7. Treaty of Paris 1783 Conclusion of Revolutionary War Franklin • American Independence is recognized / boundaries Mississippi and Lakes • British pledge to vacate all military posts in the New World • America pledge to ask states to make fair settlement for loss of land Adams Jay Critical Period in America

  8. United States of America Articles of Confederation

  9. The Articles of Confederation America’s 1st Constitution 1781-1789 • The Articles had 2 major achievements: • Bringing the Revolutionary War to a successful conclusion • North West Ordinance (plan for governing the western lands)

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