1. Inspired by Thomas Paine’s Common Sense 2. 2nd Continental Congress ask Thomas Jefferson to write this break-up letter
1. Minutemen and Sons of Liberty 2. The Shot Heard Round the World
1. Boston punished for throwing a Tea Party 2. Port closed, Quartering Act 3. Sympathy from other 12
1. Colonists (like GW) fight for the British 2. Proclamation of 1763 3. French + Indians vs the British + Indians
1. British troops fire on rock-throwing crowd. 2. John Adams (a Patriot) defends British troops...and finds them NOT guilty
1. KGIII makes colonists pay for war 2. Sugar, Stamp, and a boycott 3. no taxation without representation
