Chapter 4 section 2 - Ideas Help Start a Revolution

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Second Continental Congress

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a meeting of representatives from the 13 colonies that took was a governing body for the United States

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Was the Olive Branch Petition was too little too late?

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yes - the colonies were already in rebellion

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Common Sense

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an anonymous 50-page pamphlet that attacked King George III

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Why do you think that Common Sense was so effective?

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independence would give Americans the chance to create a better society - more freedom

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Thomas Jefferson

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Virginia lawyer who was chosen to write the Declaration of Independence

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What reasons did Thomas Jefferson give to justify revolt by the colonies?

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the British king had violated the “unalienable rights” of the Americans

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How did the thinking of the Loyalists differ from that of the Patriots?

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-- they thought that the British were going to win the war

-- protect their rights more effectively