Declaring Independence

After sharing our work on the Liberty documents, we summarized Foner by making a list of British actions and American responses leading to independence . To illustrate the violence of some American responses we watched this scene from the John Adams miniseries.
We then talked about the decision to declare independence, watching John Adams' argument to the Continental Congress in favor of it (you can also read the text of his speech here).
We finished class by taking a close look at the Declaration of Independence which you can find on page 38 of AR or here, using these questions.