Chapter 12 Flashcards
Thomas Paine
-firebrand
-from England, to Philadelphia
-deist with quaker friends
Deist is a belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe
-ran away and went to sea (did not work out)
-tried many jobs was never successful
-grocer, sailor, school teacher, tobacco seller, and corset maker
-very intelligent
-avid reader
-After he met Ben Franklin in London, he wanted to move to america
-Wrote a pamphlet called Common Sense
-deep beliefs
-enlisted in the Continental army
-was not rich, gave 3rd of salary to help Washington’s army
-humble
Sam Adams
- Started committees of correspondence
- Started the sons of liberty
- started trouble for british
- agitator
- fire brand
- helped brew up the Boston Tea Party
- fought against stamp act
- Humpty Dumpty looking (pudgy)
- New Englander from Boston; Puritan background
- important family (cousin of John Adams; husband of Abigal Adams)
- didnt care about business
- English called him a public enemy, an outlaw, a rebel
- The english wanted to hang him
- Wanted a nation where for the first time in history people would truly rule themselves
- Harvard man, old roots in young country
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Patrick Henry
- firebrand
- southerner, Anglican, a Virginian
- a country boy
- very religious
- raised on a Virginia frontier farm
- “forest-born Demosthenes”(demosthenes was a great fighter for freedom from Greece)
- previous jobs as store keeper and planter was not successful with either
- passion for fiddling, dancing, and pleasantry
- studied law
- entered politics
- excellent speaker
- was elected to the House of Burgesses
- famous for is stamp act speech
- the english governor of Virginia threatened him but he kept talking and kept fighting for what he thought was right
Committees of Correspondence
- Sam Adams organized/ started this group
- groups of prominent citizens who wrote back and forth between colonies and helped each other with problems
- As a result of writing the letters the leaders come together and realize they have much in common
- they come together as one and are unified
Common Sense
- a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine
- written because the colonists were beginning to separate from England but they kept second guessing themselves and they were not sure what to do
- Thomas Paine wanted the colonists to realize all the terrible things the british have done to them and they wanted to be logical on their decision
- A whole lot of copies of Common Sense were sold in a very short time
“Give me liberty or give me death”
- This is line was said by Patrick Henry
- It means give me freedom or kill me
- a true fighter
- not going to give up on what he wants
“If this be treason, make the most of it”
- If you do something wrong take full advantage
- If you do not like something might as well make the most of it
- you have to do what you have to do
- rather win than lose
propaganda
- exaggerate the truth
- get them excited
- to promote a political event
- Thomas Paine’s speech is a propaganda
- Patrick Henry’s Common Sense a propaganda
Sons of Liberty
group formed by Sam Adams
colonists who wanted to promote freedom for the colonists
met under tree in Boston
the liberty tree
british eventually chopped the liberty tree down
