2. Voices of protests –
Boston Tea Party
Violence for speaking out –
Boston Massacre
3. • "Revolutionary Tea"
There was a rich lady lived over the sea,
• And she was an island queen.
• Her daughter lived off on the new country,
• With an ocean if water between,
• With an ocean if water between.
•
• Now mother dear mother," the daughter replied,
• "I shan't do the thing you ax.
• I'm willing to pay a fair price for the tea,
• But never the three-penny tax.
• But never the three-penny tax."
•
• "Oh, mother, dear mother," quoth she,
• "Your tea you may have when 'tis steep'd quite enough
• But never a tax from me,
• But never a tax from me."
4. “…for no man, or society of men, having a power to deliver
up their preservation, or consequently the means of it, to
the absolute will and arbitrary dominion of another;
whenever any one shall go about to bring them into such a
slavish condition, they will always have a right to preserve
what they have not a power to part with; and to rid
themselves of those who invade this fundamental, sacred,
and unalterable law of self-preservation, for which they
entered into society. And thus the community may be said
in this respect to be always the supreme power…”
John Locke, Second Treatise, §149
5. • “Government is a
necessary evil”
• “Seek complete
independence
rather than fight
unfair taxation by
Britain”
• -Thomas Paine
6. Voltaire’s Influences
“All men are created equal”
-Declaration of Independence
Belief in religion and freedom
from government influenced
-1st Amendment to the Constitution
7. The Founding Fathers, through the hand of Thomas
Jefferson, and the ideas of Locke, Paine, and Voltaire,
created a document that set forth the basis for the
English colonies’ Declaration of Independence.
8. “No taxation without representation”
“Give me liberty or give me death”
- Patrick Henry
“We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang
separately”
- Benjamin Franklin
9. The original American protest gave birth to movements
across the country and around the world -
