A Nation Is Born
... Act was still enabled and eventually eneded up in the major revolt know as the Bostion Tea Party 6. 1774 = the First Continental Congress e. The Shot Heard Round the World 1. in 1775 in Lexington the first shot was fired between the two armys 2. the British defeated us and then marched onto Concord 3. In June the Americans wounded more than a thousand British at the Battle of Bunker Hill 4. Chief of army = George Washington 5. After six years of fighting the war finally came to an end at Yorktown f. The New Nation 1. Artricles of Confederation eastablised a league of friendship among the new states 2. the Constitution replaced them 3. George Washington became first president Literature of the Period g. A Time of Crisis 1. public writing was commonly produced 2. Mind of the nation was on politics h. Politics as Literature 1. Otis defended colonial rights 2. Patrick Henry was a spellbinding orator whose speech against the Stamp Act brought cries of Treason 3. Thomas Paine was perhaps more influential than any writer ever. 4. The Declaration of Independence was first drafted by Thomas Jefferson 5. Ratification was the main difficulty for the Constitution. 6. James Madison wrote several papers on the the Constitutio...