Founding Fathers Background

1. Patriot’s Pen
FOUNDING FATHERS

2. PATRIOTS PEN
“What I Would Tell America’s
Founding Fathers.”

3. FOUNDING FATHERS?
 The Founding Fathers of the United
States of America were political leaders
and statesmen who participated in the
American Revolution by signing the United
States Declaration of Independence,
taking part in the American Revolutionary
War, and establishing the United States
Constitution.

4. AMERICAN REVOLUTION
 The American Revolution was the political
upheaval during the last half of the 18th
century in which thirteen colonies in North
America joined together to break free from
the British Empire, combining to become the
United States of America.

5. DECLARATION OF INDEPENCE
 The Declaration of Independence was a
statement adopted by the Continental
Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced
that the thirteen American colonies regarded
themselves as independent states, and no
longer a part of the British Empire

6. AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR
The American Revolutionary
War (1775–1783), began as a
war between the Kingdom of
Great Britain and the United
States of America The main
result was an American victory.

7. UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION
 The Constitution of the United States is the
supreme law of the United States of America. The
first three Articles of the Constitution establish the
rules and separate powers of the three branches of
the federal government.
 The Constitution was adopted on September 17,
1787, by the Constitutional Convention in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It went into effect on
March 4, 1789.
 The Constitution guides American society in law and
political culture.

8. KEY FOUNDING FATHERS
 John Adams
 Benjamin Franklin
 Alexander Hamilton
 John Jay
 Thomas Jefferson
 James Madison
 George Washington.