The Great AwakeningJonathan Edwards

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The Great Awakening-Jonathan Edwards
"the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God."
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The Enlightenment
Sir Isaac Newton
Benjamin Franklin
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Women
Queen Annes War
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Robert Walpole, Salutary Neglect
The French and Indian War 1754-1760
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Pontiac
The Sugar Act of 1764
The Stamp Act 1765
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DECLARATORY ACT full power and authority to make
laws and statutes of sufficient force and
validity to bind the colonies and people of
America, subjects of the crown of Great Britain,
in all cases whatsoever Followed By Townshend
Acts
lead, paint, paper, glass and tea
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The Boston Massacre
1770
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The Boston Tea Party 1773
Samuel Adams
Led to the Intolerable ActsCoercive Acts
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1st Continental Congress
Lexington and Concorde
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Thomas Paine-Common Sense
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The Declaration of Independence
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British Strengths

• Up to 50,000 British Soldiers In America
• Up to 30,000 Hessians
• Loyalists-Tories 1 in 4 at the Most
• Many Colonists Too Busy To Care
• Iroquois Confederacy Split

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American Colonial Strengths?

• Smaller Army, Continentals at Most 19,000, At
  Times 5,000
• Militia Seasonal
• Small Navy
• BUT.

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Americans

• Only Had to Fight a War of Defense to Wear Out
  Enemy, Take Away Military and an Idea
• British Had to Import Everything
• Country Side Good for Guerilla Warfare
• US Would Get Foreign Aid

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Early Fighting
General Howe-England
George Washington America
Washington Pushes Howe out of Boston, but Howe
Attacks New York, Driving Washington into New
Jersey and Pennsylvania
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Battles of Trenton and Princeton
Both American Victoriesbut then.
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Howe Occupies Philadelphia
Washingtons Army Endures Defeat and a Harsh
Winter in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, But Help
is on the Way
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American General Horatio Gates defeats British at
Saratoga..
Causing the French to Ally with the Americans
Marquis de Lafayette
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Benedict Arnold
General Cornwallis Surrenders 8,000 Troops to
Washington at the Battle Of Yorktown, Virginia
October 19, 1781
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Treaty of Paris, September 1783
More Liberty After the War?????
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Articles of Confederation
Northwest Ordinance