The American Revolution

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The American Revolution
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A Longshot Victory

• The armies
• The British
• Lord George Germain
• Hessians
• Navy
• The Americans
• George Washington
• The Continentals
• The Militia
• The Hannah

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Loyalists

• General William Howe
• Slaves
• Split in the Iroquian confederation
• Tories

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State Constitutions

• State constitutional conventions
• The Question of sovereignty
• Terms of office
• Elected officials
• Governors
• Separation of church and state
• Extending voting rights
• Exclusion to the rules

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State Constitutions (Cont)

• States Bill of Rights

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Articles of Confederation

• A league of friendship
• No Executive branch
• Legislative branch
• Terms of office
• Congressional powers
• Confederation treasury
• Continentals
• Tariffs and taxes
• State powers

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Colonial advantages

• A defensive war
• Pro-American sentiment
• Edmund Burke
• John Wilkes
• Foreign assistance
• Spain
• France
• Benjamin Franklin
• Thomas Jefferson
• John Adams

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Revolutionary Battles

• British retreat from Boston
• The Battle of Long Island
• Brooklyn Heights
• Fort Washington
• General Nathanael Greene

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Christmas 1776

• Crossing the Delaware
• Battle of Trenton
• Princeton
• Winter quarters-Morristown
• General Cornwallis

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General Cornwallis

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Crossing the Delaware

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Watershed Campaign of 1777

• General Clinton
• Brandywine Creek
• Occupation of PA
• Germantown
• Winter quarters-Valley Forge
• Camp disease
• Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
• Loss of British Iroquois support

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Valley Forge

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Baron von Steuben
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Northern Strategy 1776-1777

• Isolation of New England
• General Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne
• Howe deviates from the strategy

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The War in 1777

• Battle of Saratoga (Oct. 17th 1777)
• Burgoyne vs Horatio Gates
• Lord Norths proposal
• General Clinton replaces Howe

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Foreign Assistance

• France
• Canada
• Joining the war
• The spoils
• The French navy
• The Netherlands
• Mercenaries for Liberty

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The Revolution in 1778-1783

• British strategy
• Naval blockade
• Concentrating on the South
• StalemateThe Swamp Fox
• Weakened morale 1780-1781
• The turncoat
• A bankrupt Congress

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Campaign of 1781

• Lord Cornwallis
• Attack on Virginia
• Battle of Cowpens (Jan. 17th, 1781)
• General Clinton/Cornwallis blunders
• French assistance
• Yorktown
• Cornwallis surrenders
• Lord Norths resignation
• Treaty of Paris 1783

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What did the Revolution mean to other groups?

• Tories, women, slaves and Indians
• Women, slaves and Indians
• Abigail Adams
• Thomas Jeremiah
• Natives