The American Revolution

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• The American Revolution

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• MAIN THEMES
• How the thirteen colonies were able to win
  American independence from the most powerful
  empire of the eighteenth century.
• How the American Revolution was not simply a war
  for independence, but also a struggle to preserve
  and expand republican government on the state and
  national level.
• The political and economic problems of the 1780s
  and how they were addressed.

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MAJOR THEMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY
WAR
SLAVERY
RELIGION
PERIODS COLONIAL REVOLUTIONARY ANTEBELLUM
IMPERIALISM
NATION BUILDING
REVOLUTION
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
REFORM
NATIVISM / RACISM
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COMBATANTS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
ANGLOAMERICAN Population 3.5 million
250,000 Under Arms (5.7) AFRAMERICAN Pro
British - 80,000 (took Refuge) Pro American -
5000 AMERINDIAN 50,000 Under Arms Pro
British Iroquios Cherokee Pro American -
Other
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WAR IN THE NORTH 1775 - 1777
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BURGOYNES INVASION 
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• The War for Independence  
• The Second Phase The Mid-Atlantic Region  

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WAR IN THE SOUTH 1777 - 1781
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Bernardo de Galvez attack on Florida, 1781
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The Battle of Yorktown
Cornwallis 7500
Washington 2500

Rochambeau 4000
De Grasse 3000
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• The States United
• Defining American War Aims 
• The Declaration of Independence  
• Mobilizing for War  

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THOMAS PAINE 1737-1809
1776 Common Sense 1777 American Crises 1792
Rights of Man Background Deist Republic
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• Securing Aid from Abroad 
• Two Myths
• Washington
• Franklin

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• War and Society  
• Loyalists and Minorities  

Tarring and Feathering (Library of Congress)
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• War and Society
• The War Economy
• Blockades
• Privateers
• Types of Participation
• Militia
• Regulars
• Losers
• Amerindians
• British
• Taxpayers

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• The Creation of State Governments  
• The Assumptions of Republicanism  
• The First State Constitutions
• Limited Executive Powers
• Increased Suffrage
• Revising State Governments
• Constitutional Conventions
•  Powerful Governors 
• Toleration and Slavery

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• The Search for a National Government  
• The Confederation
• No standing Army
• No regulation of Trade
• No Taxation  

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• The Search for a National Government
•  The Confederation
• No standing Army
• No regulation of Trade
• No Taxation  
• The Confederation and the Northwest  
• Land Ordinance of 1785
• Debts, Taxes, and Daniel Shays 
• National Debt
• Continental Impost 
• Diplomatic Failures
• No British evacuation  

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• Debating the Past
• THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION  

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TIMELINE THE REVOLTING 19TH CENTURY   1775-1783
American Revolution  1786-1787 Shays
rebellion  1789 -Outbreak of French
Revolution  1794 Whiskey Rebellion  1792-1812
Amerindian Nativist Revolts  1794 1804 - The
Haitian Revolution  1808 Latin American Wars
of Independence begin with the French conquest
of Spain
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