The American Revolution Phase I Declaring and Winning Independence

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The American Revolution Phase I Declaring and
Winning Independence
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Consequences of Lexington and ConcordThe Second
Continental Congress Takes Control

• Olive Branch Petition
• Creation of a Continental Army
• George Washington
• Skirmishes in New England, Canada

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British Reactions

• Parliament declares colonies in Revolt
• Liberty to the Slaves

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Declaring Independence

• Thomas Paines Common Sense
• the King is a Parasite
• England does not love Liberty
• a continent is greater than an island
• time to part

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Declaring Independence (2)

• Thomas Jefferson, John Adams,
• Benjamin Franklin
• Enlightened Ideas - We hold these
• truths to be self evident
• National Creed - All men are
• created equal

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Winning the War

• British Strengths
• American Strengths
• Washingtons Strategy

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Desperate Times/Crucial Victory

• British invade New York in
• attempt to divide the colonies/states
• Washington Retreats
• Continental Congress sends
• Benjamin Franklin to France
• Continental Troops win
• Battle of Saratoga

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Now its a Global War

• France and later Spain join the Americans
• Victory is only a matter of time?
• (Yes/No?)

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Social Tensions Indians

• Indians in West Remain Loyal
• Many Whites began moving West
• Intense Combat

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Social Tensions Loyalists and African Americans

• Tories
• British invasion of South in 1780 causes
• a civil war among communities
• Status of Slaves and African Americans?

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Geographic Perspective
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Triumph

• Washingtons Army defeats large British Force at
  Yorktown, 1781
• Treaty of Paris, 1783

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The New Nation
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The War in a Global Context

• Continuation of French/Anglo Rivalry
• A Nation Based on New European Ideas
• First Modern Republic
• First Modern War of Liberation

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Global War
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Rippling through the Atlantic Worldand beyond,
and across time