The Revolutionary War

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The Revolutionary War

• Chapter 9

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Americans and the Revolution

• Chapter 9 Lesson 1

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Hardships

• Personal Hardships
• Choosing sides was difficult
• Soldiers robbed and destroyed homes and towns
• Economic Hardships
• Shortage of imported goods
• High prices for goods

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Groups of People Affected by the War

• Women and the war
• Took care of homes businesses
• Followed husbands in battles
• Wrote letters and stories supporting the Patriot
  cause
• Disguised themselves as men and fought

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Groups of People Affected by the War

• African Americans, Free Enslaved
• Many fought for both sides
• Those fighting were hoping to win their freedom

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Groups of People Affected by the War

• People in the West
• Native Americans were divided and fought for both
  sides
• Western settlers didnt support the war but
  wanted to drive the British off their lands

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Fighting for Independence

• Chapter 9 Lesson 2

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Comparing Armies

• Continental Army
• No uniforms
• Few weapons
• Little military training
• Few supplies
• 15,000 soldiers
• Little money

• British Army
• Experienced soldiers
• 50,000 soldiers
• Well supplied
• Well funded
• Used hired soldiers

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Early Battles in the North

• Long Island
• British victory, Americans suffered great losses
• Trenton
• The success of the surprise attack gave the
  American soldiers hope for the future

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Important Victory

• Saratoga
• Turning point battle
• This American victory showed that Americans may
  have a chance to win the war

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Winter at Valley Forge

• What it was like
• Soldiers were ragged
• Lacked warm clothes
• Many had no shoes
• Food running low
• Congress had little money to send supplies

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Winter at Valley Forge

• Help from overseas
• Marquis de Lafayette the soldiers friend
• Came from France to help Americans fight
• Spent own money to feed and clothe soldiers
• Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
• Came from Germany to help American's fight
• Trained Americans better ways to march and fight

Marquis de Lafayette
Baron von Steuben
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Contributions from Other Nations

• French sent supplies and soldiers
• Spain sent money, food, and soldiers
• Netherlands loaned Congress money
• Russians tried to keep British from blocking
  trade with the Americans

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Winning Independence

• Chapter 9 Lesson 3

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Revolutionary Heroes

• Nathan Hale
• American spy
• John Paul Jones
• Naval General
• Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley
• Loaded cannons and carried water to soldiers on
  battlefield
• Tadeusz Kosciuszko
• Designed plans for a fort at West Point

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The War Moves South

• Savannah, Georgia
• British victory
• Charlestown, South Carolina
• British victory
• Cowpens, South Carolina
• Major American victory
• Guilford Courthouse, North Carolnia
• British won but were weakened

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The War Ends

• Victory at Yorktown
• October 19, 1781
• General Cornwallis surrendered after being
  surrounded for weeks by French and American
  forces
• The Treaty of Paris
• Signed on September 3, 1783
• Named USA as a new nation
• Set new borders

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Effects of the War

• Lesson 9 Chapter 4

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New Ideas

• States wrote their own constitutions
• Declaration said all people deserve life,
  liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
• People believed slavery should be ended

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Western Settlements

• United States had won more land
• Former soldiers and settlers moved west
• Native American tribes lived in the West
• Fast growing area south of the Ohio River

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Northwest Territory

• Located north of the Ohio River
• 1785 Ordinance
• divided the territory into townships
• Northwest Ordinance of 1787
• Set up plan for governing the territory
• Explained how lands could become states
• Stated slavery would not be allowed in this
  territory

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Battles for Land

• Fighting for land occurred between Native
  Americans and settlers who moved west
• What happened
• Native Americans lost their lands or were forced
  to sell their lands
• Americans settled on these lands and moved
  farther and farther west changing the lives of
  Native Americans forever