Winning the War

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Winning the War

• Section 4.4

Lesson Objective To understand the Southern
Campaign and the end of the Revolutionary War
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MATCHING

• Burgoyne
• 2. Cornwallis
• 3. Howe
• 4. John Jay
• 5. Lafayette

1. Defeated at Yorktown
2. Spent the Winter of 77-78 in Philly
3. Young French officer
4. Negotiated Treaty of Paris
5. Defeated at Saratoga
6. Led American forces in Canada campaign

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European Allies Shift the Balance

• Baron Friedrich von Steuben

• Marquis de Lafayette

• Made regular soldiers out of country bumpkins
  at Valley Forge

• Believed in the colonists cause
• Became a very close friend of G.W.
• Suffered through Valley Forge
• Called for France to help out

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British Move South

• Didnt fare too well in the Middle and Northern
  colonies ????
• Hoped they could seize ports and launch attacks
  on the French in the West Indies.
• What are other reasons?

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Early Success in the South

• Spring 1779 British controlled Georgia
• Clinton replaces Howe in N.Y.
• Charles Cornwallis led the expedition in the
  South
• May 1780 Battle of Charles Town
• British captured 5,500 colonial soldiers
• August 1780 - British win another big victory at
  the Battle of Camden

???

• African Americans begin to enter the war
• Who are they usually fighting for and why?

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Colonists Fight Back

• Nathanael Greene and Daniel Morgan take over
  colonial forces
• Jan. 1781 Battle of Cowpens
• Cornwalis scored a victory at the Guildford Court
  House, but lost ¼ of his men in the process
• What were some of the issues the British were
  having?
• Where did Cornwallis decide to go next? Why was
  it such a mistake?

Swamp Fox Francis Marion
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Battle of Yorktown, Oct. 17, 1781
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Peace at Paris!

• Treaty of Paris of 1783
• Recognized the independence of the United States
• Recognized Florida, Mississippi and Old North
  West (Ohio, etc.) as part of U.S.
• No provisions on when the British will leave
  their forts in the West
• colonists promised to pay back debts to
  England and give land back to Loyolists
• Negotiated by Ben Franklin, John Adams, and John
  Jay
• Americans make a separate peace with England,
  frustrating French and Spanish imperial ambitions

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• Identify whether the new spirit of
  egalitarianism changed various social groups in
  the new United States, and if so, how. (use p.
  116)
• AFRICAN AMERICANS
• WOMEN
• NATIVE AMERICANS

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TERMS

• Friedrich von Steuben
• Marquis de Lafayette
• Charles Cornwallis
• Yorktown
• Egalitarianism