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Title: The American Revolution


1
The American Revolution
2
A Longshot Victory
  • The armies
  • The British
  • Lord George Germain
  • Hessians
  • Navy
  • The Americans
  • George Washington
  • The Continentals
  • The Militia
  • The Hannah

3
Loyalists
  • General William Howe
  • Slaves
  • Split in the Iroquian confederation
  • Tories

4
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

5
State Constitutions (Cont)
  • States Bill of Rights

6
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

7
Colonial advantages
  • A defensive war
  • Pro-American sentiment
  • Edmund Burke
  • John Wilkes
  • Foreign assistance
  • Spain
  • France
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • John Adams

8
Revolutionary Battles
  • British retreat from Boston
  • The Battle of Long Island
  • Brooklyn Heights
  • Fort Washington
  • General Nathanael Greene

9
Christmas 1776
  • Crossing the Delaware
  • Battle of Trenton
  • Princeton
  • Winter quarters-Morristown
  • General Cornwallis

10
General Cornwallis

11
Crossing the Delaware

12
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

13
Valley Forge

14
Baron von Steuben
15
Northern Strategy 1776-1777
  • Isolation of New England
  • General Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne
  • Howe deviates from the strategy

16
The War in 1777
  • Battle of Saratoga (Oct. 17th 1777)
  • Burgoyne vs Horatio Gates
  • Lord Norths proposal
  • General Clinton replaces Howe

17
Foreign Assistance
  • France
  • Canada
  • Joining the war
  • The spoils
  • The French navy
  • The Netherlands
  • Mercenaries for Liberty

18
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

19
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

20
What did the Revolution mean to other groups?
  • Tories, women, slaves and Indians
  • Women, slaves and Indians
  • Abigail Adams
  • Thomas Jeremiah
  • Natives
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