War of independence

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War of independence

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  By Albert Redžepi , Mihailo Jašarevic , Darko
  Boldorac,
• Sara Milkovic and Strahinja Stojanovic

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Reasons for War

• The American Revolution (1775-1783) is also known
  as the American Revolutionary War and the U.S.
  War of Independence. The conflict arose from
  growing tensions between residents of Great
  Britains 13 North American colonies and the
  colonial government, which represented the
  British crown. 
• While no one event can be pointed to as the
  actual cause of the revolution, the war began as
  a disagreement over the way in which Great
  Britain treated the colonies versus the way the
  colonies felt they should be treated. Americans
  felt they deserved all the rights of Englishmen.
  The British, on the other hand, felt that the
  colonies were created to be used in the way that
  best suited the crown and parliament. 

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The Boston Tea Party

• In 1773, Parliament passed the Tea Act,
  because they wanted to help British East India
  Company and to give it trade monopoly on the tea
  exported to the American colonies. In many
  American cities, tea agents resigned or canceled
  orders. Governor of Massachusetts decided to
  respect this decision- payments should be made
  for the goods. On the night of December 16, 1773,
  while the ships were in the harbor, 60 men
  boarded the ships, disguised as Native Americans,
  and dumped the entire shipment of tea into the
  harbor. That event is now famously known as
  the Boston Tea Party.

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Declaration of Independence

• In 1776, leaders of 13 British colonies made the
  Declaration of Independence.
• They met in Philadelphia
• Thomas Jefferson, later to become a USA
  president, wrote the first draft of the
  Declaration.
• Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, Benjamin
  Franklin and John Adams were part of the
  committee to help Jefferson.
• On July 4, 1776 the Congress officially adopted
  the final version of the Declaration of
  Independence. This day is still celebrated in the
  United States as Independence Day. 

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Copy of the first printing of the Declaration of
Independence done by Philadelphia printer John
Dunlap in the evening of July 4, 1776. This
documents is known as "Dunlap Broadsides" of the
Declaration of Independence.
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Battles

• Lexington and Concord, April 1775
• Bunker Hill, June 1775
• Quebec, December 1775
• Charleston, June 1776
• Trenton, December 1776
• Saratoga, October 1777
• Rhode Island, August 1778
• Kings Mountain, October 1780
• Cowpens, January 1781
• Yorktown, October 1781

Quebec 1775
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The Battle of Saratoga

• The Battles of Saratoga were a series of battles
  that culminated in the Battle of Saratoga and the
  surrender of British General John Burgoyne. This
  decisive victory by the Americans was a turning
  point of the Revolutionary War. 

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The Yorktown Battle

• The Battle of Yorktown was the last great battle
  of the American Revolutionary War. It is where
  the British Army surrendered and the British
  government began to consider a peace treaty.
• Around 8,000 British troops surrendered in
  Yorktown. Although this wasn't all of the army,
  it was a big enough force to cause the British to
  start thinking they were going to lose the war.
  Losing this battle made them start to think about
  peace and that it wasn't worth the cost of the
  war to keep the colonies. This opened the door
  for the Treaty of Paris. 

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Tomas Jefferson

• Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), author of the
  Declaration of Independence and the third U.S.
  president, was a leading figure in Americas
  early development. He was born on April 13, 1743,
  in Virginia. He was a draftsman of the U.S.
  Declaration of Independence the nation's first
  secretary of state (1789-94) second vice
  president (1797-1801) and, as the third
  president (1801-09), the statesman responsible
  for the Louisiana Purchase.

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George Washington

• George Washington (1732-99) was commander in
  chief of the Continental Army during the American
  Revolutionary War (1775-83) and served two terms
  as the first U.S. president, from 1789 to 1797.
  During the American Revolution, he led the
  colonial forces to victory over the British and
  became a national hero. In 1789, Washington
  became Americas first president. 

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Benjamin Franklin

• Benjamin Franklin is best known as one of the
  Founding Fathers who drafted the Declaration of
  Independence and the Constitution of the United
  States. In 1776, Franklin helped Thomas Jefferson
  write the Declaration of Independence. Two years
  later, he went to France and convinced the French
  to help America in the war against England.
  Today, Ben Franklin is honored on the 100 dollar
  bill.
• Franklin was also an inventor. Many of his
  creations are still in use today. 

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The Treaty of Paris

• The Treaty of Paris of 1783, negotiated between
  the United States and Great Britain, ended the
  revolutionary war and recognized American
  independence. After the British Army surrendered
  at the Battle of Yorktown it still took a long
  time for an agreement between Britain and the
  United States to be signed. It was around a year
  and a half later that King George finally
  ratified the treaty!  The most important thing
  for the Americans was that Britain recognize the
  Thirteen Colonies to be free and independent
  states and that Britain no longer had any claim
  on the land or government.
• The second major point was that the boundaries of
  the United States allowed for western expansion.

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Soldier gear
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