War Chart: American Revolution

Causes Repressive Acts by British (pp in your book) Stamp Act Mercantilism Tea Tax (and Party) “Taxation without representation” Intolerable Acts (especially quartering British Soldiers

More Causes and Spark Boston Massacre (1770) British Snobbery British left troops in colonies after French and Indian War

Spark April 1775 – Lexington and Concord

Strategy Colonists (Americans) Frontal assault (beginning of war) Hit and run (guerilla tactics) Motive Shooting accuracy French

Strategy cont. British Frontal assault Attrition (numbers and supplies) Key ports

Key/Turning Point Battles Fort Ticonderoga (1775) Bunker Hill (1775) Declaration of Independence (1776) Trenton (1776) *Saratoga (1777) Valley Forge ( ) Yorktown (1781)

Heroes (and Goats) George Thomas Paine Patrick Henry Sam Adams Washington John Paul JonesMarquis de Paul Revere Lafayette

British Heroats William Howe Charles Cornwallis John Burgoyne Thomas Gage

Costs ($ and Lives) Colonists About 4500 dead 6200 wounded Another 10,000-20,000 dead (disease/illness) $114,000,000 paid by colonies 35,000,000 paid by gov’t

Cost cont. British dead Approximately 20,000 wounded or dead by disease/illness Expensive (cost not known)

Treaty Treaty of Paris 1783 Terms British recognize U.S. as independent U.S. land north to Great Lakes, south to Florida, west to Mississippi Loyalists not persecuted Access to Newfoundland fishing grounds

Non-Treaty Results/Long- term Significance Economic independence for America (drawbacks for next 100 years) Great Britain goes downhill (loses empire and influence) Seeds of revolution planted (France and rest of world) Foundation for War of 1812