The American War for Independence Mr. Bach Accelerated United States History Hudson High School
Colonial Demographics Patriots Loyalists African- American Slaves Native American Indians
On the Eve of Revolution? BritainAmericans Advantages ?? Disadvantages ??
First Continental Congress September – October 1774 Radicals – Patrick Henry (“Give Me Liberty...”) Conservatives – Joseph Galloway (Galloway Plan of Union) Compromise – John Adams (Declaration of Rights and Grievances) Accomplishments: –Articles of Association –Committees of Observation
Did the Patriotic Cause take the Appropriate Action towards Loyalists in the Colonies?
“The Shot Heard Round the World” April 19, 1775 Lexington and Concord
Battle of Bunker Hill June 17, 1775
Second Continental Congress Must now manage a war effort –Continental Army George Washington (Commanding General) –Raise funds Colonial Scrip –Foreign Ministry Need Allies
The Northern Campaign
Fort Ticonderoga Ethan Allen (Green Mountain Boys) Benedict Arnold
Washington in Command Organizes Continental Army from rag- tag militia on the heights around Boston
Henry Knox Brings the cannon from Fort Ticonderoga through the winter snow
The Northern Campaign
Washington Crossing the Delaware
Saratoga October 1777 The Turning Point
Where the Revolution Almost Died Valley Forge (Winter )
Outside Help Casimir Pulaski Thaddeus Kosciusko Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Franco-American Alliance (1778) –Marquis de Lafayette –Comte de Rochembeau John Adams and the Netherlands
The Southern Campaign (1778 – 1781)
Why the Southern Strategy? Split the colonies in two Advice of exiled Loyalists that there was greater pro-British sentiment in the South
Great Military Leaders
Betrayal at West Point
The Battle of Yorktown (1781) Count de Rochambeau Admiral De Grasse
The World Turned Upside Down
Treaty of Paris Recognizes American independence American boundaries North: Canada South: Florida West: Mississippi Fishing rights off Newfoundland
Why did the British lose the American War for Independence?