1. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 Written by Thomas Jefferson, it outlines the reasons why the U.S. is separating from Great Britain

2. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

3. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 The English enlightenment philosopher from whom Thomas Jefferson drew the ideas of “all men are created equal” and “men are entitled to life, liberty, and property”

4. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 JOHN LOCKE

5. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 He is considered to be the American enlightenment thinker and was sent to Paris as part of the negotiation team demanding Britain’s recognition of American independence

6. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

7. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 The turning point of the Revolution (Oct. 1777) when the French began to openly aid the American rebels against the British

8. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 BATTLE OF SARATOGA

9. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 The hardest winter of Gen. Washington’s command was spent here (1777-78) Baron von Steuben (a Prussian) arrived to assist with the training of the troops into a professional military unit

10. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 VALLEY FORGE, VA

11. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 On Christmas night, 1776, Washington crossed this River into Trenton, NJ, surprising the Hessian soldiers who were surprised by the attack. Americans won a much-needed victory here at Trenton and a week later at Princeton, NJ to boost their morale

12. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 DELAWARE RIVER

13. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 Leader of the Continental Army for the U.S. Men willing to follow him because of his leadership skills and strong character (not because he was a military tactitian)

14. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 GEORGE WASHINGTON

15. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 He arrived from France and assisted George Washington at Valley Forge. He lobbied for French reinforcements in France in 1779 He was also at Yorktown when Cornwallis was defeated

16. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

17. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 He was the British general who surrendered at Yorktown in October 1781 giving the victory to the Americans

18. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 GENERAL CORNWALLIS

19. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 This battle ended the American Revolution and resulted in a British surrender when Cornwallis’s men were bottled up on a peninsula in Virginia from troops by land and the French by sea

20. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 BATTLE OF YORKTOWN

21. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 The terms of this treaty in 1783 set the boundaries of the new nation from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River and from Canada to Florida

22. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 TREATY OF PARIS OF 1783