1. The American Fight for Independence
The Revolutionary War

2. The American Colonists1.
The American Colonists
(aka Patriots) vs
The British Empire

4. THE BRITISH ARMY

5. THE COLONISTS

7. 2. THE COLONISTS WON THE WAR

8. There were many conflicts that occurred which led up to the Revolutionary War

9. BOSTON TEA PARTY

10. BOSTON MASSACRE

11. THE STAMP ACT

12. THE SUGAR ACT

13. 4. CRISPUS ATTUCKS

14. 5. Declaration of Independence
The American colonists leaders wrote The Declaration of Independence to send to the King of England.

17. 6.
The author of the Declaration of Independence was Thomas Jefferson, the eventual 3rd President of the United States.

19. CONTROVERSY
The original draft of the Declaration of Independence had a section that spoke against the enslavement of African Americans BUT was taken out because Americans from the South vehemently opposed and protested against it.

21. African Americans fought ON BOTH SIDES OF THE WAR. 8.
African Americans fought ON BOTH SIDES OF THE WAR.
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The British and the American Colonists both promised the African slaves freedom if they helped to win the war.
Some slave masters even sent their slaves to fight in their place.

23. FYI
MANY Southerners were very reluctant however to give African slaves the right to bare arms, even if it was to fight in the war.
Why?

24. PETER SALEM
Killed a British Major in the famous Battle at Bunkerhill

25. JAMES ARMISTEAD
Was a SPY for the American colonists. Was able to secretly get important information to defeat the British.

26. 9. WHY FIGHT ???
African Americans believed that by fighting they would eventually gain their freedom.

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28. CONTRADICTION
The contradiction behind Americans fighting for their independence is that while they were fighting to be free from the British; they were denying freedom to millions of African slaves.

30. BONUS
TWO AFRICAN AMERICANS THAT HELPED THE AMERICAN COLONISTS DEFEAT THE BRITISH AND HELPED AMERICA WIN ITS INDEPENDENCE WERE………..

31. PETER SALEM
Killed a British Major in the famous Battle at Bunker Hill.

34. JAMES ARMISTEAD
Was a SPY for the American colonists. Was able to secretly get important information to defeat the British.