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American Victory
Advantage

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Costs of the War
Issues After the War

3. Lesson 7.4: The Legacy of the War and Issues After the War

4. Essential Question
What lessons were learned from the war and what challenges did the new nation face?

5. Focus Questions
What advantages enabled the Americans to win the Revolutionary War ?
What advantages did the British have entering the war against the American colonies?
What were all of the conditions of the Treaty of Paris of 1783?
What were all the costs of the war ?

6. Focus Questions
How did Americans’ goals for government change after declaring independence?
6. What are the characteristics of republicanism?
7. How did American independence begin to change life for African Americans?

7. Vocabulary
Treaty of Paris of 1783 – Document signed which ended the Revolutionary War, confirming the independence of America
republicanism – belief that government should be based on the consent of the people
Elizabeth Freeman – a slave who sued for freedom in a Massachusetts’ court and won
Richard Allen – a preacher who helped start the Free African Society and African Methodist church

8. British Advantages
Going into the Revolutionary War, the British had the best military in the world.
The British had the largest and best navy in the world.
The British soldiers were well trained and well equipped with weapons .

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How the Americans Won
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Four advantages the Americans had…
Better leadership
Foreign aid
Knowledge of the land
Better motivation

10. How the Americans Won Better leadership:
After early defeats, Washington developed the strategy of dragging out the war to wear down the British and avoiding crushing defeats.

11. How the Americans Won Foreign Aid:
America received loans and military aid primarily from Britain’s two biggest enemies, France and Spain. This aid was
essential in
America’s ability
to defeat the
British.

12. How the Americans Won Knowledge of the land:
The Americans knew their surroundings where the fighting took place and used that knowledge to their
advantage. The British could control
the coastal cities but could not extend their control to the interior.

13. How the Americans Won Better motivation:
The American had more reasons to fight. Not only were they fighting to protect their lives and their property, they were fighting for their freedom and liberty.

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Better
Leadership
Washington
developed
new
strategies
Foreign aid
Loans/military
aid from
France and
Spain
Knowledge of
The land
The Americans
knew their
surroundings
motivation
Americans
fought for
to protect
their lives &
property
American Victory
Advantage

15. The End of the War
On October 19, 1781, Lord Cornwallis surrendered to Washington at Yorktown, effectively ending the Revolutionary War.

16. The End of the War
In November 1783, the last British ships and troops left New York City, and American troops marched in.

17. The End of the War
Weeping, Washington said good-bye to his officers at Fraunces Tavern in New York City.

18. Did you know?
Fraunces Tavern still stands in NYC and is still doing business.
One of the first reviews for Fraunces:
“The most splendid dinner I ever saw, a profusion of rich dishes.”
- John Adams at Fraunces Tavern, 1774

19. The Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris of 1783, was the official document drawn up between the American colonies and Great Britain ending the Revolutionary War. It consisted of six main conditions.

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Britain would recognize the United States as a free and independent nation.
The boundaries were to be the Mississippi River to the west, Canada to the north, and Spanish Florida to the south.

21. The Treaty of Paris
2. Britain would have to surrender its forts between the Ohio River and the Great Lakes.

22. The Treaty of Paris
3. The United States would receive the right to fish in the Atlantic Ocean off Canada’s coast.

23. The Treaty of Paris
4. Each side would repay its debt to the other.

24. The Treaty of Paris
5. The British would return any slaves they had captured.

25. The Treaty of Paris
6. Congress would tell the states to return property they had seized from Loyalists.

26. Terms of the Treaty of Paris
Costs of the War
Issues After the War
Britain would recognize the United States as a free and independent nation.
Britain would surrender its forts between the Ohio River and the Great Lakes
The United States would receive right to fish in the Atlantic Ocean off Canada’s coast.
Each side would repay its debt to the other.
The British would return any slaves they had captured
States to return property they had seized from Loyalists

27. The Treaty of Paris of 1783 Neither side lived up to the treaty.
Americans did not repay prewar debts to British merchants or return Loyalist property.
The British did not return slaves, and did not give up forts in the Great Lakes area

28. The Cost of the War
No one knows exactly how many lives were lost during the eight year war. The British had an estimated 10,000 deaths. The American
estimates are
25,000 killed.
1400 missing
and 8200
wounded.

29. The Cost of the War
Many soldiers who survived the war left the army with no money.
Most received little or no pay for their service.
Some were given government land grants in the west. Many sold the grants to purchase food and basic necessities.

30. The Cost of the War
Both the Congress and the individual states had borrowed money to finance the conflict.
Some of the money had been borrowed from foreign countries, and the rest from private citizens.
The war left the nation with a debt of about $27 million.

31. The Cost of the War
Thousands of Loyalists lost their land and personal property.
Between 60,000 and 100,000 Loyalists left the United States.

32. The Cost of the War
Most Loyalists went to Canada where they created new towns and new provinces.
They also brought English traditions to areas that had
originally been
settled by
French
colonists.

33. Terms of the Treaty of Paris
Costs of the War
Issues After the War
Many soldiers returned home without pay and in debt.
Congress had a debt of $27 million in war expenses to repay
Both the British and American sides had thousands of casualties (deaths)
Thousands of Loyalists lost their land and personal property

34. What We Already Know
After defeating the mighty British military and negotiating the Treaty of Paris in 1783, American independence became a reality.

35. What We Already Know
The American Revolution was not just a war, but a revolution in ideas about how government should work for the people.

36. What We Already Know
The colonies wanted independence from Britain so they could have a government that was more just.

37. What We Already Know
The self–evident truths and unalienable rights expressed by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence became the goals of the American Revolution.

38. Republicanism
Before the war, Americans had demanded their rights as English citizens. But after declaring their independence, they replaced that goal with the idea of republicanism.

39. Republicanism
For this system to work, individuals would have to place the good of the country above their own interests.

40. Republicanism
Republicanism is the idea that instead of a king, the people would rule. The
government would receive its authority
from the citizens, who exercise their power by voting for political representatives.

41. Religious Freedom
As part of their liberty, Americans called for more religious freedom.
Before the war, some laws discriminated against certain religions.
Some states had not allowed Jews or Catholics to hold public office.

42. Religious Freedom
After the war, states began to abolish laws that would discriminate against certain religions. States also ended the practice of using tax money to support churches.

43. Slavery
Many people began to see a conflict between slavery and the ideal of liberty. The newly formed state of Vermont, which broke
away from New York, abolished slavery outright in its constitution,
on July 8, 1777.

44. Slavery
Individual African Americans also tried to end slavery. Elizabeth Freeman sued for her freedom in a Massachusetts court and won. Her victory in 1781 and other similar cases ended slavery in that state.

45. Slavery
With freedom, African Americans began to form their own institutions. Preacher Richard Allen helped start the Free African Society which encouraged
African Americans to help each other. Allen also founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first African-American church in the United States.

46. World Wide Influence
The American Revolution and our new form of government influenced people around the world.
The Declaration of Independence was widely circulated in France, and helped inspire the French Revolution in 1789.

47. World Wide Influence
Revolutionaries in Latin America began to rise up against colonial powers in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
By 1830, most of the former European colonies in Central and South America had won independence.

48. Terms of the Treaty of Paris
Costs of the War
Issues After the War
Republicanism replaced demands for rights as Englishmen
Americans called for more
Religious freedom
Many disagreed with slavery
Some states abolished slavery and some African Americans
sued for their freedom