1. 16 December 2014
Quiz on 6.4/6.5 tomorrow unless were absent from school on Monday/Tuesday (GATE, Band, Chorus, etc. doesn’t count).
All quizzes 6.1, 6.2/6.3, 6.4/6.5 must be taken before we go on break.
Today, I will be able to explain how the Patriots won at Yorktown and the key ideas of the Treaty of Paris ‘83.
Homework, prepare for quiz.

2. Weekly Schedule Monday: Discuss 6.4, complete 6.5 #1-5 for homework
Tuesday: Cover 6.5
Wednesday: Open note quiz 6.4/6.5
Thursday: Patriot
Friday: Patriot

3. Review the following items
Galvez
Clark
Peter Salem
Molly Pitcher
John Paul Jones
De Rochambeau
De Grasse
Greene
Morgan
Marion
Arnold
Cornwallis
Foreign Intervention
Siege
Guerrilla warfare

4. Recall
Describe the war in the South in mid-1780: Why were the British optimistic? Why were the Americans pessimistic? Why did Washington say, ‘I have almost ceased to hope?”

5. Fighting in the South
Gen. Clinton (British 1st in command), had captured Savannah and Charleston. Loyalists militia began destroying private property and brutalizing Patriots.
Patriots had effective leaders: Greene, Morgan, and Marion:
Greene: chose battle sites that put British at a disadvantage.
Morgan: made British think he was retreating at Cowpens
Marion: effectively used guerrilla tactics against the British.

6. Southern Turning Point
King’s Mountain, SC
“It’s like the South’s Saratoga”
Led to a string of Patriot victories
Forces were led by Greene and Morgan
Lifted the morale of Patriots
Jefferson called it, “the turn of the tide.”

7. You Benedict Arnold
At the time of becoming a traitor, he was considered one of America’s best generals.
September 1780, he turned over a key fort held by the Patriots (West Point) to the British.
Motive: He believed that he didn’t receive enough credit for his victories; also, they paid him off.

8. Gen. Cornwallis (British, 2nd in command)
Cornwallis conducted raids on Virginia, while Lafayette kept his forces at bay.
Cornwallis ignored his superior's orders to send part of his troops back to NY (he believes that Washington is going to attempt to regain NYC)
Cornwallis wanted supply his army at Yorktown, near the Atlantic Ocean
Washington saw an opportunity and moved his troops from NY to Yorktown, where he combined forces with Comte de Rochambeau (French) and they surrounded Cornwallis.
France provides a naval blockade ( led by Admiral de Grasse). The British are unable to receive supplies and begin to starve.

10. Yorktown
16,000 Patriots and French lay siege to Yorktown. After several weeks, with supplies running low, Cornwallis surrendered his troops.
19 October 1781, the British military surrenders to Patriots/French forces.
Yorktown clip

11. Peace
1782, (Franklin, J. Adams, J. Jay, and John Laurens) meet in Paris to discuss peace terms with Britain.
Terms: U.S. is independent, controls all territory from the Atlantic to the Mississippi, Spain would regain Florida.
Congress ratified the treaty 15 April 1783.

12. Reasons for victory
Britain is 3000 miles away (difficult to resupply and rotate soldiers)
Patriots were spread over a large area, over 1000 miles north to south and 800 miles east to west.
The Patriots knew the land better.
The Patriots were fighting for their freedom, families, land, etc.
Foreign help from France and Spain