1. Winning Independence

2. Hardships of the War British blockades Profiteering Inflation
Weather(Remember Valley Forge)

3. Victory in the West
Colonel George Rogers Clark led the militia over the British.
Won fort at Vincennes, controlled the Ohio River Valley

4. Situation in the South
Lord Cornwalis starts in Savannah and moves north into Virginia.
Naval blockades readily supply his forces as it gains strength moving north.

5. Battle of Yorktown
Cornwalis was surrounded on this peninsula and was being bombarded.
Escape routes were blocked and he was forced to surrender.
October 18, 1781 Cornwalis surrendered to Washington.

6. Treaty of Paris--1783
France, Spain, United States, and England all involved in negotiations

7. Provisions 1. Great Britain recognized the United States of America.
2. Border with British Canada was set along the Great lakes.
3. Mississippi River set as boundary with Spanish west.
4. Florida was returned to Spain.
5. British troops removed from U.S.
6. Rights and properties of all Loyalists were restored.