1. The American War for Independence Mr. Bach Accelerated United States History Hudson High School

2. Colonial Demographics Patriots Loyalists African- American Slaves Native American Indians

3. On the Eve of Revolution? BritainAmericans Advantages ?? Disadvantages ??

4. First Continental Congress September – October 1774 Radicals – Patrick Henry (“Give Me Liberty...”) Conservatives – Joseph Galloway (Galloway Plan of Union) Compromise – John Adams (Declaration of Rights and Grievances) Accomplishments: –Articles of Association –Committees of Observation

5. Did the Patriotic Cause take the Appropriate Action towards Loyalists in the Colonies?

6. “The Shot Heard Round the World” April 19, 1775 Lexington and Concord

7. Battle of Bunker Hill June 17, 1775

8. Second Continental Congress Must now manage a war effort –Continental Army George Washington (Commanding General) –Raise funds Colonial Scrip –Foreign Ministry Need Allies

9. The Northern Campaign 1775 - 1776

10. Fort Ticonderoga Ethan Allen (Green Mountain Boys) Benedict Arnold

11. Washington in Command Organizes Continental Army from rag- tag militia on the heights around Boston

12. Henry Knox Brings the cannon from Fort Ticonderoga through the winter snow

13. The Northern Campaign 1777 - 1778

14. Washington Crossing the Delaware

15. Saratoga October 1777 The Turning Point

16. Where the Revolution Almost Died Valley Forge (Winter 1777 - 78)

17. Outside Help Casimir Pulaski Thaddeus Kosciusko Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Franco-American Alliance (1778) –Marquis de Lafayette –Comte de Rochembeau John Adams and the Netherlands

18. The Southern Campaign (1778 – 1781)

19. Why the Southern Strategy? Split the colonies in two Advice of exiled Loyalists that there was greater pro-British sentiment in the South

20. Great Military Leaders

21. Betrayal at West Point

22. The Battle of Yorktown (1781) Count de Rochambeau Admiral De Grasse

23. The World Turned Upside Down

24. Treaty of Paris Recognizes American independence American boundaries North: Canada South: Florida West: Mississippi Fishing rights off Newfoundland

25. Why did the British lose the American War for Independence?