1. Grab a Contrast Sheet from front table Contrast the Patriots v British in regards to their Military Strengths and Weaknesses Use the Textbook Ch 6

2. 1774-1777

3.  England v. Colonies ◦ Advantages ◦ Disadvantages

4.  England ◦ Strongest Navy in World ◦ Large Well Trained Army ◦ 8 million in population ◦ Lots and lots of wealth

5.  Continentals ◦ No Navy ◦ Lack of Experience ◦ Lack of Ammo and Weapons  Advantages? ◦ Home Turf ◦ George Washington ◦ Founding Fathers

6.  Recruitment  Enlistment ◦ White Men ◦ Women ◦ African Americans

7.  Continental Army Recruitment Poster Activity  Goal: To Create a Poster that would have been used to recruit soldiers for the Continental Army. ◦ Directions: To create an effective Recruitment Poster you must do the following: ◦ Be creative ◦ Use illustrations ◦ Use persuasive language to encourage prospective soldiers to join up ◦ Use propaganda against the British ◦ Use Color ◦ Include information on battles and campaigns that we have covered. ◦ Include information about who can join up ◦ Include information about what soldiers could expect as part of the Continental Army ◦ Use information from the primary sources that we have read

8.  Prepare for Notes and Discussions

10.  Lexington and Concord  Suffolk Resolves  Militia continue to gather around Boston  GW to Boston Area  While GW was en route Bunker Hill Battle

11.  June 16, 1775

13.  Benedict Arnold  Ethan Allen ◦ Green Mountain Boys

17.  Places cannon and dummy cannon around Boston  Tricks Howe out of Boston  Moves to engage in NY

18.  Divide and Conquer  Separate colonial regions from each other and conquer each separately

20.  Campaigns in the North, Middle and Southern Colonies  Campaign – A series of battles with an end goal in mind

23.  Attempts to capture Quebec and Montreal in 1775  British defeat him and invade New England

24.  30,000 Troops land in NY  The British Invade

26.  Moral very low after loss  Had to get morale up  Crosses the Delaware  Attacks Hessians at Trenton  Why Attack Hessians?

31. Prepare for Notes and Discussion HW Check later this period

32. Meanwhile… Up North!

35.  1777 – Gen Horatio Gates defeats Gen Burgoyne  Saves separation from New England Colonies.  Burgoyne’s Army Surrenders

40.  Saves the Colonies  French Alliance  New Heroes ◦ Benedict Arnold (The Boot) ◦ Captain Daniel Morgan ◦ General Horatio Gates

43.  Philadelphia Campaign is raging  British land a 270 ship strong fleet and invade towards Philadelphia

44.  Saratoga was a major victory  However in the Middle Colonies ◦ Philadelphia Lost to British ◦ Continental Congress in hiding ◦ Troops in Valley Forge

46. Prepare for Notes and Discussion Hand in NE Battles Map

49.  265 Ship Armada lands in MD from NY, led by General William Howe  17000 Troops to march on Philadelphia  In between Philadelphia and Howe was GW

51.  Howe to meet GW at Battle of Brandywine  1200 American casualties  1900 British casualties

52.  September 1777 – Battle of the Clouds  Paoli Massacre  Battle of Germantown  All losses for Colonials

53.  Last effort to keep the British out of Philadelphia  The Americans suffered 152 losses, 521 wounded, and over 400 captured. The British casualties numbered 537 plus 14 captured  Despite loss, American morale boosted ◦ “Bad luck, not bad tactics”

55.  Continental Army Spent 6 weeks outside city  In December British launch a surprise attack but ineffectual engagement  Washington moves west to Valley Forge

56.  Washington's troops weary, low morale  Cold, Snowy Winter  Transformation occurs

58.  Hardships  Lafayette  Freidrich Von Stueben

59. Marquis de Lafayette and Baron Von Stueben

61.  France ◦ Franklin in Paris  Spain  John Adams in England as Emissary  French Alliance 1778

63. The Philadelphia Campaign  Login To Computer  Go to my Website  Class Documents  Open Philadelphia Campaign 2014  Read  Poster Due Monday 11/3

65. Prepare for notes and discussion.

66. 1778-1781

68.  The British blockaded east coast  American privateers captured more British boats at sea than the American Navy  2,000 Privateers

69.  Began raiding British ports in 1777  Met a large fleet of British merchant ships escorted by a British warship  Fought for three hours  “I have not yet begun to fight.”

70.  What do we mean when talking about “the west” during the 1700s? Why is it so important to control?

71. George Rogers Clark July 1778 Americans Captured British town and renamed it Vincennes, IN Strengthened the American position in the West; Continentals control of the Mississippi

73.  Hero of Fort Ticonderoga and Battle of Saratoga  Planned to surrender fort at West Point NY, for 20000 sterling pounds  Became a Brigadier General in English army

74.  France Sends troops and a Fleet to support  Spain sends arms and ammunition

75.  Troops arrive  Gen. Jean Baptiste de Rochambeau

76. Phase 3

77.  Britain's Plan ◦ Invade South ◦ Loyalist support?  Francis Marion ◦ Guerrilla Warfare

78. "My name is Francis Marion. I fought the British Redcoats in 1776 - hiding in the Carolina swamps by day, surprising them with swift strikes at night. They called me a tricky swamp fox, so a Swamp Fox I became." Francis Marion

79.  Following NY and Philly, Clinton’s focus moves south. WHY???  British win initial victories under General Cornwallis Read the primary sources with a partner and find out who was Francis Marion?

80.  GW waits for French reinforcement in Middle Colonies  Horatio Gates (replaced by Nate Green) & Americans slowly take upper- hand in south  Cornwallis retreats north to Yorktown, VA  Washington & French head for Yorktown

81.  Washington to NY?  Cornwallis in Yorktown, Trapped by Lafayette  Admiral de Grasse in the Chesapeake

83.  Split up  Rochambeau, Wayne and Washington to Yorktown

87.  14000 French and American troops  7500 British and Hessian  Aug- Oct 1781  Oct 19 Surrender

89. General Cornwallis surrenders after the Siege of Yorktown (October, 1781)

93. Make sure your name and period # are on the back of your project

95. Prepare for Notes and Discussion Hand in your Rev War in South Map.

97.  British still have armies in NYC and S. Carolina  There are a few small battles after Yorktown, but British have lost will to conquer

98.  Treaty of Paris – 1783  John Jay, Ben Franklin and John Adams  Sept 3 Ratification

100. Benjamin’s West unfinished painting

101.  Merchants can collect Debt  Loyalists property returned

102.  Independent nation ◦ Territory  Withdraw all British Troops from our territory  Fishing rights off Canada

103.  John Adams, Ben Franklin, John Jay represent the U.S.  The Americans won  The United States was a free and independent country  Boundary  British promised to withdraw their troops from American territory  Americans had the right to fish off the coast of Canada  Americans agreed to return lost land to Loyalists.  Ratified and signed September, 1783

105. A new nation is recognized by Great Britain!

106. “With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take my leave of you.” December 4, 1783

107.  The principles of the Revolution changed the world.  What were these principles??

108.  Home Field Advantage ◦ Ambush  Help from other Nations ◦ France and Spain  Leadership ◦ Continental Congress / GW  Spirit of the Patriots ◦ Independence

109.  The US in 1783

112.  Boycott  Committee of Correspondence  Propaganda  Quartering  Loyalist  Patriot  Olive Branch Petition  Hessian  Minuteman  Redcoat  Lexington and Concord  Bunker Hill  Fort Ticonderoga  Saratoga  Yorktown  Germantown  Brandywine  Fort Mifflin  Paoli King George III George Washington Ben Franklin John and Sam Adams Thomas Jefferson John Hancock Rochambeau Friedrich Von Stueben John Paul Jones Francis Marion Navigation Acts Proclamation of 1763 Sugar Act 1764 Stamp Act 1765 Declaratory Act 1766 Townshend Acts 1767 Tea Act 1773 Boston Massacre – March 5 1770 Coercive Acts