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Title: THE REVOLUTION!!!!


1
THE REVOLUTION!!!!
  • http//www.youtube.com/watch?vt2FAAVPX-jg
  • OHHHH YEAHHHH!

2
F.O.A. (Bellwork)
  • Give me liberty or give me death. Patrick
    Henry
  • Tell me what this quote means with a one-sentence
    answer.

3
EQs
  • What were the causes and consequences of the
    Revolutionary War? (8.5 spi 4)
  • What were some of the major battles of the
    American Revolution? (8.5 spi 4)

4
Today
  • Causes BrainPop
  • American Revolution pre-test
  • Notes on American Revolution
  • American Revolution BrainPop

5
Today
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Tomorrow
  • In 2008, 58 percent of registered American voters
    actually voted. What would the founding fathers
    think of this?

7
After the Acts. . .
  • First Continental Congress
  • Representatives from each of the 13 colonies
    (except GA) met in Philadelphia (Oct 1774)
  • Some wanted violence (VA), but others were
    seeking peace with Britain (PA, NY)
  • Compromised and wrote the Declaration of Rights
    (life, liberty, property, yadayadayada) sent it
    King George of England
  • Patriots

8
Reveres Ride
9
  • The Story
  • British looking to attack Concord, MA to take
    over a weapons stock
  • Revere, a Patriot spy, hears about it and decides
    to help alert the colonial militia
  • Small, local fighting force of citizens
  • One if by land, two if by sea.
  • William Dawes also rides Revere gets captured

10
Libertys Kids
  • Watch Libertys Kids and write down two things
    you notice.

11
Lexington Concord
  • First fighting happened in Lexington, MA
  • Small exchange of gunfire British win this one
    very easily
  • Colonial troops retreat to Concord, MA and
    prepare to fight
  • British Redcoats were an easy target
  • British forced to retreat back to Boston

12
Second Continental Congress
  • Meets in May, 1775
  • Still divided, but willing to compromise
  • Created the Continental Army and appointed George
    Washington as its leader
  • Olive Branch Petition
  • Last attempt at peace with King George

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Battle of Bunker Hill
  • Bunker Hill (June, 1775)
  • Colonial troops attack from the top of a large
    hill British troops are forced to retreat twice
  • Redcoats eventually win, but lose twice as many
    men as the colonists
  • Proved the colonists could fight with the British

14
Assignment
  • Do questions 1-4 all parts on page 116.
  • This assignment is due when you enter class on
    Wednesday.

15
DECLARING INDEPENDENCE (almost)
  • Thomas Paine Common Sense
  • 1776
  • Englishman
  • Challenged the idea of rule by monarch
  • Claimed citizens should make the laws against
    tyranny

16
The Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776)
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  • Written by Thomas Jefferson
  • Three major parts
  • Part 1 argues that all people have unalienable
    rights (rights that cannot be taken away)
  • Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness
  • Raises the question of slavery
  • Part 2 protests the unfair taxes and housing of
    troops in America
  • Part 3 argues that the colonies have the right to
    break from England
  • Enlightenment idea of social contract

18
You gotta pick a side. . .
  • Patriots were considered to be traitors
  • Those who opposed the new Dec. of Independence
    were called Loyalists or Tories
  • Both sides began recruiting Indians to fight
    most sided with Britain

19
3 Groups left out. . .
  • Women
  • Slaves
  • Indians
  • The DOI says nothing about the rights of these
    groups.

20
Other battles. . .
  • Trenton
  • Continental Army is in danger of completely
    falling apart needs a big-time victory
  • Washington launches a surprise attack on German
    mercenaries at Trenton, NJ
  • Victory at Trenton inspires more colonists to
    enlist in the army

21
  • Saratoga
  • The British respond to Trenton by attempting to
    cut off New England from the rest of the
    colonies Generals Howe and Burgoyne (Redcoats)
    to attack from north and south to take New York
  • Doesnt work Colonists take 8,000 prisoners

22
Help from Europe
  • France
  • Marquis de Lafayette
  • Spain
  • Holland

23
Strengths and Weaknesses
  • Colonial Forces
  • Strengths
  • Fought for a cause they believed in
  • Got help from European nations (France Spain)
  • Weaknesses
  • Untrained, poorly equipped soldiers
  • Small navy

British Forces Strengths -Well-trained,
well-equipped soldiers -Large, powerful
navy Weaknesses -Had to cross the Atlantic
Ocean -Used mercenaries as soldiers
24
Valley Forge (Winter, 1777)
  • Thousands of Patriot soldiers die at Valley
    Forge, PA during the 1777-78 winter.
  • Somehow, the Patriot army becomes stronger and
    tighter

25
Fighting in the South
  • Fighting in the southern colonies was extremely
    brutal
  • Redcoat soldiers not only fought soldiers but
    also destroyed crops, lands, and animals as they
    moved across the South
  • The fall of Georgia and South Carolina to the
    Redcoats forced the Southern Patriots to fight a
    new way

26
Guerilla Warfare
  • Swift hit-and-run tactics attacks that avoided
    large battles in open fields
  • Francis Marion aka Swamp Fox

27
Final Battle
CORNWALLIS
  • Yorktown
  • Washington combined forces with the French to
    surround the British general Lord Cornwallis

MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
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  • Fighting at Yorktown continues for months
  • French ships prevented the British from receiving
    supplies by water
  • Oct. 19, 1781 Cornwallis surrenders
  • British loss at Yorktown signals the end of the
    Revolutionary War.

30
Treaty of Paris, 1783
  • The British finally recognize the United States
    of America as an independent nation
  • Borders of North America redrawn
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