UNIT 5: AMERICAN REVOLUTION

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UNIT 5 AMERICAN REVOLUTION

• Essential Questions
• What makes something Revolutionary?
• Why dont the strongest always win?
• What is a turning point?
• What makes a leader great?
• When is it time to quit?
• How can fear create change?

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TREATY OF PARIS 1763 ends the ____________________
___________ ENGLAND WINS _______________________
_ ENGLAND angry at the American colonists
WHY? 1. 2.
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ENGLAND takes action!

• England demands _______________________________
• HOW?
• __________
• IMPORTANT Americans love being __________,
  they just dont want to pay taxes directly to
  _______________

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LOCKER TAX

• Starting tomorrow you will have to pay 1 per day
  to use your locker.
• Is this fair?
• Why is this a bad tax?
• How would you fight this tax?

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• ENGLAND PUTS A DIRECT TAX ON THE COLONISTS
• THE ___________
• All ________ products would be _____ and receive
  a _______

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HOW CAN THE COLONISTS FIGHT ENGLAND?

• 1. SONS OF LIBERTY
• PROTESTS
• BOYCOTTS

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3. BOYCOTTSOR______________________________

• ______________________________
• 13 COLONIES are Englands
• ___________________________________
• If they refuse to buy British goods they put

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Colonial protests work__________________________
_______________!!!

• What lesson did the colonists learn about
  violence and protests???

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SELF-TEST

• Why did ENGLAND raise taxes on the colonies?
• How could you argue that this was a dumb move?
• Who were the Sons of Liberty?
• Why is a boycott a great tool for the colonists
  to use against their mother country?

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ENGLAND does not like losing to their colonists
so they pass

• THE_____________________________________
• Declaring they can ____ the colonies if they
  choose.
• Why is this Act meaningless?

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BOSTON MASSACRE?

• _________ throws snowballs and garbage at British
  soldiers in Boston
• Mob moves toward soldiers
• Soldiers ___________________
• _____________________________
• ___________________ Free Black man killed
• WAS IT A MASSACRE????????????

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PROPAGANDA
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PROPAGANDA

• The Boston Massacre is an example of
  PROPAGANDA _____________
• ________________________________
• Colonists call it a MASSACRE to get popular
  support.
• The mob did _____________________
• MOST OF THE SOLDIERS FOUND
• ____________________
• One was defended by __________!

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BOSTON TEA PARTY

• England sends __________ to the colonies.
• But it still has a___________
• ______________________
• Dress like _______ and ______________________!

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ENGLAND UPSET WITH TEA PARTY

• England passes
• ______________________
• 1. SHUTS _________________
• 2. TEA ____________________
• 3. MORE _________________SENT TO THE COLONIES

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1st Continental Congress

• COLONISTS meet in _________________and promise to
  support ________
• _________________________
• SWEAR _____________ TO THE KING!

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THE SHOT HEARD AROUND THE WORLD

• LEXINGTON and CONCORD
• The Brits send soldiers to the countryside around
  Boston to
• __________________________________________________
  ______
• Paul Revere rides to the countryside to warn
  everyone, ___________________________!

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The Redcoats get to __________

• Someone fires ____________________________

• British march to Concord and then head back to
  Boston

• On the road back to Boston the colonist use
  __________________________________________________
  ____
• ___________________________

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NO TURNING BACK! WAR!

• The shots fired at __________________
• The ___________________on the march back to
  __________ are the breaking points.
• WORDS WILL NOT SETTLE THESE DIFFERENCES NOW IT IS
  
• ________

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British advantage American advantage

British Disadvantage American Disadvantage

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• LOYALISTS / TORIES
• PATRIOTS

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• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Colonists
• British win the battle

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LESSONS FROM BUNKER HILL

• BOSTON 1775
• British learn that the war will _______________
• British learn that _________________ will not
  work against in a _________________

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2nd Continental Congress

• 2CC meets (__________________)
• Meet to deal with the results of
• _______________________________
• GEORGE WASHINGTON chosen
• ________________________________

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Why Washington????

• SOUTHERNER Shows this is _______________________
  _____
• Military Experience? ____________________________
  
• His GREATEST QUALITY
• PERSISTENCE

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British Strategy to win the war

• England wanted to split the colonies
• Along the
• THE GOAL
• Step 1 Capture New York City
• JULY 1776

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The Declaration of Independence

• Colonies officially declare their
• Southerners make sure that

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October 1776

• British leave ______________
• ________________________
• Battle of Valcour Benedict Arnold builds a
  small fleet of ships and ________________
• __________________________
• Brits decide to ___________
• _________________________.

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Dec. 1776 Washington attacks ____________________
___ ______________________________________________
___ ______________________________________________
___. One of Washingtons few victories of the
war. ___________________________________________
_____________
Washington Crossing the Delaware
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1777

• America adopts __________
• Valley Forge Washington spends
  ________________in Pennsylvania
• British capture ___________

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• 1777 Saratoga
• British general Burgoyne gets ________________
• ___________________.
• He loses his entire army ______________________
  to the colonists
• Huge American victory_____________________________
  ___________________________________

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1778 France forms an alliance with America

• Why?
• Saratoga proved that the
• ______________________
• They ________________
• Anything that hurts _______
• ________________________
• What does America get?

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LATER WAR The British shift the war
__________-_________. The campaign
is ___________________ British Army ends up
in__________________
Phase III The Southern Strategy 1780-1781
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British General Cornwallis Puts his troops on the
__________ ______________________. He assumes
this will be safe because ________________________
____. The French let the US borrow their
__________________ And finally put their
soldiers into battle. The French blockade
the __________________________ And a combined
French and American ARMY _______________________.
General Cornwallis is forced to surrender to
____________________________.
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