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Winning the War
  • Section 4.4

Lesson Objective To understand the Southern
Campaign and the end of the Revolutionary War
2
MATCHING
  • Burgoyne
  • 2. Cornwallis
  • 3. Howe
  • 4. John Jay
  • 5. Lafayette
  1. Defeated at Yorktown
  2. Spent the Winter of 77-78 in Philly
  3. Young French officer
  4. Negotiated Treaty of Paris
  5. Defeated at Saratoga
  6. Led American forces in Canada campaign

3
European Allies Shift the Balance
  • Baron Friedrich von Steuben
  • Marquis de Lafayette
  • Made regular soldiers out of country bumpkins
    at Valley Forge
  • Believed in the colonists cause
  • Became a very close friend of G.W.
  • Suffered through Valley Forge
  • Called for France to help out

4
British Move South
  • Didnt fare too well in the Middle and Northern
    colonies ????
  • Hoped they could seize ports and launch attacks
    on the French in the West Indies.
  • What are other reasons?

5
Early Success in the South
  • Spring 1779 British controlled Georgia
  • Clinton replaces Howe in N.Y.
  • Charles Cornwallis led the expedition in the
    South
  • May 1780 Battle of Charles Town
  • British captured 5,500 colonial soldiers
  • August 1780 - British win another big victory at
    the Battle of Camden

???
  • African Americans begin to enter the war
  • Who are they usually fighting for and why?

6
Colonists Fight Back
  • Nathanael Greene and Daniel Morgan take over
    colonial forces
  • Jan. 1781 Battle of Cowpens
  • Cornwalis scored a victory at the Guildford Court
    House, but lost ¼ of his men in the process
  • What were some of the issues the British were
    having?
  • Where did Cornwallis decide to go next? Why was
    it such a mistake?

Swamp Fox Francis Marion
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Battle of Yorktown, Oct. 17, 1781
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Peace at Paris!
  • Treaty of Paris of 1783
  • Recognized the independence of the United States
  • Recognized Florida, Mississippi and Old North
    West (Ohio, etc.) as part of U.S.
  • No provisions on when the British will leave
    their forts in the West
  • colonists promised to pay back debts to
    England and give land back to Loyolists
  • Negotiated by Ben Franklin, John Adams, and John
    Jay
  • Americans make a separate peace with England,
    frustrating French and Spanish imperial ambitions

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11
  • Identify whether the new spirit of
    egalitarianism changed various social groups in
    the new United States, and if so, how. (use p.
    116)
  • AFRICAN AMERICANS
  • WOMEN
  • NATIVE AMERICANS

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TERMS
  • Friedrich von Steuben
  • Marquis de Lafayette
  • Charles Cornwallis
  • Yorktown
  • Egalitarianism
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