unit 3 american revolution. section 1 – road to revolution
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Unit 3
American Revolution
Section 1 – Road to Revolution
Jeffrey Amherst
Pontiac
Fort Detroit
Pontiac’s War
Proclamation of 1763
• control
• angered
No taxation without representation!
Section 1 – Road to Revolution
Sons of Liberty
Section 1 – Road to Revolution
• boycott
• repealed
Charles Townshend
Section 1 – Road to Revolution
• writs of assistance
• tea
Samuel Adams
Section 1 – Road to Revolution
• printers
George Washington Patrick Henry
Crispus Attucks
Section 1 – Road to Revolution
• Boston Massacre
John Adams
England’s King George III
Section 1 – Road to Revolution
• Tea Act
• monopoly
• smugglers
• boycott
Samuel Adams John Hancock
Section 1 – Road to Revolution
• Boston Tea Party(December 16, 1773)
• control
• rights
Section 1 – Road to Revolution
• Intolerable Acts(Coercive Acts)
• shut down the port of Boston
• Quartering Act
• Amendment 1– Freedoms of Religion, Speech, Press,
Assembly, and Petition• Protects 5 basic rights
Added because of Intolerable Acts passed by England for the colonies
• Amendment 3– Lodging Troops in Private Homes
• Limits the government’s right to use private homes to house soldiers – must have consent of the owner
Added because of Quartering Acts passed by England for the colonies
Section 1 – Road to Revolution
• Quebec Act
Section 1 – Road to Revolution
• Philadelphia
• First Continental Congress
• stop exporting
• militia
• minutemen
Thomas Gage
Paul Revere
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Now listen my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.”
John Parker Statue in Lexington
Lexington skirmish
Concord battleground
Section 1 – Road to Revolution
• sharpshooters
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The shot heard round the world.”
Section 2 – The American Revolution
Patrick Henry
“Give me liberty or give me death.”
American Revolution began on April 19, 1775at Lexington and Concord
1775 England ColoniesWeapons & supplies Had all they needed Next to none
Armies Biggest in world Next to none
Navy Largest in world None
Money Richest in world
(biggest country)
Next to nothing
Biggest advantage Americans had: fighting on their own soil, they knew the terrain.
Green Mountain Boysled by
Ethan Allen
Section 2 – The American Revolution
• Fort Ticonderoga(first big battle of the American Revolution)
• cannon
• Canada
Section 2 – The American Revolution
• Second Continental Congress
• Olive Branch Petition
• Continental Army
• George Washington
Battle of Bunker Hill (Breed’s Hill)
Colonel British General William Prescott William Howe
Section 2 – The American Revolution
“Don’t shoot until you see
the whites of their eyes!”
Battle of Bunker Hill (Breed’s Hill)
Section 2 – The American Revolution
• gunpowder
• moral
Battle of Bunker Hill (Breed’s Hill)
Section 2 – The American Revolution
• mistrusted
• loyalty
Section 2 – The American Revolution
• blockade
• Quebec
Richard Montgomery Benedict Arnold
Section 2 – The American Revolution
• hunger and disease
Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense
Section 2 – The American Revolution
• independence
• traitors
John Adams Benjamin Franklin
Robert Livingston Roger Sherman
Thomas Jefferson
“Father” of the
Declaration of
Independence
John Hancock
Declaration of Independence
3 main parts
1. Basic rights– governments– duty
2. British wrongs
3. An independent nation
–United States of America
Declaration of Independence
United States of America
• ties with Britain were cut
• free
• alliances and trade
Section 2 – The American Revolution
• divided
• Patriots– People who wanted colonists to win the revolution
• Loyalists– People who wanted England to win the revolution
Section 2 – The American Revolution
• fled
• lost
Section 2 – The American Revolution
• middle states
• worst
• Battle of Long Island
Section 2 – The American Revolution
• Nathan Hale
• captured
• death
Nathan Hale
“I only regret
that I have but
one life to lose
for my country.”
Thomas Paine wrote The Crisis
Battle of Trenton
Washington Crossing the Delaware River
British General Charles Cornwallis
Princeton
Section 2 – The American Revolution
• strategy
• stop the flow of soldiers and supplies
________
Valley Forge
“Gentleman Johnny” Burgoyne
Section 2 – The American Revolution
• wives and children
_____
Battle of SaratogaOct. 17, 1777
Section 2 – The American Revolution
• France
Benjamin Franklin
• Sent by Continental Congress to Paris in 1776
• His mission:
To persuade French King Louis XVI to help the Americans
• Wanted help from France
– Weapons
– Supplies
• Wanted France to declare war on Britain
– France had a strong navy
Continental Congress
France
• Still angry with Britain over defeat in French and Indian War
• King did not want to openly help Americans unless they could win
• Victory at Saratoga convinced France to become an ally of the U.S.
France
• February 1778, France became first nation to sign a treaty with U.S.
– Recognized U.S. as a nation
– Agreed to provide military aid
European Help
• France declared war on England
• Spain declared war on England
• Holland declared war on England
Marquis de Lafayette
Thaddeus Kosciusko
Casimir Pulaski
Bernardo de Galvez
Friedrich von Steuben
Valley Forge
Section 2 – The American Revolution
• disease and frostbite
Martha Washington
Section 2 – The American Revolution
• Appalachian Mountains
• Lexington
• Louisville
George Rogers Clark
Section 2 – The American Revolution
• Kaskaskia
• Cahokia
Section 2 – The American Revolution
• blockaded
John Paul Jones - Father of U.S. Navy
Bonhomme Richard
vs.
English warship
Serapis
John Paul Jones
“I have not yet
begun to fight!”
Bonhomme Richard
• South
• Charleston– worst American
defeat______
Benedict Arnold
West Point
Francis Marion – the Swamp Fox
Nathanael Greene
• Guilford Courthouse
– bloody______
______Virginia
British GeneralCornwallis
surrenders atYorktown
Oct. 17, 1781
Section 2 – The American Revolution
• France helped Americans win
John Adams Benjamin Franklin
John Jay Henry Laurens
Treaty of Paris
• Britain recognized U.S. as independent nation
• U.S. borders extended from Atlantic Ocean to Mississippi River
• Florida was returned to Spain
• Americans agreed to ask state legislatures to pay Loyalists for property they lost during the war
Section 2 – The American Revolution
• April 15, 1783 Congress ratified Treaty of Paris
Section 2 – The American Revolution
• farewell
• hero
American Revolution – Causes & Effects
CAUSES1. Proclamation of 1763 stops colonists from moving west.
2. Parliament taxes the colonies to pay British war debts.
3. Intolerable Acts set up harsh rule in Massachusetts.
EFFECTS1. Colonies declare independence.
2. Britain recognizes U.S. independence.
3. U.S. borders extend to Florida and to Mississippi River.
4. George Washington emerges as a leader.