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=Chapter 6: The American Revolution=



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In This Corner, The Brits....

In This Corner, The Yanks....

=Mr Washington Goes to War=

="I declare with the utmost sincerity,= =I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with"=

=George's Faults= =Washington Commanding a country= = =

=Declaring Independence= == = = = = =Stirring up colonists' emotions= == =Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" 1776= = = = = = = = = =American's start Writing History= ==

Thomas Jefferson 1776
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=Kissing Up to the French= == = = = = = = =Undergoing Life Changes: The Loyalists and the Slave= =Remaining loyal to the crown= media type="youtube" key="AwHvyqNDUvE" height="315" width="420"

=Slavery Issues= == = =

media type="custom" key="10531474" = = = = = = =Winning a War= =Felling a British fort= =Battling it out on Bunker - make that Breed's - Hill= =Losing the campaign in Canada= =Nixing plans to take New York= =Reigning victorious at Trenton and Princeton= = = =Making the Brits surrender at Saratoga= = = = = =Sparring at sea= = = = = =Losing big in Charleston= = = = = = = =Turning things around at Yorktown=

=Lexington, Concord=

Evacuation Day Boston

The war in the North

War of Attrition


Saratoga

Social and Financial Perils of the Revolution

The French Alliance

The Revolution in the South

The Patriots

Cornwallis's Surrender at Yorktown

Treaty of Paris

=Talk to your neighbor: =

=Discuss in detail some of the important reasons, = =why Americans were victorious at the conclusion of the Revolution? =

Creating Republican Institutions, 1776-1778



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The Loyalist Exodus

The Articles of Confederation

Shays' Rebellion

The Philadelphia Convention







=Washington= =Bunker Hill=

=Complete separation from Britain?=

= How and why did the Americans win the War for Independence? = =**British Military strategies**= =North= =General Thomas Howe= =**British naval blockade**=
 * =War of Attrition=
 * ==Isolate New England==
 * ==Philadelphia?==
 * ==Burgoyne forced to surrender==

American Financial Troubles
= = = = =**The French Alliance and American Victory**= The French-Indian war American victory at Saratoga The Treaty of Alliance British taxes Parliament repeals colonial taxes =**South**= =Allied ulterior motives= =The Patriot Advantage= =Patriot Victory=
 * ===Patriots help the Revolution===
 * ===war time crimes===
 * ===American paper money===
 * ===congress borrows gold from France===
 * ===some American farmers===
 * ===Continental army suffers===
 * offers peace with patriots
 * West Indies
 * Spain
 * Southern slavery
 * Nathanael Green
 * British Victories
 * Cornwallis surrenders his British troops
 * Parliamentary anger
 * Colonial support
 * Home field advantage
 * Diplomacy
 * Native Americans British Alliance
 * Treaty Provisions
 * Treatment of Loyalists
 * British Peace, American profits





=Resolved: That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved. =



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=Creating Republican Institutions 1776-1778=
 * ==Republicanism==
 * ==New Republics==
 * ==Adams Plan==

=Women and the New Republic=
 * ==Second class citizens==
 * ==The need for educated citizens==
 * ==Founding Fathers==
 * ==Equality in politics==
 * ==Average Americans==
 * ==Loyalists==
 * ==Slavery?==
 * ==New Social Rhetoric==

Articles of Confederation
=Shays' Rebellion= =The Constitution of 1787=
 * ==1781==
 * ==States Rights==
 * ==problems==
 * ==Recession==
 * ==States Debts==
 * ==Yeomen Debt Plans==
 * ==Massachusetts and new Act==
 * ==From the Pan into the Fire==

Philadelphia Convention
=Ratification=
 * ==James Madison's Virgina Plan==
 * ==New Jersey Plan==
 * ==Great Compromise==
 * ==Federal (National) powers==
 * ==September 17, 1778==
 * ==Federalists==
 * ==Anti-federalists==
 * ==Popular opinion==
 * ==Federalists Plan==
 * ==Civil Religion==

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