AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – Written by Thomas Jefferson, it outlines the reasons why the U.S. is separating from Great Britain

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – The English enlightenment philosopher from whom Thomas Jefferson drew the ideas of “all men are created equal” and “men are entitled to life, liberty, and property”

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – JOHN LOCKE

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – He is considered to be the American enlightenment thinker and was sent to Paris as part of the negotiation team demanding Britain’s recognition of American independence

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – The turning point of the Revolution (Oct. 1777) when the French began to openly aid the American rebels against the British

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – BATTLE OF SARATOGA

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – The hardest winter of Gen. Washington’s command was spent here ( ) Baron von Steuben (a Prussian) arrived to assist with the training of the troops into a professional military unit

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – VALLEY FORGE, VA

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – On Christmas night, 1776, Washington crossed this River into Trenton, NJ, surprising the Hessian soldiers who were surprised by the attack. Americans won a much-needed victory here at Trenton and a week later at Princeton, NJ to boost their morale

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – DELAWARE RIVER

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – Leader of the Continental Army for the U.S. Men willing to follow him because of his leadership skills and strong character (not because he was a military tactitian)

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – GEORGE WASHINGTON

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – He arrived from France and assisted George Washington at Valley Forge. He lobbied for French reinforcements in France in 1779 He was also at Yorktown when Cornwallis was defeated

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – He was the British general who surrendered at Yorktown in October 1781 giving the victory to the Americans

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – GENERAL CORNWALLIS

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – This battle ended the American Revolution and resulted in a British surrender when Cornwallis’s men were bottled up on a peninsula in Virginia from troops by land and the French by sea

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – BATTLE OF YORKTOWN

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – The terms of this treaty in 1783 set the boundaries of the new nation from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River and from Canada to Florida

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – TREATY OF PARIS OF 1783