1. A.P. U.S. History Mr. Cullivan
Open With Patriot 6: 6:27-8:47
The Revolutionary War
A.P. U.S. History
Mr. Cullivan

2. Relative Strengths British Strengths B. Strategy Army Navy Leadership
Manufacturing & Money
Government organization
Population
B. Strategy
Pacify rebellion

3. Relative Strengths C. Colonial Strengths D. Strategy A defensive war
No “nerve center”
Moral righteousness
Geographic isolation/ Countryside
Foreign alliances possible
French Flag
D. Strategy
Persevere
War of attrition
Spanish Flag

4. Relative Strengths
Misc. War Effort
Enlistments
Weapons

5. Northern Campaigns Long Island Jersey Campaign Washington retreats
British don’t pursue

6. Battle of Trenton December 26th, 1776
A. Desperately needed a victory
“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis shrink from the service of his country; but he who stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only which gives everything its value. Heaven only knows how to put a price on its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should be highly rated.”
-Thomas Paine
The Crossing 2:18-5:42

7. Battle of Saratoga October 1777
Turning Point in War
Leads to French Alliance (1778)
Reading
A modern-day re-enactment

8. Southern Campaigns A. Cornwallis invades the South South Carolina
Charlestown invaded
Camden, S.C.
King’s Mountain
Cowpens
Gates
Vid 3: The Patriot Part 5 New 1:00- End
King’s Mountain

9. Battle of Guilford Courthouse
Southern Campaigns
Greene’s Strategy
Guilford Courthouse
Yorktown (1781)
Count de Rochambeau
Video 4- After Greene’s Strategy- Patriot Part 7 5:15-5:56, 6:25-6:55
Could show counter to this strategy right after - Part 8 Response to Guerilla Warfare
Swamp Fox
Admiral De Grasse
Battle of Guilford Courthouse

10. Cornwallis’ Surrender at Yorktown:
“The World Turned Upside Down!”
Painted by John Trumbull, 1797

11. You actually did something right!
THANKS FRANCE
Lafayette Park
You actually did something right!

12. North America After the Treaty of Paris, 1783
Peace of Paris- 1783
North America After the Treaty of Paris, 1783

13. Main Idea
Despite considerable loyalist opposition, as well as Great Britain’s apparently overwhelming military and financial advantages, the Patriot cause succeeded because of the actions of colonial militias and the Continental Army, George Washington’s military leadership, the colonists’ ideological commitment and resilience, and assistance sent by European allies.

14. Post-Revolutionary America
Economic changes
Mercantilist system gone
Piracy
Development of new industries

15. Post-Revolutionary America
Social Changes
Egalitarianism
Anglican Church removed
Abolition/manumission
Women’s role

16. To what extent was the American Revolution a “radical” revolution?
Discussion Question
To what extent was the American Revolution a “radical” revolution?