1. Advantages and Disadvantages of the Revolutionary War
Welcome back from Thanksgiving Break!

2. Advantages and Disadvantages
Essential Question: How did the colonists win the war?
Agenda:
Battle of Yorktown Review
Advantages v Disadvantages of the war
Closure: Move ‘round the room

3. Warm Up
Have you ever gotten trapped somewhere?

4. Battle of Yorktown Patriots were close to losing the war
Washington decided to trap British at Yorktown, Virginia.
French soldiers helped Americans cut off the British escape from Yorktown
French Navy took control of Chesapeake Bay
Cornwallis (British General) surrendered after weeks of a siege (being surrounded by American Army)

5. Notes Set Up EQ: How did the Colonists win the war?
Topic: Advantages and Disadvantages of the Revolutionary War
Make a T-Chart that says ‘Colonial Advantages’ on one side and ‘Colonial Disadvantages/British Advantages’ on the other side

6. Colonial Advantages
Better Leadership
Foreign Aid
Home-field advantage

7. Colonial Advantage
Motivation

8. Colonial Disadvantages
Untrained
Small Navy
Outnumbered

9. British Advantages
Navy
Well-Trained

10. British Disadvantages
DISTANCE

11. Treaty of Paris: p. 139 Ben Franklin helped negotiate
1783: Britain recognized the independence of the United States
Set the border of the U.S. at the Mississippi River

12. Boundaries of the United States established
West=Mississippi River
North=Canada
South=Spanish Florida

13. Was the Treaty Followed?NO
America did not repay war debts owed to British merchants or return Loyalist property seized during the war
England did not return captured slaves
English refused to leave bases in the Great Lakes (Detroit)
Question=What is the stage set for?

14. Exit Ticket What do you think?
Who had the better chance to win the war…the Colonials or the British?