1. Chapter 8, Part 3

2. Saratoga
Why significant?

3. French aid France still angry at Britain…
Saw this as their chance to regain power

4. Benjamin Franklin Sent to negotiate with France Dressed symbolically:
White walking stick
Simple cap
American made clothes

5. Meanwhile…
1777- British basically offered colonists “colonial home rule”
All they had wanted except independence
Too little, too late

6. French Alliance New trade privileges to Americans
Both countries would fight until Am. Independence was won
Neither would sign a peace treaty without the consent of the other
Guaranteed to protect each other’s territories “now and forever”

7. World War?
Spain also entered on American and French side (also Holland)
War spread to Europe, South America, Caribbean, and Asia

8. America + France “Daddy and I killed the bear”
From , France supplied:
Guns
Money
Equipment
Half of armed forces
Almost all naval power

9. Indians in the War Most Indians allied with the British “Hair buyers”
Oneidas and Tuscaroras sided with Americans, pretty much everyone else sided with British

10. British allies Senecas, Mohawks, Cayugas, Onondagas
Joseph Brant (Mohawk chief) urged Indians to side with Britain:
Believed British would stop American expansion into the west

11. Treaty of Fort Stanwix
First treaty signed between United States and Indian nation
Pro-British Iroquois
Indians ceded lots of land

12. Yorktown
Colonial win
Parliament begins calling for peace

13. Peace at Paris
King George wanted to keep fighting but British tired of war
Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay arrived in Paris to negotiate
Supposed to keep France in the loop according to Congress

14. France’s game Wanted to keep America small and weak
Planned to give land west of Appalachians to Spain:
In thanks for helping during the war
Also to keep America small and weak

15. John Jay suspicious
Makes separate treaty with Britain

16. Treaty of Paris 1783
Britain formally recognized America’s independence
Boundaries: west- Mississippi
north- Great Lakes
south- Spanish Florida

17. Treaty of Paris 1783 Americans had to: Not persecute Loyalists
Congress was to recommend that confiscated Loyalist property be restored
Let British collect debts from before the war

23. Interactive Notebook section 3
Count 3 pages from the review pages in the very back:
Label:
1. Rebellions/Revolts
2. Wars
3. Treaties

24. Rebellions/Revolts

25. Rebellions/Revolts Bacon’s Rebellion- 1676- Virginia
Pueblo Revolt/Popé’s Rebellion New Mexico
Stono Rebellion South Carolina
Pontiac’s Rebellion Great Lakes Region

26. Wars Pequot War- 1630s- British vs. Pequots over land
French and Indian War
American Revolution

27. Treaties Treaty of Tordesillas 1494 Treaty of Paris 1763
Treaty of Fort Stanwix 1784