Transcript Review over Important Events of the American

The American
Revolution Part II
“A World Turned Upside Down”
The Battle of Bunker Hill
June 16,1775
Fought outside Boston.
It is a fortified area on
Breed’s Hill filled with
several thousand
colonists.
 The battle shows that
the colonists will fight
if protected from
British fire.
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New York City in Flames
(1776)
The Battle of Saratoga,
August- October 1777
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The British are harassed by
colonial guerilla forces and end
up stretching their supply lines.
The British will surrender to
the Colonial forces led by
General Horatio Gates
Saratoga is important because
it is a major defeat for the
British and is a turning point
that shows the French that the
colonies may be able to win the
war.
Saratoga is
considered the
turning point of the
war.
 The French will
begin to supply
arms, men and
their navy to help
the colonies.
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A personal view of the
American Revolution
“The ball first cut off the head of Smith, a stout
heavy man, and dashed it open, then took Taylor
across the bowels; it then struck Sergeant Garret
of our company on the hip, took off the point of the
hip bone . Oh, What a sight it was to see within a
distance of six rods those men with their legs and
arms and guns and packs all in a heap!”
Connecticut Soldier, 1777
The Battle of Yorktown, October 1781
The French are helping the Continental
Army with men, weapons and warships
 The Americans and the French will
corner the British on a small peninsula
and bombard them with cannon fire.
 The British will surrender and end the
American Revolution.
 The colonists will win the American
Revolution with this victory.
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Count de
Rochambeau
Admiral
De Grasse
The Battle of Yorktown, October 1781
Cornwallis’ Surrender at Yorktown
Painted by John Trumbull, 1797
The Treaty of Paris, 1783
THE WAR ENDS WITH THESE CONDITIONS:
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“free, sovereign and independent states”
British must remove all troops from forts
Boundary for United States is the Mississippi
Loyalist would have rights and property
protected
captured slaves must be returned to owners
North America After the Treaty of Paris, 1783
View of America
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Revolution stemmed from
desire of freedom
Laws
Freedom of press
Freedom of Religion
American attitude: get it done
Men and women: equal but
different
“The Revolution of the United States was the
result of a mature and reflecting preference for
freedom, and not of a vague or ill-defined craving
for independence. It contracted no alliance with
the turbulent passions of anarchy, but its course
was marked, on the contrary, by a love of order
and law. It was never assumed in the United
States that the citizen of a free country has a right
to do whatever he pleases; on the contrary, more
social obligations were there imposed upon him
than anywhere else. No idea was ever entertained
of attacking the principle or contesting the rights of
society; but the exercise of its authority was
divided, in order that the office might be powerful
and the officer insignificant, and that the
community should be at once regulated and free.”
Alexis de Tocqueville from Democracy in America