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Wednesday The Articles of the Confederation: a bad first constitution! Thursday Remember the Ladies! Review for Unit 3 test Friday Unit 3 Test. This Week’s Agenda (11/4- 11/8). Monday Unit 1-3 Bonus Round Tuesday Review Important Battles/ Events of the Revolution. Wednesday
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Wednesday The Articles of the Confederation: a bad first constitution! Thursday Remember the Ladies! Review for Unit 3 test Friday Unit 3 Test This Week’s Agenda (11/4- 11/8) Monday Unit 1-3 Bonus Round Tuesday Review Important Battles/ Events of the Revolution
Wednesday - Continue w/ Articles… Thursday Remember the Ladies! Review Unit 3 Test material Friday Unit 3 Test This Week’s Pre-AP Agenda (11/4- 11/8) Monday Unit 1-3 Bonus Round Tuesday Review Important Battles/ Events of the Revolution Begin: The Articles of the Confederation: a bad first constitution!
Lexington and Concord Paul Revere’s ride guerilla warfare “shot heard round the world”
Bunker Hill (really at Breed’s Hill) “don’t shoot ‘til you see the whites of their eyes!” Secures Boston for the British
Thomas Paine’s The American Crisis main idea was to encourage patriots to keep fighting
“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 their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of men and women.”
December 26, 1776 Early morning raid on Hessian troops (German mercenaries- paid soldiers) camped at what becomes: The Battle of Trenton Most of the men (British allies) were taken as prisoners of war
Battle of Princeton – Jan 2, 1777 General Cornwallis plans to attack Washington’s camp, but- the Patriots left their campfires burning and then surrounded and defeated the British army After raiding supplies for the winter- Washington retreats
"Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it."–The Crisis by Thomas Paine
"We have this day no less than 2,873 men in camp, unfit for duty because they are barefooted and otherwise naked." -George WashingtonVALLEY FORGE -- December 23, 1777
“Theatres of War” North South West Water
War on the Frontier Pioneers in modern-day states of Indiana and Ohio began to fight British soldiers. George Rogers Clark led these men on attacks of British forts. Replica of Fort Randolph
War at Sea The U.S. had a very small Navy Privateers– A privately owned ship that has permission to fight for the government. “I have not yet begun to fight!” • John Paul Jones • in the battle of the Bonhomme Richard vs. the HMS Serapis.
Guerrilla Warfare Quick attacks and retreat: Learned from fighting the Native Americans Surprise attacks on the British. Francis Marion – “The Swamp Fox”
Victory at Yorktown Washington surrounded General Cornwallis with Continental and French soldiers. French Navy blocked the British escape by sea. Cornwallis surrendered October 19, 1781