The Revolutionary War

1. The Revolutionary War By Mr. Lin (a very cool teacher) Image courtesy of www.crocketts.org/sterling/pictures/crockettp.

2. Causes of the Revolution • Taxation • Colonists Organize! • Image Courtesy Of http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/FIP/MA-00145-C~Revolutionary-War-Drum-Lexington-Massachusetts-Posters.jpg

3. Taxation: Stamp Act • Stamp Act • First Meeting At the House of Burgesses • Representatives protest • Decision was made to boycott Stamp Act goods • Result: Stamp Act was finally repealed New Yorkers Protest the Stamp Act Image Courtesy Of http://www.northwestern.edu/observer/issues/2004-05-20/images/lang-of-rights.jpg

4. Stamp act

5. Taxation: Stamp Act • Protest from Pennsylvania. • Image Courtesy of teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/fi/00000014.jpg

6. Taxation: Townshend Act • Townshend Act • Second Meeting At the House of Burgesses • Write a letter claiming that only elected representatives are allowed to tax. • Result • England is angered. • Orders the House of Burgesses to stop meeting • Revolutionary spirit begins to boil Image Courtesy Of http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/ch/RevolutionaryWar/Masik%202002%20Rev%20War_files/slide0024_image027.jpg

7. Taxation: Townshend Act • Response to England’s demand that colonists stop meeting. • Committee of Correspondence • Sons of Liberty (MA) Secret Letter From Committee of Correspondence. Image Courtesy of http://www.haverford.edu/library/special/aids/pymic/hendrickaupaumutp2.jpg

8. Committee of Correspondence • Show “Committee of Correspondence” Movie.

9. Taxation: Townshend Act • Sons of Liberty was an organization that was bent on revolution. They were based out of Boston. Image Courtesy of http://www.evergreen.edu/library/govdocs/hotopics/fourth-of-july/sons-of-libertysm.jpg

10. Taxation: Townshend Act • Many colonists boycotted Townshend Act goods. • On March 5, 1770, colonists protesting the Townshend Act in Boston heckled British soldiers. The soldiers panicked and fired upon the protesters. • This was called the Boston Massacre Image engraved by Paul Revere. Courtesy of http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.americaslibrary.gov/assets/jb/revolut/jb_revolut_boston_1_e.jpgl

11. Boston Massacre

12. Townshend Act –Repealed (except for Tea) • After the Boston Tea Party, parts of the Townshend Act were slowly repealed. • In the end, the Tea Tax was left standing • On December 16, 1773, Bostonian patriots plan a raid on tea cargo on British ships in the harbor. • In New York, the New York assembly refused to help feed and house British troops The Boston Tea Party. Image Courtesy of http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/images/Boston-Tea-Party.jpg

13. Boston Tea Party

14. Intolerable Acts Paul Revere. Image Courtesy of www.lawbuzz.com/.../images /paul.revere.jpg • England responded to Boston’s rebelliousness by shutting down Boston Harbor until they could pay back for all the destroyed tea • They also force colonists to feed and house all British soldiers whenever they were called on to help out. Samuel Adams. Image Courtesy of http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/ temple/images/sam_adams.gif

15. Colonists Organize! • 1st Virginia Convention • Continental Congress • 2nd Virginia Convention • 3rd Virginia Convention Peyton Randolph, chairman of the first Continental Congress. Image Courtesy of www.vahistorical.org/dynasties/peytonrandolph.jpg

16. 1st Virginia Convention • After England disbanded the House of Burgesses, delegates met in secret. • They decided on three main ideas: • Support the actions of Massachusetts • Suggest that the colonies create a Continental Congress • Select a group of representatives to the first Continental Congress. Raleigh’s Tavern, where former delegates from the House of Burgesses secretly met as the first Virginia Convention. Image courtesy of http://www.history.org/Almanack/places/hb/ral.gif

17. 1st Continental Congress • Virginia and many other colonies sent delegates to the first Continental Congress in Philadelphia, PA. • 12 of the 13 colonies sent representatives • Only Georgia did not. They were in the midst of a war with the Creek indians and needed British troops for support. • Decided to write a letter of complaints to King George III. • Little known fact, they declared loyalty to King George, but not to the Parliament! Opening prayer at the first Continental Congress.Image Courtesy of http://www.usfca.edu/ fac_staff/conwell/revolution/first.jpg

18. 2nd Virginia Convention • Patrick Henry declares, “Give me liberty, or give me death!” • Proposed to arm Virginia militias Patrick Henry was a rousing speaker. Image courtesy of http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/CanterburyWoodsES/ Finished%20Pages/techprojects/vasymbols/patrickhenry2.gif

19. Second Virginian Convention

20. 3rd Virginia Convention • Royal Governor Dunmore flees to England • Virginia Convention effectively takes over as the government of Virginia Lord Governor Dunmore. Image courtesy of http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/daybyday/images/dunmore.jpg

21. War • Battle of Lexington and Concord • Battle Bunker Hill • African-Americans • Battle of Trenton • Declaration of Independence • Battle of Saratoga • Battle of Yorktown Convening at Yorktown (1781). Image Courtesy of http://www.revolutionaryday.com/usroute60/yorktown/yorktown.jpg

22. Lexington and Concord • April 18th, 1775, Paul Revere galloped through the Boston area warning that “The British are coming!” • Patriots awoke in a hurry and quickly mustered their arms together. They were to become known as the legendary Minutemen. Paul Revere rides through the night. Image Courtesy of http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18127/18127-h/images/082revere.jpg

23. Lexington and Concord

24. “Stand your ground . . . if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.” – Capt. John Parker (Lexington Militia) • As the patriots faced the British, a shot was fired. The ensuing scene of firings marked the first battle of the Revolutionary War. • Image Courtesy of http://www.americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/LEXCON.HTM

25. Battle of Bunker Hill • June 17, 1775 • This was widely considered one of the first major victories by the American patriots in New England. Painting of the Battle of Bunker Hill Image Courtesy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bunker_Hill_by_Pyle.jpg

26. African-Americans Offered Freedom* • On November of 1775, the British offered African-American slaves freedom on one condition, that they fought with the British against the patriots. • Many slaves took up on the offer, although few ever saw their dream of freedom come true. An African-American pastor from Pennsylvania in the 1780’s. Image Courtesy http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/ppet/ africanamericans/AFRICANAMERICAN5.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.phmc.state. pa.us/ppet/africanamericans/page1.asp&h=297&w=175&sz=10&hl=en&start= 16&tbnid=1_qYUxcBDutVQM:&tbnh=116&tbnw=68&prev=/images%3Fq%3 DAFrican%2BAmericans%2Bin%2Bthe%2BRevolution%26svnum%3D10%26 hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official _s%26sa%3DG

27. James Armistead Lafayette* • James Armistead Lafayette was the slave to the French nobleman (and American friend) Marquis de Lafayette. • James Armistead Lafayette served as a spy for the Americans and pretended to be a friend of the British by feeding them false information about the American forces. James Armistead Lafayette was spy fed the British Army false information. Image Courtesy of http://www.americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/JAMES.HTM

28. Battle of Trenton • January 28, 1776 • General Washington, leader of the Continental Army crosses the frozen Delaware River in a surprise attack on Hessian mercenaries. George Washington crosses the Delaware River. Image Courtesy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Washington_Crossing_the_Delaware.png

29. Signing of the Declaration of Independence* • July 4, 1776 • Thomas Jefferson drafted a letter of complaints to the king. • The letter was signed by the Continental Congress. The signing of the Declaration of Independence. Image Courtesy of http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/trumbull.htm

30. Battle of Saratoga • October 17, 1777 • American forces defeat a sizeable British army at Saratoga, New York. • This battle finally convinced the French to support the patriots American general Gates accepts British general Burgoyne’s surrender. Image Courtesy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Surrender_burgoyne.jpg

31. Jack Jouett* The only known Image, a silhouette, made by Jack’s son, Matthew. Image Courtesy of http://www.history.org/ Foundation/journal/Summer06 /ride.cfm • In early 1781, Jack Jouett observed the British cavalry headed to Charlottesville to arrest the entire Virginian government • Secretly, Jack stole away and managed to warn the government in time to save them. Col. Tarleton, the man sent to capture Virginia’s government. Image Courtesy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image: General_Sir_Banastre_Tarleton_ by_Sir_Joshua_Reynolds.jpeg

32. Jack Jouett Saves Virginia • Re-enactment of Jack Jouett’s ride to Charlottesville • Image Courtesy of http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Summer06/images/ride_66_sm.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Summer06/ride.cfm&h=151&w=200&sz=10&hl=en&start=16&tbnid=SdMIvJ3b0SIOlM:&tbnh=79&tbnw=104&prev=/images%3Fq%3DJack%2BJouett%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official_s%26sa%3DG

33. Battle of Yorktown* • Oct. 19, 1781 • With the French aiding with their powerful Navy by sea, the American forces were able to decisively defeat the British forces under Gen. Cornwallis. General Washington accepts General Corwallis’s surrender. Image Courtesy of http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.britishbattles.com/images /yorktown/yorktown.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.britishbattles.com/battle-yorktown.htm&h=331&w=460&sz=38&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=6LBZaWL9tehlz M:&tbnh=92&tbnw=128&prev=/images%3Fq%3DYorktown%26svnum%3 D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla: en-US:official_s%26sa%3DN

34. French Naval Help

35. Siege At Yorktown