AMERICAN REVOLUTION

1. AMERICANREVOLUTION By:Caitlyn Cameron 7K

2. Introduction • The war happened 1775 – 1783. • It was the British vs. the Americans. • Resolution- We Americans were fighting so that we would no longer be a part of the British Empire. We were fighting for our Indepdence, our freedom.

3. Major causes • 1754- French and Indian War. • 1764- British impose new taxes. • 1768- British Troops Land in Boston. • 1770- Boston Massacre. • 1765- Quartering Act. • 1770- Townshend Act Repealed. • 1765- Stamp Tax Passed. • 1772- Cutter Gaspee Burned. • 1765- Sons of Liberty Formed. • 1773- Boston Tea Party. • 1765- Stamp Act Congress. • 1774- Coercive Acts Imposed. • 1766- Stamp Tax Repealed. • 1774- First Continental Congress Meets. • 1767- Townshend Acts Imposed. • 1767- Colonist Respond With Boycott.

4. Samuel Adams • He was born in 1722 and died in 1803. • He is john Adams older cousin. • Adam disliked the British government. It began in his childhood, when England ruled the colonies. • He was a major leader in the American Revolution. • Samuel Adams signed the Declaration of Independence. • Samuel Adams was a leading organizer of the independence movement in Massachusetts and the other American colonies

5. King George III • He was born in June 4, 1738 • He was the ruler of Great Britain from 1760-1820 • He inherited the throne at the age of twelve. • He was a true hero to all those in Great Britain. To everyone in the colonies, he was not a hero. • The Loyalists in the Revolutionary War loved him, The Patriots in the Revolutionary War hated him.

6. Battles • BATTLE OF LEXINGTON- The Battle of Lexington was made up of two battles. the other one was the battle of concord. British troops were sent to Concord to capture John Hancock and Samuel Adams, both men had been warned about the British attack. So when the British came in to take and attack them, Americans were ready to fight they were waiting to attack at Lexington. The Americans were withdrawing when someone fired a shot, and the British troops started to fire at the Minutemen. The British then charged with bayonets. Nobody knows who shot first. • BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL- The battle actually took place on Breed's Hill, but Bunker Hill was nearby. The Battle of Bunker Hill or Breed's Hill was one of the first major battles of the American Revolution. During this battle, there were 391 Continentals fighting and 1,054 British soldiers fighting. The British took the hill, but the Patriots showed for the second time that they could stand up to the British. • BATTLE OF FORT TICONDEROGA- On May 10, 1775, Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold led 83 Americans called the Green Mountain Boys through the morning fog. They easily took over the 45 man British garrison at Fort Ticonderoga, New York without a shot being fired. It was located at the southern tip of Lake Champlain.

7. BATTLE OF SARATOGA- The turning point of the war. It ended the British threat to New England. Boosted American's spirits at a time when Washington's army was suffering defeats in Pennsylvania. • BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND- The Battle of Long Island was an engagement of the American Revolution. The battle was waged on August 27, 1776 and ended on August 30, 1776. This was the first large-scaled battle of the war and had two commanding officers, George Washington and William Howe.The whole ideal of the war was a British campaign to seize New York City during the American Revolution. General George Washington had sent out one-third of his troops across the East River to Brooklyn Heights from the American headquarters on Manhattan Island • BATTLE OF YORKTOWN- The Battle of Yorktown was the battle that ended the Revolutionary War. It took place in 1777 in Yorktown, Virginia, where the British troops were camped out. The Americans and French were fighting against the British Redcoats, who were led by Lord Cornwallis. General Washington and his troops trapped the British with the help of French leaders. The British surrendered at Yorktown on October 17, 1781.  The agreement to end the Revolutionary War was called the Treaty of Paris which was signed in 1783. That treaty sealed the peace between Great Britain and the new country of the United States.

8. Life on the home front Most Americans did not actively participate in the Revolution. Therefore, no study of the war would be complete without an examination of the home front. During the war years, the Americans not involved in warfare were doing their best trying to survive. Farmers continued to grow food, artisans continued to practice their trades, and merchants attempted to maintain their businesses.

9. Final resolution The way the American revolution ended is that the Americans won!!!!! Americans got there own independent nation, the United States of America.

10. Effects of the American revolution The Revolutionary War had a major affect politically on the Colonists, mainly the women. Prior to the War they had no rights except to raise families, but they did gain little rights afterwards. Women gained the power to be able to divorce their husbands if they chose to, something they never could’ve done before.

11. Resources http://theamericanrevolution.org/peopledetail.aspx?people=23http://www.historycentral.com/revolt/causes.html http://theamericanrevolution.org/people.aspx http://www.harlingen.isd.tenet.edu/coakhist/amrev.html http://www.ushistory.org/us/11e.asp http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312848/kgeorge.htm