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Time Table leading up to the Revolutionary War. Tea Act Boston Tea Party BTP Intolerable Acts IA 1 st Continental Congress 1 st CC boycott British goods, prepare local militias, Declaration of Rights D of R Lexington/Concord – shot heard ‘round the world
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Time Table leading up to the Revolutionary War • Tea Act Boston Tea Party • BTP Intolerable Acts • IA 1st Continental Congress • 1st CC boycott British goods, prepare local militias, Declaration of Rights • D of R Lexington/Concord – shot heard ‘round the world • SHRW 2nd Continental Congress
Time Table leading up to the Revolutionary War • 2nd CC Continental Army (GW), new state constitutions, Olive Branch Petition • OBP War and Peace • W & P Bunker Hill and Dorchester Heights (Boston back in control of colonists, birthplace of rebellion)
American Revolutionary War American War of Independence 1775–1783
Who? Great Britain Colonists (13 colonies) And… Redcoats And … Loyalists/Tories And … mercenaries And … Continental Army And … Patriots And… Revolutionaries/Rebels
Why? Right to “life, liberty, and property!” Declaration of Rights Inalienable rights of any person…life, liberty, property King George III Government should protect, not abuse these rights. We will not forfeit them, only fight for a government that is not tyrannical! Patrick Henry
Where? New EnglandColonies Middle Colonies Southern Colonies Western Frontier Sea
Hudson River Turning Point? British defeat at Saratoga (1777) Saratoga, NY International Support aids the continental Army
Outcome? VICTORY! Through almost every possible suffering and discouragement for the space of eight long years, was little short of a standing miracle. • 10,000 British deaths • 7,500 Hessians died • 25,600 American deaths • 10,000 died in camp • 8,500 died in British prisons • 7,200 died in battle The United States was independent Boundaries: Mississippi River on the west, Canada on the north, Spanish Florida on the south US right to fish off Canada’s Atlantic coast Each side would repay its debts to the other The British would return any enslaved persons Congress would recommend that states return any property they had seized from Loyalists Treaty of Paris of 1783