AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783

1. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 • Written by Thomas Jefferson, it outlines the reasons why the U.S. is separating from Great Britain

2. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

3. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 • The English enlightenment philosopher from whom Thomas Jefferson drew the ideas of “all men are created equal” and “men are entitled to life, liberty, and property”

4. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 • JOHN LOCKE

5. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 • He is considered to be the American enlightenment thinker and was sent to Paris as part of the negotiation team demanding Britain’s recognition of American independence

6. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 • BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

7. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 • The turning point of the Revolution (Oct. 1777) when the French began to openly aid the American rebels against the British

8. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 • BATTLE OF SARATOGA

9. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 • The hardest winter of Gen. Washington’s command was spent here (1777-78) • Baron von Steuben (a Prussian) arrived to assist with the training of the troops into a professional military unit

10. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 • VALLEY FORGE, VA

11. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 • On Christmas night, 1776, Washington crossed this River into Trenton, NJ, surprising the Hessian soldiers who were surprised by the attack. • Americans won a much-needed victory here at Trenton and a week later at Princeton, NJ to boost their morale

12. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 • DELAWARE RIVER

13. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 • Leader of the Continental Army for the U.S. • Men willing to follow him because of his leadership skills and strong character (not because he was a military tactitian)

14. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 • GEORGE WASHINGTON

15. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 • He arrived from France and assisted George Washington at Valley Forge. He lobbied for French reinforcements in France in 1779 • He was also at Yorktown when Cornwallis was defeated

16. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 • MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

17. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 • He was the British general who surrendered at Yorktown in October 1781 giving the victory to the Americans

18. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 • GENERAL CORNWALLIS

19. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 • This battle ended the American Revolution and resulted in a British surrender when Cornwallis’s men were bottled up on a peninsula in Virginia from troops by land and the French by sea

20. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 • BATTLE OF YORKTOWN

21. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 • The terms of this treaty in 1783 set the boundaries of the new nation from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River and from Canada to Florida

22. AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783 • TREATY OF PARIS OF 1783