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Colonial Advantages & Disadvantages of Revolutionary War

Explore how the colonists triumphed in the Revolutionary War, analyzing advantages like leadership and foreign aid, and obstacles such as a small navy and being outnumbered. Learn about the Battle of Yorktown and the Treaty of Paris outcome.

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Colonial Advantages & Disadvantages of Revolutionary War

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  1. Advantages and Disadvantages of the Revolutionary War Welcome back from Thanksgiving Break!

  2. Advantages and Disadvantages • Essential Question: How did the colonists win the war? • Agenda: • Battle of Yorktown Review • Advantages v Disadvantages of the war • Closure: Move ‘round the room

  3. Warm Up • Have you ever gotten trapped somewhere?

  4. Battle of Yorktown • Patriots were close to losing the war • Washington decided to trap British at Yorktown, Virginia. • French soldiers helped Americans cut off the British escape from Yorktown • French Navy took control of Chesapeake Bay • Cornwallis (British General) surrendered after weeks of a siege (being surrounded by American Army)

  5. Notes Set Up • EQ: How did the Colonists win the war? • Topic: Advantages and Disadvantages of the Revolutionary War • Make a T-Chart that says ‘Colonial Advantages’ on one side and ‘Colonial Disadvantages/British Advantages’ on the other side

  6. Better Leadership Foreign Aid Home-field advantage Colonial Advantages

  7. Colonial Advantage • Motivation

  8. Untrained Small Navy Outnumbered Colonial Disadvantages

  9. Navy Well-Trained British Advantages

  10. British Disadvantages • DISTANCE

  11. Ben Franklin helped negotiate 1783: Britain recognized the independence of the United States Set the border of the U.S. at the Mississippi River Treaty of Paris: p. 139

  12. Boundaries of the United States established • West=Mississippi River • North=Canada • South=Spanish Florida

  13. Was the Treaty Followed? • NO • America did not repay war debts owed to British merchants or return Loyalist property seized during the war • England did not return captured slaves • English refused to leave bases in the Great Lakes (Detroit) Question=What is the stage set for?

  14. Exit Ticket • What do you think? • Who had the better chance to win the war…the Colonials or the British?

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