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Red Coats/Tories - British Soldiers
Lord Cornwallis - General (South)
Lord Howe - General (North)
- Americans begin using guerrilla warfare, spies, and "ungentlemanly" tactics
- Many borrowed from Native Americans
- Ex: Battle of Saratoga
Continentals - American Soldiers
George Washington - General
Horacio Gates - General
- Lined up in a field and shot each other
- Americans were mostly losing
- Ex: Battle of New York, Battle of Camden
- US in survival mode
- Begins changing tactics
- More guerrilla but still a lot of battle lines
- Ex: Battle of Trenton
- 1775-1783
- Began in 1775 (Battle of Lexington & Concord)
- Shot heard round the world
- America v. Britain (England)
- Causes: Taxes & American identity
Benedict Arnold - Betrayed Americans for British
Answer the following question in your notebook:
With what we know about how women, Native Americans, and black people were treated in this time, does the Declaration of Independence lack legitimacy? Be prepared to debate.
Black people fought on both sides (earn freedom?)
Native Americans tended to fight for British (Proclamation of 1763)
Women played support roles (Nurses, Cooks, Suppliers)
Patriot/Continental: Salem Poor - Soldier
Phillis Wheatley - Poet
Loyalist/Red Coat: Colonel Tye - Soldier
- Phillis Wheatley: Poet
- Molly Pitcher: Soldier
- Wives & daughters were nurses, suppliers, tailors, and cooks
- Cherokee & Creek (South) supported British
- Iroquois (North) supported British
- America won
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- US got its independence
- Britain and US agreed to get along
- Loyalists could not be prosecuted
- Borders still unresolved
- Continental Army camped in Valley Forge for the winter
- Freezing
- Small pox
- US losing
- Washington held them together
- Tough fight in Charlotte
- Cornwallis called it "a hornet's nest of resistance"
- Abandoned the city
Table of Contents
Page: Revolutionary War
Objectives
- I can analyze the impact of the Revolutionary War
Materials
- Notebook
- Pen/Pencil