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‘Murican Advantages in Revolution

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1 fighting in own land
2 widespread resistance
3 local government support
4 British underestimated them
5 France was allied with them
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British Advantages in Revolution

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1 well equipped
2 disciplined
3 powerful navy
4 Loyalist Americans
5 experienced officers
6 organized central government
7 canada/native support
8 access to money
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Loyalists Population

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1 dependent on British govt. for job
2 conservative
3 members of ethnic minorities
4 recent migrants

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Patriots to Loyalists

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1 deprived them of their rights
2 public torture
3 state treason acts

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Lexington and Concord

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  • 1st shots fired

- creation of Continental Army

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Bunker Hill

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  • showed that Americans won’t be easy to defeat

- point of no return from war

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Battle of Trenton

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  • moral booster for Americans

- snuck up on Hessians by Delaware River, lost almost none and won

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Battle of Saratoga

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  • 1777
  • 1st major British defeat
  • showed French that the war by Americans is worth fighting for
  • gained French support
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Treaty of Alliance of 1778 Terms

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1 French would provide actual arms and assistance and a NAVY
2 No separate peace could be signed without others’ consent
3 French get more Caribbean sugar islands, US recognizes French Caribbean conquest

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Valley Forge

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-NOT A BATTLE
- 1/6th of Army dies or deserts
-Baron Von Steuben- from Prussia, trained the Army to:
1 load a musket
2 fire your weapon
3 be able to stand, guts, discipline

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Battle of Yorktown

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  • French and Americans besieged the British
  • Cornwallis forced to surrender
  • ended the conflict, British want peace now
  • France wasn’t ready to stop war
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Financing the War

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1 state govts. borrowed from 
wealthy people and foreign bankers
2 states created new monetary system
3 Congress borrowed heavily from France and Holland
4 Congress printed lots of money
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Treaty of Paris

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-Franklin, Jay, Adams
Terms:
1 independence from British
2 boundaries set for US
3 America allowed in Grand Banks
4 no confiscation of torie property, and give the taken property back
5 Americans pay debts, for credit
6 British Army pull out of America
     -not done, because the      Americans didn't do 4
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Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union

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Powers lacked:

  • no ability to tax
  • inability to regulate trade w/ tariffs
  • needed all 13 states to ratify
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Problems in the West

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  • British still in forts in the Northwest Territory
  • violence breaking out between Indians and west weening colonists
  • Spain didn’t sign Treaty of Paris and closed all their ports
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Land Ordinances (LO)

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1784- population reached certain #, apply for statehood, 9 states made of the Northwest Territory
1785- grid system, 36mi townships, divided into 1mi plots, 16th square is for a school
Northwest Ordinance of 1787-
-Northwest Territory slave free
-South didn’t want slavery to expand, they would lose their economic advantage
-then they want to expand to have a 50/50 vote in Senate
-territory with over 5000 could apply for statehood- coequal states, permanent stability when moving Westward

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Central Government Powers

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  • conduct foreign affairs
  • finances
  • mediator between states
  • maintenance of armed forces
  • postal system
  • weights and measures
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Central Government NOT Powers

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  • not able to tax citizens directly

- inability to regulate trade

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Robert Morris

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-handled war finances, established Bank of North America after war

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“not worth a continental”

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expressed the extreme devaluing of the American currency because of the large amount of money printed to finance the war

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Roles of Women in the War

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  • seamstresses, wives, nurses, prostitutes, spies, cooks, launderers
  • bury the dead

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