This Week’s Agenda (11/4- 11/8)Monday - Unit 1-3 Bonus

Round

Tuesday- Review

Important Battles/ Events of the Revolution

Wednesday- The Articles of

the Confederation: a bad first constitution!

Thursday- Remember the

Ladies!- Review for Unit 3

test

Friday- Unit 3 Test

This Week’s Pre-AP Agenda (11/4- 11/8)Monday - Unit 1-3 Bonus

Round

Tuesday- Review

Important Battles/ Events of the Revolution

- Begin: The Articles of the Confederation: a bad first constitution!

Wednesday- Continue w/ Articles…

Thursday- Remember the

Ladies!- Review Unit 3

Test material

Friday- Unit 3 Test

Revolutionary War Review

Lexington and Concord

Paul Revere’s ride

guerilla warfare

“shot heard round the world”

Bunker Hill (really at Breed’s Hill)“don’t shoot ‘til you see the whites of their eyes!”

Secures Boston for the British

Thomas Paine’s The American Crisis

main idea was to

encourage patriots

to keep fighting

“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of men and women.”

December 26, 1776Early morning raid on Hessian troops (German mercenaries- paid soldiers) camped at what becomes: The Battle of Trenton

Most of the men (British allies) were taken as prisoners of war

Battle of Princeton – Jan 2, 1777

General Cornwallis plans to attack Washington’s camp, but-

the Patriots left their campfires burning and then surrounded and defeated the British army

After raiding supplies for the winter- Washington retreats

"Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when

nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the

country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to

repulse it."–The Crisis 

by Thomas Paine

"We have this day no less than 2,873 men in camp, unfit for duty because they are barefooted and otherwise naked."

-George WashingtonVALLEY FORGE -- December 23, 1777

“Theatres of War”

North

South

West

Water

War on the Frontier

Pioneers in modern-day states of Indiana and Ohio began to fight British soldiers.

George Rogers Clark led these men on attacks of British forts.

Replica of Fort Randolph

War at SeaThe U.S. had a very small Navy

Privateers – A privately owned ship that has permission to fight for the government.

“I have not yet begun to fight!”- John Paul Jones

- in the battle of the Bonhomme Richard vs. the HMS Serapis.

Guerrilla WarfareQuick attacks and retreat:

Learned from fighting the Native AmericansSurprise attacks on the British.

Francis Marion – “The Swamp Fox”

Victory at YorktownWashington surrounded General Cornwallis with Continental and French soldiers.

French Navy blocked the British escape by sea.

Cornwallis surrendered October 19, 1781