AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783
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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
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AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
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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”
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AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783
• JOHN LOCKE
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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
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AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783
• BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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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
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AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783
• BATTLE OF SARATOGA
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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
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AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783
• VALLEY FORGE, VA
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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
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AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783
• DELAWARE RIVER
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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)
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AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783
• GEORGE WASHINGTON
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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
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AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783
• MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
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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
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AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783
• GENERAL CORNWALLIS
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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
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AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783
• BATTLE OF YORKTOWN
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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
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AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783
• TREATY OF PARIS OF 1783