This Week’s Agenda (11/4- 11/8)
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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