LONG TERM CAUSES

SHORT TERM CAUSES

REVOLUTION

French and Indian War

Lexington and Concord

(and other early Battles)

COLONISTS USED
SURPRISE ATTACK

Proclamation of 1763

Taxes/Acts
(Intolerable Acts)
Enlightenment Beliefs:
Social Contract Theory

Rejection of the Olive Branch Petition

Thomas Paines Common Sense

Trenton: Surprise Hessians

Princeton: Surprise attack by
leaving campfires glowing

British: Redcoats or
Lobsterbacks

Declaration of Independence

Valley Forge: of
Washingtons troops die,
Vonstuben trains troops.
Foreign Aid of France
and Spain ; Saratoga
Cornwallis: Leader of
British Troops. Sweeps
through the south until
he is surrounded and
forced to surrender at
Yorktown

EFFECTS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR

Treaty of Paris of 1783:

British recognition of U.S. as independent
U.S. boundaries west to Mississippi and South to Florida
Enlightenment Beliefs:
Social Contract Theory = New Self Government not just in America but
other countries

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George Washington:
Leader of the Patriot
Army