KUDos:

Know:
American Revolution Campaigns

Understand:
8.25 Identify and explain the significance of the major
battles, leaders, and events of the American Revolution

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Begin American Revolution Battles

Checkpoint 10.11
1. Name the four parts of the DOI.

2. Define Grievance

Checkpoint 10.11
3. What is the main reason the DOI was
created?
4. Who mainly wrote the DOI?

MIC DROP

Checkpoint 10.11
1. Name the four parts of the DOI.
Preamble, Human Rights, Grievances,
Declaration
2. Define Grievance
A complaint or list of complaints

Checkpoint 10.11
3. What is the main reason the DOI was
created?
The colonists were tired of Britain taking
advantage of their power by taxing them
and taking away their freedoms.
4. Who mainly wrote the DOI?

T. Jefferson

KUDos:
Know:
American Revolution Campaigns

Understand:

8.25 Identify and explain the significance of the major battles,

leaders, and events of the American Revolution including: Battles
of Lexington and Concord Capture of Fort Ticonderoga Battle of
Bunker Hill (Breed's Hill) Battle of Trenton and Princeton Battle of
Saratoga Valley Forge Battle of Kings Mountain Battle of
Yorktown George Washington Benedict Arnold Hessians
Marquis de La Fayette Friedrich von Steuben George Rogers
Clark Francis Marion
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Today

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Fast Facts
Where did the fighting begin? (city, colony)
How did the colonists know something was
happening?
Who won?
Where did the British move to?
Who won?
How?
Where did the British go then?

Draw a fort
You have five minutes to draw what
you think a GOOD fort looked like in
the 1700s.
Make sure you have buildings and a
barrier
Tell me what the buildings are.

Fort Ticonderoga
Lets read the three accounts of Fort
Ticonderoga
3 things all three letters agree on
How are the letters of Arnold and Allen
different? Why?
Whos account of what happened do
you think is most accurate? Why?

Bunker H ill
Why would an army want to be situated on
top of a hill?
2,400 British troops against 1,500
Americans.
June 17, 1775
Americans learned British were headed to
the hills
Americans secretly moved their troops onto
Bunker and Breeds Hill, outside of Boston in
Charlestown, Massachusetts.
Dont shoot until you see the whites of their
eyes!

Bunker H ill
British attacked.
The Americans fought back the first
two charges, but started to run out of
ammunition and had to retreat at the
third charge.
The British gained the hill, but their
costs were great.
Costs?

226 British were killed and 800

wounded (Americans about 400
casualties)

Draw a fort
What types of things did you include
in your fort?
Who had an armory?
Who fortified using cannons?
The person with the most cannons is
the most accurate.

Siege of Boston
A. Washington appointed Commanding General of the Continental Army
(Colonial militia surrounding Boston) by the second continental
congress. The Colonials needed cannons. There were 59 cannons in Ft.
Ticonderoga.
B. Henry Knox went to Ft. Ticonderoga and in the middle of winter. He
created giant sleds to drag the cannons back to Boston. Yes, they fell off
the sleds many times and one even sank in a river, but all the cannons
were delivered to General Washington.
C. In only two months, (a very very short time back in 1775) the 59
cannons arrived at Boston.
D. General Washington placed the cannons on the hills around Boston
(He also had his soldiers paint another 30 or so tree trunks black so that
they looked like many more cannons.)

How is
Washingtons
army feeling?

T. Paine
But the injuries and disadvantages which we sustain by that
connection are without number; and our duty to mankind at large, as
well as to ourselves, instructs us to renounce the alliance, because
any submission to or dependence on Great Britain tends directly to
involve this continent in European wars and quarrels, and sets us at
variance with nations who would otherwise seek our friendship, and
against whom we have neither anger nor complaint. As Europe is our
market for trade, we ought to form no partial connection with any part
of it. It is the true interest of America to steer clear of European
contentions which she never can do, while, by her dependence on
Britain, she is made the makeweight in the scale of British politics
As to government matters, it is not in the power of Britain to do this

T. Paine
Writer (pamphlets)
Wrote Common Sense in January 1776what did his
pamphlet influence?
The DOI!!!!!!
What was he trying to do in his writing?
Convince colonists that independence from Britain was the
way to go.
Why do you think the colonists loved it so much?
Written in common language and loaded language
Why could colonists understand it? What did his writing
sound like?

If T Paine wrote it...

T. Jefferson

T. Paine

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all

men are created equal, that they are endowed
by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty and the
pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these
rights, Governments are instituted among Men,
deriving their just powers from the consent of
the governed, That whenever any Form of
Government becomes destructive of these ends,
it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish
it, and to institute new Government, laying its
foundation on such principles and organizing its
powers in such form, as to them shall seem most
likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

NO man can deny, without abandoning his Godgiven ability to reason, that all men enter into
existence as equals. No matter how lowly or
majestic their origins, they enter life with three
God-given RIGHTS the right to live, to right to
live free, and the right to live happily (or, at the
least, to pursue Happiness on earth). Who
would choose existence on any other terms? So
treasured are these rights that man created
government to protect them. So treasured are
they that man is duty-bound to destroy any
government that crushes them and start
anew as men worthy of the title of FREE MEN.
This is the plain truth, impossible to refute.

Why did the Americans win at the battles of

Trenton and Princeton?
Washington and the Americans
were reeling from a string of early
defeats (NY and Canada) and he
needed to regain some momentum
they had gained in Ticonderoga
and Boston
On Dec 25, 1776, Washington led
surprise attacks across the
Delaware River to Trenton, where
the Americans captured hundreds
of Hessian mercenaries. Later
(January) he defeated a small
British force at Princeton

Why did the Americans win at the battles of

Trenton and Princeton?
They helped regain the
momentum for the
Continental Army after
suffering a string of early
defeats
Helped to maintain the
faith of the American
colonists
and
gained more recruits
and supplies for the
army

What role did Thomas Paines The Crisis play in

this turn of events?
While witnessing the retreat of the
Continental Army from New York thru New
Jersey into Pennsylvania, Paine wrote
another influential pamphlet entitled The
Crisis
In it, Paine attempted to remind the colonists
that the cause was not going to be easily won
and that faith should remain high, These are
the time that try men's souls
Washington thought is so motivational and
inspiring that he had it read to the troops just
prior to the Trenton attack

What circumstances led to the

American victory at Saratoga?
The British plan required
coordinated attacks but Gen
Howe stayed in Philadelphia
and St Leger was defeated
Gen Burgoyne's forces were
slowed by American obstacles
and harassing fire
American army led by Gen
Gates defeated and captured
Burgoynes army October 17,
1777

What impact did the American victory at

Saratoga have on the American Revolution?
Convinced the French that
the American could win the
war and they formed an
alliance sending men,
money, and their navy
Marquis de La Fayette. 19
year old French volunteer
who supported the ideas of
the revolution. He served
without pay under
Washington

What is the importance of the encampment of

the Continental Army at Valley Forge?
After the British take Philadelphia in late 1777,
Washington's Army takes shelter for the winter 22
miles away at Valley Forge and suffers much
during the hard winter of 1777- 78.
Terrible weather, poor living conditions, disease,
and limited food and supplies were a constant
threat
Morale was critically low and desertion was a real
problem
Frederich Baron von Steuben (Prussian Colonel)
was brought in by Washington to drill discipline
into the Continental Army

What is the importance of the encampment of

the Continental Army at Valley Forge?
After hearing of the terrible conditions
the Continental Army was facing at Valley
Forge, Americans from throughout the
colonies sent blankets, food, and supplies
and Congress acted to increase
enlistment bonuses, uniforms, and
equipment
The Continental Army would emerge
from Valley Forge a much more
disciplined fighting force and Washington
would emerge with a new strategy--- He
doesnt have to win the war, he just needs
to not lose the war