EVENTS, DATES, AND EXPLAIN

• What the event was
• Why was it important

COMMON SENSE

• This was published in 1776.
• An essay by Thomas Paine.
• This urged the colonies to declare independence.
• Many colonists were still reluctant to cut their tie with Britain.
• Paine told these colonists that it was time to make the break.

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

• A 1776 document.
• Stating that 13 English colonies were a free and independent nation.
• The main parts are natural rights, British wrongs, and independence.
• Natural rights- rights that belong to all people from birth.

BECOME ALLIES

• Nation that worked for another nation for a common purpose.
• February, 1778.
• The British agreed to provide military aid.
• France, Netherlands, and Spain provided loans to the United States.

WINTER AT VALLEY FORGE

• Pennsylvania, 1777-1778, during the winter.
• Washington's Continental army.
• Soldiers shivered in damp, drafty huts, many slept on the ground.
• Some soldiers stood guard wrapped in blankets, others had no shoes.
• Soldiers suffered from frostbite and disease.

BENEDICT ARNOLD TURNS TRAITOR

• Arnold captured and burned the capital city.
• September, 1780.
• Arnold secretly agreed to turn over West Point to the British.
• Washington ordered Arnold to be hanged, but he was not captured.

TREATY OF PARIS

• A 1763 agreement between British and France.
• This ended the French and India war, marked the end of French power.
• Peace treaty between the United States and Britain, ratified in 1783.
• Recognized the United States as an independent nation.

MAJOR BATTLES

• Battle
• Date(month/year)
• Who won
• Leaders from each side
• Significance

BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL

• On June 16, 1775, first major battle of the Revolution.
• Colonel William Prescott led the Americans.
• William Howe Led the British.
• The British won, they took Bunker Hill and Breeds Hill.
• It proved the Americans could fight bravely, also the British would not be easy to defeat.

BATTLE OF TRENTON

• On January 2, 1777, battle in New Jersey.
• George Washington led the Americans.
• The Continental army won with George Washington.
• General Charles Cornwallis led the Hessians.

BATTLE OF PRINCETON

• January 2, 1777.
• The victories gave the Americans new hope.
• Washington moved to Morristown, where the army would spend the winter.

BATTLE OF SARATOGA

• October 17,1777,the first major American victory in the revolution.
• The Americans won this battle.
• Burgoyne led the redcoats.
• France became an Allie of the United States.

KINGS MOUNTAIN CAPTURED

• October 7, 1780.
• Thomas Young set out with other Patriots to capture Kings Mountain.
• Kings Mountain won.
• The Americans victory showed that Britain's new strategy might not work.

BATTLE OF YORKTOWN

• In 1781, final battle in the revolution.
• Lafayette led the Americans.
• Cornwallis led the British loyalist.
• Washington trapped Cornwallis on the Yorktown peninsula.
• The Americans won.

OTHER BATTLES

• Battle
• Date(month/year)
• Who won

BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND

• A battle in New York.
• In august, 1776.
• Howe won the the battle by capturing Nathan hale.

BRANDYWINE & GERMANTOWN

• July, 1777.
• Howe defeating the Americans at the battle.

FORT STANWIX

• July, 177.
• British armies marched from Canada toward Albany.
• St. Leger tried to take Fort Stanwix.
• A strong American army, led by Benedict Arnold, drove him back.

BATTLE OF BENNINGTON

• July, 1777.
• Benedict Arnold led a strong American army.
• Arnold won by driving Burgoyne back.
• Burgoyne wanted three British Armies to march on Albany.

VINCENNES

• February 1779.
• The British won.
• George Rogers Clark led Virginia frontier fighters.

BATTLE OF COWPENS

• January 1781.
• The Americans won this battle.
• Greene and Morgan combined their armies.

GUILFORD COURTHOUSE

• The battle was one of the bloodiest of the war.
• January, 1781.
• The Americans retreated, the British sustained great losses.

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