1775-83
Underlying
causes
Q-Bone Diagram
Immediate
causes
Event
Short-term causes
Long-term causes
Immediate
effects
Long-term
effects
Road to War: Beginnings (4.1-4.2)
Actions:
1)
2)
3)
Goal:
1st Continental
Congress meets
in 1774
Actions:
Actions:
Actions:
Actions:
Actions:
Goal:
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Goal:
Goal:
Paul Revere’s ride
(April 18, 1775)
Redcoats fired
on at Lexington
& Concord
April 19, 1775
Battles of Bunker
Declaration of
2nd
Hill & Dorchester
Independence is
Continental
Heights, June,
signed, July, 1776
Congress 1775 – Mar.,1776
meets
Thomas
in 1775
Paine’s
Common
Sense is
published
(Jan.,1776)
Analyze the Declaration of Rights (1774) and compare
to the Declaration of Independence (1776)
Declaration of Rights (1774) Declaration of Indep. (1776)
What number of
Revolutionary Battles
occurred in each Colony?
(see Wikipedia)
*How many battles
occurred before they
declared independence?
*In which colonies did most
of the battles occur? Why?
Road to War: Beginnings (4.1-4.2)
Actions:
1) Boycott
2) prepare for war
3) send Declar. Of
Rights to King
Goal: Ask king to
fix problems
1st Continental
Congress meets
in 1774
Actions:
Ride to Lex. &
Concord to warn
them of British
troops
Goal: Prevent
British from taking
weapons
Paul Revere’s ride
(April 18, 1775)
Actions:
Shooting bet.
Colonials and
British
Goal: Prevent
British from
getting guns &
powder
Redcoats fired
on at Lexington
& Concord
April 19, 1775
Actions:
set up Continental
Army; asked for
new constitutions
Goal: Avoid war
but be prepared
Actions:
Fought off
British
Goal: Keep
British in
Boston or make
them leave
Actions:
Declared 13 colonies
independent
Goal: Full scale
revolt; gave reasons
why they fight for
independence
Battles of Bunker
Declaration of
2nd
Hill & Dorchester
Independence is
Continental
Heights, June,
signed, July, 1776
Congress 1775 – Mar.,1776
meets
Thomas
in 1775
Paine’s
Common
Sense is
published
(Jan.,1776)
Label the Map with
these numbers
1 1st “shot” of the war
Use text ch.4:2-4
(1775)
2 1st major battle of
the war; Patriots lose
but show they can hurt
the British (1775-76)
3 Patriots lose a major
city for the rest of the
war (1776)
4 Surprise “Christmas”
victory (crossing the
Delaware River) (1777)
5 Turning point of the
war; brings French help
(1777)
6 Final battle; British
surrender (1781)
Battles of Lexington and
Concord (April, 1775)
Battle of Bunker Hill (June, 1775)
Washington Crossing the Delaware River:
Christmas Surprise for Hessian and British soldiers (1777)
Winter at Valley Forge (1777)
Battle of Saratoga (1777)
Battle of Yorktown (1781)
British trapped!
Surrender!
5
3
Label the Map with
these numbers
1 1st “shot” of the war
1
2
6
4
Use text ch.4:2-4
(1775)
2 1st major battle of
the war; Patriots lose
but show they can hurt
the British (1775-76)
3 Patriots lose a major
city for the rest of the
war (1776)
4 Surprise “Christmas”
victory (crossing the
Delaware River) (1777)
5 Turning point of the
war; brings French help
(1777)
6 Final battle; British
surrender (1781)
5
3
Label the Map with
these numbers
1 1st “shot” of the war
1
2
6
4
Use text ch.4:2-4
(1775)
2 1st major battle of
the war; Patriots lose
but show they can hurt
the British (1775-76)
3 Patriots lose a major
city for the rest of the
war (1776)
4 Surprise “Christmas”
victory (crossing the
Delaware River) (1777)
5 Turning point of the
war; brings French help
(1777)
6 Final battle; British
surrender (1781)
BELL: Study the Maps from 1775 and 1790
Answer the following questions:
1. Which of the original 13 colonies gained the most land after the Revolution?
2. What new territories were created?
3. Which were the first three colonies to ratify the new Constitution?
4. Which of the original 13 colonies was the last to be admitted into the Union?
(The date they ratified the new Constitution)
5. Which European power increased its land from 1775 to 1790?
Which land did they get back?
6. Which of the original 13 colonies did not increase their size? Why?
7. What new state will be formed in New England?
8.
Underlying
causes
British
taxation
policies
Colonists felt
their rights
were violated
Colonists
were denied
western lands
Militarization
of the
colonies
Q-Bone Diagram
Immediate
causes
Lexington &
Concord
Battles (4/75)
Event
Battles for
Control of
Boston (6/75)
Thomas Paine’s
Common Sense
is published
(1/76)
Signing of the
Declaration of
Colonial
propaganda & Independence
(7/76)
protests
Long-term causes Short-term causes
Immediate
effects
Long-term
effects
Inspired other
revolutions
around the world
13 Colonies
win their
Independence
13 Colonies had
large debts to
pay from the war
A new nation
is created:
USA
France becomes
a US ally
British cede
western lands
to the former
colonies
Greater social
equality among
men in the US,
more free blacks