American Revolution

Agenda

1. Bell Ringer: Enlightenment Quotes with Mr. T. 2. Brief Lecture: American Revolution (with limited commercial

interruptions)3. Comparison Chart: English Civil War and American Revolution4. Enlightenment Thinkers and the US Constitution5. Cumulative Quiz6. Review Guide and Test Format: Absolutism and the

Enlightenment7. Objectives

HW: Work on Review Guide, Test is on October 31st, (its not scary)

Why a Revolution?

• Increased taxation from the French and Indian Conflict.

• More control from Britain.

• Major events:– Boston Massacre– Boston Tea Party

• Sons of Liberty

Minutemen

• Minutemen were farmers with ammunition and arms ready to fight a “defensive” war with Britain.

Lexington and Concord

• Paul Revere made his famous ride..

• William Dawes… the other one.

• April of 1775, Dawes and Revere ride out to warn of British troops coming from Boston.

• They make it to Lexington before they are arrested.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIPsYnUw7rI&list=PL3A31C28AB4727F75

Strategy• The British return to New

York in the summer of 1776.

• 32,000 soldiers enter Boston with General William Howe.

• “Surrender, or face a battle against my men.”

• Washington shows up, with 19,000 men.

• They rejected Howe’s offer.

Failed Strategy and Yorktown

• Divide the Colonies.• Yorktown• Lafayette, Washington,

Rochambeau, de Grasse, completely surround Cornwallis.

• He surrenders his 7,000 men as a band plays, “The world turned upside down”

The United States of America

• After a failed startup with the Articles of Confederation, we get it right with the Constitution and subsequent Bill of Rights.

• Utilized Enlightenment thinkers in both documents.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBVqj7Gnw9U