AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783

• Written by Thomas Jefferson, it outlines the reasons why the U.S. is separating from Great

Britain

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783

• The English enlightenment philosopher from whom Thomas Jefferson drew the ideas of “all men are created equal” and “men are entitled

to life, liberty, and property”

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783

• JOHN LOCKE

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783

• He is considered to be the American enlightenment thinker and was sent to Paris as

part of the negotiation team demanding Britain’s recognition of American

independence

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783

• BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783

• The turning point of the Revolution (Oct. 1777) when the French began to openly aid

the American rebels against the British

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783

• BATTLE OF SARATOGA

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783

• The hardest winter of Gen. Washington’s command was spent here (1777-78)

• Baron von Steuben (a Prussian) arrived to assist with the training of the troops into a

professional military unit

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783

• VALLEY FORGE, VA

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783

• On Christmas night, 1776, Washington crossed this River into Trenton, NJ, surprising the Hessian

soldiers who were surprised by the attack.

• Americans won a much-needed victory here at Trenton and a week later at Princeton, NJ to

boost their morale

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783

• DELAWARE RIVER

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783

• Leader of the Continental Army for the U.S.• Men willing to follow him because of his

leadership skills and strong character (not because he was a military tactitian)

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783

• GEORGE WASHINGTON

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783

• He arrived from France and assisted George Washington at Valley Forge. He lobbied for

French reinforcements in France in 1779

• He was also at Yorktown when Cornwallis was defeated

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783

• MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783

• He was the British general who surrendered at Yorktown in October 1781 giving the victory to

the Americans

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783

• GENERAL CORNWALLIS

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783

• This battle ended the American Revolution and resulted in a British surrender when Cornwallis’s men were bottled up on a

peninsula in Virginia from troops by land and the French by sea

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783

• BATTLE OF YORKTOWN

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783

• The terms of this treaty in 1783 set the boundaries of the new nation from the

Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River and from Canada to Florida

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS – 1776-1783

• TREATY OF PARIS OF 1783