Chapter 4 Section 4Winning the War

Yorktown

October 19, 1781 Yorktown, VA

People line up to watch British surrender

Americans had won the war

European Allies Shift the Balance

Frederich Von Steuben - Prussian captain offered assistance to Washington

Marquis de Lafayette- French aristocrat who helped Americans, lobbied for more French support

Early British Success in the South

End of 1778- British took Savannah, Georgia, and by the spring of 1779, a royal governor once again commanded Georgia.

1780, General Henry Clinton, and Charles Cornwallis sailed south with 8,500 men.

captured Charles Town, South Carolina, in May 1780 and marched 5,500 American soldiers off as prisoners of war.

Won Camden, South Carolina

North Carolins- Americans cut British communication.

Redcoats retreat to south

British Losses in 1781Nathanael Greene (best general) harass Cornwallis in the south.

600 soldiers under the command of General Daniel Morgan to South Carolina.

Cornwallis sent Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton and his troops to stop Morgan's soldiers

January 1781 Cowpens, South Carolina - Continental Army fought back, and forced the redcoats to surrender.

Guilford Court House, North Carolina- Cornwallis attacks Greene & won the battle, but the victory cost him 1/4 of his troops

Cornwallis leads 7,500 troops to Yorktown

Victory at YorktownAmericans and the French closed in on Cornwallis.

French naval force defeated British fleet and blocked entrance to Chesapeake Bay.

17,000 troops surrounded British on Yorktown peninsula.

The siege of Yorktown lasted about three weeks.

On October 17, 1781, outnumbered two to one, Cornwallis finally raised the white flag of surrender.

On October 19, Washington, French generals, and their troops assembled to accept the British surrender.

Gen. Charles O’Hara handed over his sword, and the British troops put down their weapons

Seeking PeaceParis 1782- Great Britain, America, Spain, France all meet for peace

John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay demand that America be recognized as independent before anything else can happen

September 1783- Treaty of Paris - U.S. from Atlantic to Mississippi River, Canada to Florida

The Impact on American Society

Distinction between rich and poor blurs

Egalitarianism- belief that all are equal

Only white men

Women still couldn't divorce, and her property belonged to her husband

Africans still enslaved-- northerners want to outlaw slavery, but southerners want to keep it

Maryland and virginia- number of freed Africans goes from 4,000 to 20,000

Native Americans still don't know what's going to happen to them