“Times that Try Men’s Souls”: the Revolutionary War (1775 – 1783)

“Times that Try Men’s Souls”: the Revolutionary War (1775 – 1783) • Outline: • Search for Leadership • Ideological Motives • War in the Middle • Those Who Fought • The South and Finale • Summary “Big” Question: How democratic (“people rule”) was the establishment of the new nation economically, socially, politically from 1775–1840’s?

“Times that Try Men’s Souls”: the Revolutionary War (1775 – 1783) 8 Questions “Yankee Doodle” was actually a song with a purpose. “Big” Question: How democratic (“people rule”) was the establishment of the new nation economically, socially, politically from 1775–1840’s?

Outline: 1. Search for Leadership “Times that Try Men’s Souls”: the Revolutionary War (1775 – 1783) “Big” Question: How democratic (“people rule”) was the establishment of the new nation economically, socially, politically from 1775–1840’s?

“Times that Try Men’s Souls”: the Revolutionary War (1775 – 1783) Outline: 1. Search for Leadership “Big” Question: How democratic (“people rule”) was the establishment of the new nation economically, socially, politically from 1775–1840’s?

“Times that Try Men’s Souls”: the Revolutionary War (1775 – 1783) 8 Questions “Yankee Doodle” was actually a song with a purpose

8 Questions • “Yankee Doodle” was actually a song with a purpose • Fath'r and I went down to camp, • Along with Cap'n Goodin', • And there we saw the men and boys • As thick as hasty puddin'. • Yankee Doodle keep it up, • Yankee Doodle dandy, • Mind the music and the step • And with the girls be handy. • And there we saw a thousand men • As rich as Squire David, • And what they wasted every day, • I wish it could be saved. • Yankee Doodle, keep it up, etc. “Times that Try Men’s Souls”: the Revolutionary War (1775 – 1783)

“Times that Try Men’s Souls”: the Revolutionary War (1775 – 1783) Outline: 3. Ideological Motives In no instance hath nature made the satellite larger than its primary planet, and as England and America, with respect to each Other, reverses the common order of nature, it is evident they belong to different systems: England to Europe, America to itself. - Thomas Paine, Common Sense “Big” Question: How democratic (“people rule”) was the establishment of the new nation economically, socially, politically from 1775–1840’s?

Outline: 3. Ideological Motives “Times that Try Men’s Souls”: the Revolutionary War (1775 – 1783) The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth. 'Tis not the affair of a city, a country, a province, or a kingdom, but of a continent of at least one eighth part of the habitable globe. 'Tis not the concern of a day, a year, or an age; posterity virtually involved in the contest, and will be more or less affected, even to the end of time, by the proceedings now. Now is the seed time of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; The wound will enlarge with the tree, and posterity read it in full grown characters. - Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“Times that Try Men’s Souls”: the Revolutionary War (1775 – 1783) Outline: 3. Ideological Motives These United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states. -Richard Henry Lee We must now hang together or surely we will all hang separately. - Benjamin Franklin on the signing of the Declaration of Independence “Big” Question: How democratic (“people rule”) was the establishment of the new nation economically, socially, politically from 1775–1840’s?

“Times that Try Men’s Souls”: the Revolutionary War (1775 – 1783) When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another . . . a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government . . . as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. - the Declaration of Independence

“Times that Try Men’s Souls”: the Revolutionary War (1775 – 1783) • Outline: • Opening Shots • Search for Leadership • Ideological Motives • War in the Middle • Those Who Fought • The South and Finale • Summary “Big” Question: How democratic (“people rule”) was the establishment of the new nation economically, socially, politically from 1775–1840’s?

“Times that Try Men’s Souls”: the Revolutionary War (1775 – 1783) Outline: 4. War in the Middle “Big” Question: How democratic (“people rule”) was the establishment of the new nation economically, socially, politically from 1775–1840’s?

“Times that Try Men’s Souls”: the Revolutionary War (1775 – 1783) Outline: 4. War in the Middle

“Times that Try Men’s Souls”: the Revolutionary War (1775 – 1783) Outline: 4. War in the Middle “Big” Question: How democratic (“people rule”) was the establishment of the new nation economically, socially, politically from 1775–1840’s?

“Times that Try Men’s Souls”: the Revolutionary War (1775 – 1783) Outline: 5. Those Who Fought “Big” Question: How democratic (“people rule”) was the establishment of the new nation economically, socially, politically from 1775–1840’s?

“Times that Try Men’s Souls”: the Revolutionary War (1775 – 1783) Outline: 5. Those Who Fought I took my stand just back of the American tents . . .and busied myself washing, mending and cooking for the soldiers in which I was assisted by other women . . . I cooked and carried beef, bread, and coffee to the soldiers . . . I met General Washington, who asked me if I ‘was not afraid of the cannonballs?’ I replied, ‘it . . . would not do for the men to fight and starve too.’ - Sarah Osborn, serving at Yorktown “Big” Question: How democratic (“people rule”) was the establishment of the new nation economically, socially, politically from 1775–1840’s?

“Times that Try Men’s Souls”: the Revolutionary War (1775 – 1783) Outline: 5. Those Who Fought “Big” Question: How democratic (“people rule”) was the establishment of the new nation economically, socially, politically from 1775–1840’s?

“Times that Try Men’s Souls”: the Revolutionary War (1775 – 1783) Outline 6. The South and Finale “Big” Question: How democratic (“people rule”) was the establishment of the new nation economically, socially, politically from 1775–1840’s?

“Times that Try Men’s Souls”: the Revolutionary War (1775 – 1783) Outline 6. The South and Finale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gudxXs85R_w

“Times that Try Men’s Souls”: the Revolutionary War (1775 – 1783) Outline 6. The South and Finale “Big” Question: How democratic (“people rule”) was the establishment of the new nation economically, socially, politically from 1775–1840’s?

“Times that Try Men’s Souls”: the Revolutionary War (1775 – 1783) Outline 6. The South and Finale Yankee Doodle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_BMzqwSdW8 :30- 1:28 Hamilton World Turned Upside Down (traditional) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gudxXs85R_w Hamilton with lyrics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvX7d5aNRxg Hamilton Yorktown performance no lyrics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWZy3zRbBHI 0:53 – 5:00 “Big” Question: How democratic (“people rule”) was the establishment of the new nation economically, socially, politically from 1775–1840’s?

“Times that Try Men’s Souls”: the Revolutionary War (1775 – 1783)