Advantages and Disadvantages of the Revolutionary War

1. Advantages and Disadvantages of the Revolutionary War Welcome back from Thanksgiving Break!

2. Advantages and Disadvantages • Essential Question: How did the colonists win the war? • Agenda: • Battle of Yorktown Review • Advantages v Disadvantages of the war • Closure: Move ‘round the room

3. Warm Up • Have you ever gotten trapped somewhere?

4. Battle of Yorktown • Patriots were close to losing the war • Washington decided to trap British at Yorktown, Virginia. • French soldiers helped Americans cut off the British escape from Yorktown • French Navy took control of Chesapeake Bay • Cornwallis (British General) surrendered after weeks of a siege (being surrounded by American Army)

5. Notes Set Up • EQ: How did the Colonists win the war? • Topic: Advantages and Disadvantages of the Revolutionary War • Make a T-Chart that says ‘Colonial Advantages’ on one side and ‘Colonial Disadvantages/British Advantages’ on the other side

6. Better Leadership Foreign Aid Home-field advantage Colonial Advantages

7. Colonial Advantage • Motivation

8. Untrained Small Navy Outnumbered Colonial Disadvantages

9. Navy Well-Trained British Advantages

10. British Disadvantages • DISTANCE

11. Ben Franklin helped negotiate 1783: Britain recognized the independence of the United States Set the border of the U.S. at the Mississippi River Treaty of Paris: p. 139

12. Boundaries of the United States established • West=Mississippi River • North=Canada • South=Spanish Florida

13. Was the Treaty Followed? • NO • America did not repay war debts owed to British merchants or return Loyalist property seized during the war • England did not return captured slaves • English refused to leave bases in the Great Lakes (Detroit) Question=What is the stage set for?

14. Exit Ticket • What do you think? • Who had the better chance to win the war…the Colonials or the British?