American Revolution

American Revolution

1. British

   • Generals
     • St. Leger
       • Stopped by Arnold at Fort Stanwix
     • Burgoyne
       • general Horatio Gates blocked and surrounded Burgoyne's army.
     • Howe
       • Was Still In Philadelphia
   • Advantages
     • Navy
     • Hessians
     • Larger army
     • Better army
     • More money
     • Loyalists
     • More people
     • African Americans
     • Native Americans
   • Plan
     • Control Of
       • Hudson River
       • Albany,New York
     • Cut off New England From the Middle Colonies

2. American

   • Generals
     • George Washington
       • Led Troops
     • Benidict Arnold
       • Stopped St. Leger at Fort Stanwix
     • Horatio Gates
       • general Horatio Gates blocked and surrounded Burgoyne's army.
   • Independance
   • Advantages
     • Fighting at home
     • Higher Motivation
     • Leadership
   • First Continental congress
     • Colonies and who they sent as representatives
       • New Hampshire
         • John Sullivan, Nathaniel Folsom
       • Massachusetts
         • John Adams, Samuel Adams, Thomas Cushing, Robert Treat Paine
       • Connecticut
         • Eliphalet Dyer, Roger Sherman, Silas Deane
       • New York
         • Isaac Low, John Alsop, John Jay, Philip Livingston, James Duane, William Floyd, Henry Wisner, Simon Boerum
       • Maryland
         • Matthew Tilghman, Thomas Johnson, William Paca, Samuel Chase, Robert Goldsborough
       • North Carolina
         • William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, Richard Caswell
       • South carolina
         • Henry Middleton, Thomas Lynch, Jr., Christopher Gadsden, John Rutledge, Edward Rutledge
       • Delaware
         • Caesar Rodney, Thomas McKean, George Read
       • Pennsylvania
         • Joseph Galloway, John Dickinson, Charles Humphreys, Thomas Miffin, Edward Biddle, John Morton, George Ross
       • Rhode Island
         • Stephen Hopkins, Samuel Ward
       • New Jersey
         • James Kinsey, William Livingston, Stephen Crane, Richard Smith, John De Hart
       • Georgia
         • Didn't send a representative because they needed British aid with weapons in suppressing a native American revolution
       • Virginia
         • Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison, Edmund Pendleton
     • called for the repeal of the 13 acts of parliament.
     • Wanted to boycott british trade or sell to britain
     • Endorsed the suffolk resolves
     • Declared the coercive acts/intolerable acts to be illegal.
     • Ability to arm themselves against the british and made militias
     • held in philidelphia

3. Important Battles

   • Battle of Lexington
     • April 19, 1775
   • Bunker Hill
     • June 17, 1775
   • Battle of Concord
     • April 19, 1775
   • Fort Ticonderoga
     • May 10, 1775
   • Battle of Cowpens
     • January 17, 1781
   • Battle of Monmouth
     • June 27-28, 1778
   • Battle of Saratoga
     • October 7, 1777
   • The Siege of Yorktown
     • October 19, 1781
     • End of war, British surrender, America Wins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4. France and Spain

   • LaFiette
   • Wanted to dethrone the king
   • Hated england