Organizer 4 & 5 ^ 6

Why Colonial resistance?

• Britain violating rights of colonist

• Tradition of self rule

• Enlightenment/Common sense

Why Indpendence?

• 1775 Fighting; Concord/Lexington/Bunker Hill

• Rejection of Olive Branch Petition 

• Common Sense

Women Contribution in Revolutionary War

• Spinning Bee’s

• Provide materials (for soliders/war?)

• Women soliders

Factors for American victory

• Continental Army; Lexinton/Bunker Hill

• Washington’s Leadership

• Colonist belief in Republicanism

• France (BATTLE OF SARATOGA CONVINCED THEM)

Abigail Adams

• Remember the ladies

Republican Motherhood

• Mother’s Install American Ideals into their children

• Opened up a better education of women

Treaty of Paris 1783

• US independence

• East of MS, South of Canada, & North of S.Florida

• Returning of Loyalist’s property

• British troops leave American soil

• Pre-Rev War debts must be paid

African Americans

• Gradual Emancipation 

• Manumission; slave owners ability to free slaves

• Freedom doesn’t mean equality