PreAPUSH American Revolution - Thematic Prep

American and Regional Culture

1. French and Indian War (fought under crown)

2. 30,000 loyalists fought in support of the crown (American Revolution)

3. Loyalists left the country  (after American Rev)

Politics and Power

1. Continental Congress (want for political change led to fighting at Lexington and Concord)

2. Dec. of Independence (showed want for separation)

3. Treaty of Paris (officially declared U.S free of a monarch)

Social Structures

1. Indians helped fight with America

2. During war women helped

3. Treaty of Paris (declared women/enslaved/Indians had no rights)

America in the World

1. Townshend acts (only trade with Britain showed restricted connection)

2. France joins war (with Spain) to fight against England

3. England remains connected after American Revolution (kept an ally)

Work, Exchange, and Technology

1. Intolerable Acts (colonists got economic hardships)

2. Congress ran out of hard currency (inflation, profiteering, people making bullets/clothes)

3. Debt of war highlighted in Treaty of Paris (America has to pay for their half of the debt)

Geography and the Environment

1. Use of guerilla warfare (attacked British supply lines)

2. Battle of Trenton (Washington crossed Delaware River, winning New Jersey)

3. Treaty of Paris (America expands east of Mississippi River)

Migration and Settlement

1. French soldiers fighting (Siege of Yorktown through land and naval troops)

2. Treaty of Paris (after war, all British troops are withdrawn)

3. Loyalist soldiers leave America (Canada, other nations)