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Working with evidence
1. Follow the steps to analyze the question: Look for Time, Task and Content.
a. Analyze the political, diplomatic, and military reasons for the United States victory in the Revolutionary War. Confine your answer to the period 1775–1787.
2. Sort through the list of evidence provided and categorize it into the three categories asked for in the prompt. Add rows if needed. If necessary, use all the resources available to you to research unfamiliar material.
Political
Diplomatic
Military
3) Articles of Confederation
French Alliance 1778
Minutemen
1) Declaration of Independence
Treaty of Paris, 1783
Bunker Hill June 1776
Second Continental Congress
Benjamin Franklin, ambassador to France
No effective British blockade of American Coast
2) Locke and the enlightenment
George Washington
Saratoga, October 1777; led to French Alliance
Patrick Henry “Give me Liberty or give me Death”
John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay
Trenton, December 1776
4) Thomas Paine, Common Sense and The Crisis
American geographical expanse
Valley Forge, 1777-78
British occupation of American cities- New York, Philadelphia, Charleston, Savannah
Baron Von Steuben
Olive Branch Petition
Lexington and Concord, April 1775
Pre-1775 actions leading to 1775–1783 actions
Nathanael Greene
Loyalists, including native Americans and African Americans.
Role of women- nurses, soldiers, camp followers
Collapse of Lord North’s ministry, 1782
Washington, commander of the army
Colonial experience from earlier colonial wars
General John Burgoyne
Fighting on home ground, distance from England
Yorktown, October 1781- “the world turned upside down.”
Hessians
Princeton, January 1777
Marquis de Lafayette
Lord Charles Cornwallis
POSSIBLE EVIDENCE
American geographical expanse
Articles of Confederation
Baron Von Steuben
Benjamin Franklin, ambassador to France
British occupation
1. Follow the steps to analyze the question: Look for Time, Task and Content.
a. Analyze the political, diplomatic, and military reasons for the United States victory in the Revolutionary War. Confine your answer to the period 1775–1787.
2. Sort through the list of evidence provided and categorize it into the three categories asked for in the prompt. Add rows if needed. If necessary, use all the resources available to you to research unfamiliar material.
Political
Diplomatic
Military
3) Articles of Confederation
French Alliance 1778
Minutemen
1) Declaration of Independence
Treaty of Paris, 1783
Bunker Hill June 1776
Second Continental Congress
Benjamin Franklin, ambassador to France
No effective British blockade of American Coast
2) Locke and the enlightenment
George Washington
Saratoga, October 1777; led to French Alliance
Patrick Henry “Give me Liberty or give me Death”
John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay
Trenton, December 1776
4) Thomas Paine, Common Sense and The Crisis
American geographical expanse
Valley Forge, 1777-78
British occupation of American cities- New York, Philadelphia, Charleston, Savannah
Baron Von Steuben
Olive Branch Petition
Lexington and Concord, April 1775
Pre-1775 actions leading to 1775–1783 actions
Nathanael Greene
Loyalists, including native Americans and African Americans.
Role of women- nurses, soldiers, camp followers
Collapse of Lord North’s ministry, 1782
Washington, commander of the army
Colonial experience from earlier colonial wars
General John Burgoyne
Fighting on home ground, distance from England
Yorktown, October 1781- “the world turned upside down.”
Hessians
Princeton, January 1777
Marquis de Lafayette
Lord Charles Cornwallis
POSSIBLE EVIDENCE
American geographical expanse
Articles of Confederation
Baron Von Steuben
Benjamin Franklin, ambassador to France
British occupation