Zusammenfassung der Ressource
American Revolution
- 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
- 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
- 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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- France and Spain
- LaFiette
- Wanted to dethrone the king
- Hated england