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1 Name: Military History: Unit 2 America s War for Independence Specific Events and Concepts Stamp Act Stamp Act Congress Proclamation Line of 1763 Declaratory Act of 1766 Townshend Act of 1766 Sons of Liberty Boston Massacre Coercive Acts Quartering Act Boston Tea Party Committees of Correspondence First Continental Congress Second Continental Congress Localism Centers of gravity in warfare Valley Forge Hessians Loyalists Treaty of Paris: 1783 Newburgh Conspiracy Articles of Confederation 1 st American Regiment Shay s Rebellion Constitutional Convention Article I and the Military Article II and the Military Second Amendment Third Amendment Specific Battles: Lexington Concord Fort Ticonderoga Bunker Hill Trenton Saratoga Monmouth Specific People: Thomas Gage George Washington John Adams Henry Knox Benedict Arnold Charles Cornwallis The Howe Brothers Frederich von Stueben Camden King s Mountain Guilford Courthouse Yorktown Battle of the Chesapeake Battle of the Waxhaws John Burgoyne Robert Morris Banastre Tarleton Nathaniel Greene John Paul Jones Marquise de Lafayette Alexander Hamilton

2 Discussion Questions: 1. What economic and political factors fueled the colonist s desire for independence? 2. What were the goals of the Sons of Liberty and the Committees of Correspondence? In what capacity did they achieve military objectives? 3. Using this link: ( what do these battle paintings suggest about the battles of Lexington and Concord? 4. What obstacles did the First Continental Congress face in trying to wage war against Great Britain? 5. What is localism and how would it be conceived as an American advantage during the war? 6. If you review the tale of the tape who should have won this war and why?

3 7. Please argue in favor or in opposition to this statement: The colonies didn t have to win the war, they just to not lose the war 8. Describe the cannon scene in John Adams, how does this film portray this significant event? 9. What did the brothers Howe takeover of New York due to the colonial mindset? Relate this to the center of gravity principle of warfare. 10. What should we know about Benedict Arnold? 11. What is the difference between a militia and a continental which would you have joined and why? 12. Characterize the challenges that Washington faced in trying to unify the American forces?

4 13. Why was Johnny Burgoyne such a detriment to the British military endeavor? 14. How are the events at Trenton characterized in The Crossing? 15. How did the film characterize the challenges faced by the American military during the Revolutionary war? 16. Did Jeff Daniels play the Washington you expected to see? Explain 17. Why was Saratoga such a significant turning point in the Revolutionary War? 18. Why did Britain feel like it win the war fighting in the South? 19. What did the battle of the Waxhaws indicate about the changing British mindset in the war?

5 20. Many historians believe that the British lost the war in the South. Please support or deny that claim. 21. When the war turned to a Naval focus, the colonists knew that they needed to quickly build a navy how did they militarize so quickly on this front? Were they successful in combating the British military superiority on the seas? 22. Describe the role of the French in the battle of Yorktown? 23. Why did the French help the Americans in their cause? 24. What were the provisions of the Treaty of Paris? 25. What challenges did the colonists face in disarming at the end of the American Revolution? Would we see such a crisis emerge today? 26. Describe the various attitudes about establishing a standing army in the wake of the American Revolution?

6 27. Why was the 1 st American Regiment a body that lacked the ability to guarantee the basic safety of the American republic? 28. Why did Shay s Rebellion make the Founders realize that a standing military was probably the right idea? 29. How did the framers address the military in the Constitution? Please consider the following: Article I Article II 2 nd Amendment 3 rd Amendment 30. Connection to the present do you think the current state of the 2 nd amendment is what the framers had in mind when it was created in the 1780 s? Why is it that Americans hold this right with such intensity? Explain.

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