Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
Chapter 2, Lesson 3: Fighting the American Revolution (pp. 62-70)
I. Early Battles of the Revolution
B. The Battle of Bunker Hill showed the British that the colonists would fight hard.
C. To drive the British from Boston, Washington used cannons captured at Fort Ticonderoga, New York.
II. The Road to the Declaration of Independence
B. Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence which was approved and signed by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776.
III. War in the North
B. After the American victory at Saratoga, Benjamin Franklin convinced France to side with the new country against Britain.
C. The winter of 1777-1778, which the Continental Army spent at Valley Forge, was extremely difficult.
IV. War in the West and South
B. With French aid of soldiers and supplies, the Continental Army won the war at Yorktown, Virginia.
IV. The Treaty of Paris
B. The Treaty of Paris set the northern border of United States and Canada where it is now, and the western border at the Mississippi River.
Lesson at a Glance Outline
A. The first exchange of fire in the American Revolution occurred in battles at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts.
A. Thomas Paine wrote an influential pamphlet called Common Sense which called for the colonists to establish an independent republic.
A. The Continental Army, led by George Washington had an important victory at Trenton, New Jersey.
A. After the spring 1778, the major fighting of the Revolution occurred in the South and West.
A. With the Treaty of Paris, the British withdrew all their troops and the United States of America became the world's newest nation.
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