A Day of Reflective Questions

• I don’t want you to just blurt out answers. Think about your response and be able to back it up with examples that are historically accurate not your opinion.

Who on paper should have won the Revolutionary War?

What was the reason for America’s success?

What lesson can and should be learned from this war?

The Role of Blacks

• Why was the decision to use blacks so controversial?

• What were some long range consequences of this decision?

Identify which battle was turning point in the Revolutionary War

• Bunker Hill

• Saratoga

• Cowpens

• Trenton

• Princeton

• War in the South

• Yorktown

What was the major turning point in the War non-military (battle)

• George Washington- leader

• Patrick Henry “Give me Liberty”

• Continental Congress

• Thomas Paine-pamphlets

• Treaty of Amity and Congress

• Benedict Arnold- defecting

• Treaty of Paris

Could have America been victorious in the Revolutionary War

without George Washington?

A Civil War Within A Civil War• A word of caution. Let’s look at this from a

variety of perspectives.

• First we need to know who were the different groups of people at this time?– Patriots Loyalists Savages– Americans French Indians– British Hessians Tories – Variety of Religious Groups

A Civil War Within A Civil War

• What makes one group righteous and another traitors?

• Who was in the “Right?”– British?– Loyalists?– Patriots?

A Civil War Within A Civil War

• How should have the Loyalist / Tories been treated?

• During the war?

• After the war?

A Civil War Within A Civil War

• Is there a difference between a Loyalist and a Patriot soldier who volunteered to defend their liberties and became untrustworthy and even cowardly?

Final Reflective Question

• What would happen today if you spoke out against the government and wanted to make a structural change?