11. Fighting at Lexington and Concord and its effects
In April of 1775 the battle of Lexington and Concord occurred outside of Boston. It was the first battle of the Revolutionary War. The British intended to take stored gunpowder and capture Samuel Adams and John Hancock. Lexington Battle is known as “the shot heard around the world” but it is unknown if the British or the colonists fired the first shot. There were eight colonists dead and several others wounded before the British moved on to Concord. In Concord the colonists were ready for the British. The Colonists conquered the British by outnumbering them at Concord and wounding many of them. When the British had to retreat back to Lexington, the militiamen was firing shots all the way…show more content… General George Washington led the Americans to victory with the help of the French Army and Navy. After eleven days, British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered; it was a hard blow for the British War. The significance of the Battle of Yorktown was it had the British thinking they might lose the war and was the colonies worth the cost of war. The British government started considering a peace treaty with the Americans. (word count 89)
19. Treaty of Paris 1783 and its terms
The Treaty of Paris 1783 was a peace treaty signed by Britain and the United States ending of the Revolutionary War. The terms of the Treaty of Paris was Britain no long had claims to colony land or government. All thirteen colonies were considered independent free states. It granted boundaries allowing great west expansion along the Mississippi and to the Great Lakes in the north. Both parties wanted to protect their citizens’ rights and possessions so other terms dealt with debts, loyalist property, prisoners of war, and use of the Mississippi River. (word count 92)
20. What was the relationship between the results of the French and Indian War and the causes of the American Revolutionary War? How was America’s war for independence just an extension of the ongoing conflict between Britain and France? How did the Battle of Saratoga prove that France had an interest in American…show more content… The problems after the war is what lead up to the American Revolutionary War. One problem was the settlement of the New Land. The new lands from the French need protection and protection costs money and after the war Britain had suffered from a great postwar debt. The second problem was post war debt had doubled in cost within seven years of the war. The third problem was the Native Americans were still in North America after they had sided with the French. The British decided imposed taxes American colonists to bring the war debts down this lead to protest from the colonist, an example was the Boston Tea Party. The British was mad with the colonist after the tea party incident so the British pass the intolerable act which was more laws for the colonists to follow and a sneaky way for the British to collect money for the war debit. The British even closed the Boston port this made other colonies worry the British would do the same thing to them; so instead of British getting more control over the colonies; the colonies started forming unity among themselves against the British. The colonist formed a congress called the First Continental Congress to petition the king’s Intolerable Acts but the king never reposed. So the colonist boycotted British goods not long after the revolutionary war began. America’s war for independence was just an extension of the ongoing
