Please visit this website and read the piece "George Washington as Military Leader." Please note that this continues to the next page!
http://www.pbs.org/georgewashington/classroom/military_leader2.html
Please answer these questions about the reading:
1. What challenges did Washington face off the battlefield during the Revolutionary War?
2. Explain three ways that Washington’s understanding of military power was influenced by geography.
3. Why was the use of strategic retreat important to Washington’s success?
4. Why was Washington’s victory at Monmouth important?
5. What factors led to the defeat of Cornwallis at Yorktown?
6. What impact did General Washington have on the American Revolution?
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Monday, December 7, 2009
HW for 12/9
Please read pages 138-149.
# Why did the British decide to launch a campaign against the southern colonies in 1778? What advantages and disadvantages did each side have in this region?
# Why did the British "Southern Strategy" backfire?
# How was Spain an obstacle to the American hopes for peace with independence?How did this affect American diplomacy before the Battle of Yorktown?
# What was the significance of the Yorktown victory for the colonists? for the British?
# What were the provisions of the Treaty of Paris in 1783? How did the Treaty affect relations among the United Sates, France, and Spain?
# Who were the Loyalists? What elements in America remained loyal to the King, and for what reasons?
# What happened to the Loyalists?
# What effect did the war have on other minorities? How was its significance to African-Americans both limited, and yet significant?
# How did the Revolution affect the way American women thought about their status? What changes resulted from this new awareness?
# What changes did the Revolution produce in the structure of the American economy?
# Why did the British decide to launch a campaign against the southern colonies in 1778? What advantages and disadvantages did each side have in this region?
# Why did the British "Southern Strategy" backfire?
# How was Spain an obstacle to the American hopes for peace with independence?How did this affect American diplomacy before the Battle of Yorktown?
# What was the significance of the Yorktown victory for the colonists? for the British?
# What were the provisions of the Treaty of Paris in 1783? How did the Treaty affect relations among the United Sates, France, and Spain?
# Who were the Loyalists? What elements in America remained loyal to the King, and for what reasons?
# What happened to the Loyalists?
# What effect did the war have on other minorities? How was its significance to African-Americans both limited, and yet significant?
# How did the Revolution affect the way American women thought about their status? What changes resulted from this new awareness?
# What changes did the Revolution produce in the structure of the American economy?
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Factors that Handicapped the Crown's Ability to Wage Effective War
PBS has a series called Liberty!, which presents lots of information in a teacher's guide to accompany the series.
Follow this link to find the list they have prepared of Factors that Handicapped the Crown's Ability to Wage Effective War. We can certainly consider these to be either American advantages or British disadvantages.
Follow this link to find the list they have prepared of Factors that Handicapped the Crown's Ability to Wage Effective War. We can certainly consider these to be either American advantages or British disadvantages.
HW for 12/7
Look at this website: http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/congress.htm
It presents to you Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence as submitted to the Second Continental Congress (and seen debated in 1776).
Your job is to identify the reasons behind each change. Generally, they will fall into one of two groups (although some will fall into both): grammatical or political.
Make a chart in which you write down the change (you can write the first three or four words then the last three or four words, with an ellipsis in between), and then identify the reasons for the change.
In this task, you will be closely reading the Declaration of Independence as well as identifying the reasons they made the changes they did. Think carefully about the Age of Enlightenment, and what affect the ideas and ideals of that time would impact the words and changes.
For Monday, you need to address all changes up to and including the paragraph that ends:
Peoplewho mean to be free. Future ages will scarcely believe that the hardiness of one man adventured, within the short compass of twelve years only, to lay a foundation so broad & so undisguised for tyranny over a people fostered & fixed in principles of freedom.
It presents to you Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence as submitted to the Second Continental Congress (and seen debated in 1776).
Your job is to identify the reasons behind each change. Generally, they will fall into one of two groups (although some will fall into both): grammatical or political.
Make a chart in which you write down the change (you can write the first three or four words then the last three or four words, with an ellipsis in between), and then identify the reasons for the change.
In this task, you will be closely reading the Declaration of Independence as well as identifying the reasons they made the changes they did. Think carefully about the Age of Enlightenment, and what affect the ideas and ideals of that time would impact the words and changes.
For Monday, you need to address all changes up to and including the paragraph that ends:
People
Monday, November 30, 2009
HW for 12/3
Read pages 133-138 (Iroquois and the British)
You should take outline notes on all readings, but the focus of your notes should be to compare British advantages and disadvantages with American ones.
You should take outline notes on all readings, but the focus of your notes should be to compare British advantages and disadvantages with American ones.
Monday, November 23, 2009
HW for 12/1
You are to complete the following assignment for Tuesday's class.
Remember, your work is to be your own. If you have any troubles, please feel free to see me. These questions are directly from your book, and submitting work one day late results in a 10% (1 point on a homework assignment) deduction. Copying the work of another student or giving another student your work results in a zero on the assignment and potential disciplinary action. Please see the student handbook for more information. Again, if you are having any problems, please see me.
Read pages 128-133, and answer the following questions:
List the divisions within the Second Continental Congress and give the aim of each faction. How did the factions attempt to gain their ends? What were the major arguments presented by Thomas Paine in Common Sense? How did the pamphlet, Common Sense, address the problem of the aim of the war? What was its impact on American opinion? What were the philosophical roots of the Declaration of Independence? What effect did the Declaration have on the struggle? What problems did the Americans face in providing the necessary supplies and equipment for the war and in paying for them? How were these problems, at least initially, overcome?
Remember, your work is to be your own. If you have any troubles, please feel free to see me. These questions are directly from your book, and submitting work one day late results in a 10% (1 point on a homework assignment) deduction. Copying the work of another student or giving another student your work results in a zero on the assignment and potential disciplinary action. Please see the student handbook for more information. Again, if you are having any problems, please see me.
Read pages 128-133, and answer the following questions:
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Causes Test
Your test on the Causes of the American Revolution has been MOVED to Monday, November 23.
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