The American Revolution
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- The petition
- WE ARE DECIDING
- HMM..
- Americans Divided
- US TOO
- I SUPPORT THE LOYALIST
- A last attempt in peace
- Loyalists (supported the British) and Patriots(supported independence), who now have to decide what side they will be with.
- The end of the war
- Most Native Americans- supported the Loyalists Most African Americans - supported the Loyalist
- Portrait of the men who negotiated the Treaty of Paris
- By July 1775, moderates in Congress draft the Olive Branch Petition, asking the king to restore peace -The king rejects the petition -Sends British Navy to block American ships from leaving ports
- A change in ideas
- By 1781, most of the fighting took place in Virginia. The Battle of Yorktown would be the last major battle of the American Revolution
- The British refused to be part of the painting, they did not want to appear in a painting that showed Americans as their equals
- The American Revolution was not just a war, but a change in ideas about government Before the war Americans demanded their rights as English citizens, that idea was replaced with the idea of republicanism.
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