Chapter 8 Outline-AP US History 							Mrs. Sanchez
Chapter 8 Reading due by Monday, September 18, 2000
America Secedes from the Empire

I. Congress Drafts George Washington
A. What attitudes were prevalent at the meeting of the Second Continental Congress?
B. What was accomplished?
C. What notable qualities did George Washington possess
II. Bunker Hill and Hessian Hirelings
A. Ticonderoga-what happened?
B. Bunker Hill
1. Breed's Hill
2. What happened?
C.  What was the affect of the hiring of the Hessians?
III. The Abortive conquest of Canada
A. What false beliefs did the Americans hold regarding French Canadians?
B. What happened?
1.  Montreal
2. Quebec
3. Other areas
IV. Thomas Paine Preaches Common Sense
A. Why did Americans continue to deny their intention of independence?
B. What changed American ideas regarding independence?
C. Common Sense
1. Why was it important?
2. Why was it so influential?
V. Paine and the Idea of "Republicanism"
A. Why were Paine's ideas radical?
B. What were the origins of Republicanism?
C. What attitudes were in the colonies that contributed to the formation of republican government?
D. What was "natural aristocracy"?
VI. Jefferson's "Explanation" of Independence
A. How and by whom was independence proposed?
B. Why was Jefferson chosen to draft the Declaration of Independence?
C. What factors were included in the Declaration of Independence?
D. Why is the Declaration of Independence called the "shout heard around the world"?
VII. Patriots and Loyalist
A. Why was the war called a "War within a War"?
B. Why can it be said the American Revolution was a minority movement?
C. Loyalist
1. Who were they?
2. Why could they be described as tragic figures?
3. Where were the Loyalist strengths and weaknesses and why?
VIII. The Loyalist Exodus
A. How were the loyalist treated?
B. What happened to the loyalist in America

IX. General Washington at Bay
A. Why the concentration on Boston?
B. What events marked a low tide in the War for America?
C. What happened at Trenton and Princeton?
X. Burgoyne's Blundering Invasion
A. What were the British doing in upper New York?
B. What did Benedict Arnold do? What was the outcome?
C. What happened to Burgoyne and his men?
D. What happened at Valley Forge?
E. What happened at Saratoga?
F. Why was Saratoga such a decisive battle?
XI. Strange French Bedfellows
A. Why was France eager to join the war?
B. How did the French gradually get involved in the war?
C. What did France promise America?
D. How did the Americans have problems with the French alliance?
XII. The Colonial War becomes a World War
A. How did the global scale of the war help America to win?
B. How did this change British strategy?
XIII. Blow and Counterblow
A. What did Benedict Arnold do?
B. What was the impact of Arnold's action?
C. What happened in the Carolinas?
XIV. The Land Frontier and the Sea Frontier
A. Who was Joseph Brant?
B. Why were Americans vulnerable in the west?
C. Describe the American navy
XV. Yorktown and the Final Curtain
A. Why was the period of 1780-1781 one of the darkest periods of the war?
B. What happened at Yorktown?
C. How did fighting continue after Yorktown?
XVI. Peace at Paris
A. Why were the British ready for the end of the war?
B. Who attended the Paris peace conference?
C. What had not worked out for France?
D. How did John Jay negotiate the peace treaty?
E. What was in the treaty of Paris?
XVII. A New Nation Legitimized
A. Why was Britain so generous with land?
B. How did the French react to the separate peace?