Patriot Advantages and Disadvantages

Patriot Advantages and Disadvantages

Patriot Advantages
1. Strategic advantages, they knew the lay of the land.

2. Experienced military leaders.

3. (after the Battle of Saratoga)
Foreign Aid from
France, Spain, Holland

Patriot Disadvantages
1. Lack of unity, 1/3loyalists,
1/3 neutral,
1/3 patriots

2. Financial problems not $"not worth a continental"

3. Difficulty maintaining an army
"sunshine patriots".

British Advantages

British confident of victory

–Larger population, more resources 4xs population, strong manufacturing base

–Naval supremacy and well-trained army

Britain’s tasks

–Supply troops an ocean away in hostile territory

–Crush the popular spirit of independence Gen Gage said we are as lions and they are lambs

British underestimate Americans’ commitment to their political ideology Republican ideals, as long as the contintental army remained intact the rebellion continued

Washington rejects guerilla warfare strategy he knew that success depended on drill, planning, tough discipline, preparation

Continental army to be a fighting force and symbol of the republican cause What is hope?

Militia’s role: compel support for Revolution local political coercion

African Americans in the Revolution

–New England militias attract slaves with promises of emancipation

–Southern slaves more likely to side with British when loyalists slaves lost the war they fled to Florida, Jamaica and Africa

Look in your textbooks and find out how these two European friends helped the Partiot cause.

    Marquis de Lafayette

                                            Count Pulaski

Photo Credits:

Patriot: http://jimallanstudio.com/IMAGES/airbrush_the_patriot.jpg

Continental: http://historywired.si.edu/images/enlarged/437.jpg

Lesson Objectives

Students will learn

OBJECTIVES: Students will be able to:

1. list

2. explain the difference between

3. describe the

4. chart on a map the

5. define the terms

6. Explain the significance of

Knowledge: Recall of data.

Comprehension: Understand the meaning, translation, interpolation, and interpretation of instructions and problems. State a problem in one's own words.

Application:
Use a concept in a new situation or unprompted use of an abstraction. Applies what was learned in the classroom into novel situations in the workplace.

Analysis:
Separates material or concepts into component parts so that its organizational structure may be understood. Distinguishes between facts and inferences.

Synthesis:
Builds a structure or pattern from diverse elements. Put parts together to form a whole, with emphasis on creating a new meaning or structure.

Evaluation:
Make judgments about the value of ideas or materials.

Remember : Recognizing, Recalling

Understand : Interpreting, exemplifying, classifying, summarizing, inferring, comparing, explaining

Apply : Executing, implementing

Analyze : Differentiating, organizing, attributing

Evaluate : checking, critiquing

Create: generating, planning, producing