Lesson 6: Soldier Life
Homework: Write your own journal entry based upon what we read in class or illustrate the primary document you read
Lesson 7: Battle Analysis or Declartion of Your Independence
Project
Lesson 5: Test
Lesson 4: The Articles
Notes: PPT
Homework: What were two major problems with the Articles?
Primary Sources
The Declaration of Independence 1776
Articles of Confederation 1778
Letters from an American Farmer 1770s
The Diary of Albigence Waldo at Valley Forge
Ebenezer Denny at the Surrender of Yorktown
Christopher Vail's Journal during the Revolution
Capt. Pausch on Life in the British Army
An Anonymous Account of the Boston Massacre
Secondary Sources
A history of Cornwallis: Charles, Earl Cornwallis by Janie B. Cheaney.
The American Revolution as the British saw it: The Weekly Standard: "Dispirit of '76" by Edward Short.
The 1st CINC: USHistory.org: "George Washington, Commander in Chief" by Mrs. Wildman.
The Events of 1770: UMKC: "The Boston Massacre Trials: An Account" by Doug Linder.
King Washington? EarlyAmerica: "The Rise and Fall of the Newburgh Conspiracy" by George L. Marshall, Jr.
Multimedia
Revolutionary War Battles Animated
Index of Revolutionary Battles
Revolutionary Overview Animation
CrashCourse: Prelude to the Revolution (12:20)
CrashCourse: Who Won the American Revolution? (12:41)