Commonwealth or independent nation? Reasons against independence. Reasons for independence. The Declaration. The War. Comparisons to Vietnam. The Battles and the Treaty.

1. THE WAR
FOR
INDEPENDENCE

2. BRITISH COMMONWEALTH
OR INDEPENDENT NATION?

3. April, 1775
Lexington

4. July 4, 1776
(+ 15 mos.)

5. Against Independence

6. commonalities

7. fear

8. British advantages

9. 4:1

10. 4:1

11. 4:1

12. vs Colonists

13. Continental Army
17,000  5,000

14. 40,000

15. King George III

16. “Papa”

17. For Independence

18. The War

19. Propaganda

20. Propaganda

21. King George III

22. Hessians

23. The Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776

24. THE WAR

25. Vietnam

29. a war of wills

30. Battle of Saratoga
October 17, 1777

31. Battle of Yorktown
October 17, 1781

32. Treaty of Paris
1783

33. Treaty of Paris
1783

34. “If ponies rode men,
and if grass ate cows,
And if cats should be chased
into holes by the mouse…
If summer were spring,
and the other way round,
Then all the world
would be upside down!”

35. “The World Turn’d Upside Down”