Victory and Confederation Or Victory In Spite of the Odds.
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Victory and Confederation
Or Victory In Spite of the Odds
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• Spain and France had secretly sent arms to the Patriots• To weaken Britain’s global power
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• The Patriots tried to convince France to send troops but the French wanted to make sure the Patriots could win
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• At the Battle of Saratoga, the Patriots won
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• The French government formally recognized the Patriots’ cause and entered the war as their ally
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• In 1781, British General Cornwallis decided to invade Virginia• If the Americans continued to control
Virginia, more troops and supplies would enter the South and help the Patriots
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• But then something happened• The British were defeated at the Battle
of Yorktown
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• During the surrender, a British military band played a popular nursery tune, ‘The World Turn’d Upside Down’
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• The Treaty of Paris, was signed on September 3, 1783• John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and
John Jay conducted most of the negotiations for the United States
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• And a new nation was born• The United States of America
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• But even before independence, the Patriots had created a document for the new nation
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• It was called the Articles of Confederation• And it created a weak central
government
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• After all, they had just fought against a powerful king• So, naturally, they feared a powerful
government
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• The Articles only created a Congress• No President• No Supreme Court
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• And that Congress did not even have the power to tax – to levy taxes
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• No power to regulate foreign trade• Approval of nine states to enact new laws• Could not regulate trade between states• And there was no national army
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• A violent rebellion against state taxes in Massachusetts – Shays’ Rebellion – made Americans realize that they did need a stronger government
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• But there was one accomplishment• The Northwest Ordinance• It established a method for a new territory
to become a new states