The Early Years Chapter 6 Section 1. Advantages and Disadvantages American Advantages 1. Home Advantage 2. Could recruit troops easily 3. Fighting for.

The Early Years

Chapter 6 Section 1

Advantages and Disadvantages

American Advantages

1. Home Advantage

2. Could recruit troops easily

3. Fighting for Freedom!

4. George Washington

British Disadvantages

1. Far from home

2. Took time to transport troops

3. Fighting for the $$$

4. Underrated Colonists

Advantages and Disadvantages

American Disadvantages

1. No navy

2. Not well trained

3. Lack of Supplies

4. 2.5 million people

British Advantages

1. Most powerful navy

2. Strong army

3. Plenty of Supplies

4. 8 Million people

5. Hired mercenaries

Loyalists

▪ Strongest population in North Carolina & Georgia.

▪ Anglican Church

▪ Jobs

▪ Not justifiable reason to fight

Neutral

▪Taking neither side of conflict

▪Example: Quakers

African Americans

▪Main reason- Freedom!!!!

Other reasons- $$$, Patriot Cause

Some joined British & American sides

Lemuel Hayes & Peter Salem

- Fought Battle of Concord

-Over 5,000 enlisted

Women

Margaret Corbin- Joined Continental Army with husband.

At Battle of Fort Washington, her husband died. She replaced him and manned a cannon against the British.

Molly Pitcher- Carried pitchers of water to soldiers

Deborah Sampson- Disguised as a boy and enlisted

Raising An Army

States’ attitudes

Hesitated at first

Congress Problems

Difficult recruiting

Difficult to raise $$$

Raising An Army

Congress depended on states to enlist

Enlist- recruit

One Year Contracts

George Washington- Convince men to enlist for 3-4 years or til’ end of war

Battle of Long Island

Americans

20,000 troops

George Washington

British

32,000 troops

William Howe

Nathan Hale- Connecticut school teacher

Spied on British soldiers

Caught and hung “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country”

Battle of Long Island

Americans lost

- Short on supplies (No clothes, shoes, shirts, bullets, blankets, etc)

Americans lowest point

1. Lots of soldiers completed term of service and went home.

2. Lost New York

George Washington- “I think the game is pretty near up”

Crossing of Delaware

Winter of 1776

George Washington led 2,400 men in the

night of Christmas

Trenton- Surrounded town and captured nearly 1,000 Hessians

Princeton- Took it from the Brits

British Strategy

Take New York, Albany, & Control of Hudson River

- Separate New England from Middle colonies

1. John Burgoyne- South from Canada

2. Barry Leger- East from Lake Ontario

3. William Howe- North from New York

Philadelphia

On the way to Albany, William Howe attacks capital of America…

On September 1777 Philly is taken and Continental Congress run!

Patriots slow the Brits!

1. British General Leger tried to take Fort Stanwix, but Benedict Arnold forced British to retreat!

2. British General Burgoyne took Fort Ticonderoga

a. Reasons to why slowed down

i. Carried loads of good food & fine clothing.

ii. Americans chopped down trees

Patriots slow the Brits!

British General Burgoyne sent 800 men and Native Americans to take supply base in Bennington, Vermont.

-Green Mountain Boys attacked them and won battle.

Low on troops and supplies, Burgoyne forced to retreat to Saratoga.

Battle of Saratoga

Barry Leger isolated in Saratoga (No reinforcements)

General Horatio Gates- American surrounded Leger with army three times the size of British army.

Leger attempted to attacked but failed…

5,700 British soldiers handed weapons to Americans.