Outcome of the Revolution
Objective:
Why did America Win?
1. Better Leadership – ________________________________
2. Foreign Aid - $ from enemies of Britain
(______________ and Spain)

France helped at last battle… ____________________
3. ____________________________________________
4. ____________________________ – dreams of freedom
The Cost of the War
1. _______________________ Americans died
2. 10,000 British died
3. many soldiers received little or no pay
4. to get food, many sold land
5. ____________________________________________________
Treaty of Paris (1782)
established
1. US _______________________________ (free) from England
2. US __________________________________________________
3. US received fishing rights off Canada
4. each side repaid debts owed before the war
5. British to return any captured slaves
6. Congress recommends land taken from loyalists
to be returned
Neither side lived up to
the deal
Fate of Loyalists
did not return property
did not repay debts
80,000 – 100,000 left for England or Canada
** _______________________________________________
New State Governments
_________ formed their own govts.
duties were divided into ________________________
1.Legislative
2. Executive
3. Judicial
Republic
Ratified
voters choose _______________________ to run
government
____________________________
Articles of Confederation
_________________________________ ratified (national)
gave ____________________________ – came from Congress
problems with the
Articles
1. each state had only _______________ no matter its size
2. Congress ____________________________
3. No __________________________ (Executive)
4. weak overall
Summary: