Share to Google Classroom The Year in Revolution: 1781 Unity video explains how the need for national unity among the thirteen states was greater than ever by 1781, when all thirteen former colonies finally ratified the Articles of Confederation, the United States’ first written constitution. Congress’ goals and the passionate autonomy of states […]
Share to Google Classroom The Year in Revolution: 1781 Eutaw Springs video recounts the clash between Patriot and British forces at the Battle of Eutaw Springs, a fierce fight that ended with heavy losses, withdrawal, and Britain’s loss of South Carolina’s interior. General Nathanael Greene established himself as a pivotal asset, with a […]
Share to Google Classroom The Year in Revolution: 1781 Black Americans in the American Revolution video explains how over 5,000 Black Americans shaped the Revolutionary War as both free and enslaved laborers, soldiers and sailors, and spies—even as most were denied the rights they helped defend. The stories of the Continental Army’s 1st […]
Share to Google Classroom The Year in Revolution: 1781 Overview video explains how the American Revolutionary War reached its decisive turning point in 1781 as Patriot resolve reshaped the Southern war at Cowpens and Guilford Courthouse, allied pressure tightened in Virginia, and Britain surrendered at Yorktown following a French triumph at the Battle […]
Share to Google Classroom The Year in Revolution: 1781 Virginia video features the fight in Virginia culminating in Washington and Rochambeau’s Siege of Yorktown–a bitter defeat for Britain that marked a major step toward American independence. Also chronicled are the movements of the marquis de Lafayette, Benedict Arnold and the capture of Richmond, […]
Share to Google Classroom The Year in Revolution: 1781 Spanish Louisiana and British West Florida video explores how Spain used its alliance with France and its territories in North America and the Caribbean to champion the American cause—threatening Britain’s stronghold in North America and capturing the British fortification at Pensacola, securing the Gulf […]