Share to Google Classroom The Year in Revolution: 1783 Veterans video examines America’s first veterans. Over a quarter of a million Americans served in the armed forces that won our independence—80,000-90,000 in the Continental Army, an all-volunteer army of ordinary citizens. Congress and the states offered a wide range of inducements to secure […]
Share to Google Classroom Our Year in Revolution: 1783 Civic Virtue video explores how and why 18th century Americans studied the democracies of classical Greece and Rome and celebrated the ancient Roman hero Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus as an embodiment of civic virtue. Cincinnatus was a general who defended the Roman Republic from invaders […]
Share to Google Classroom The Year in Revolution: 1783 Treaty of Paris video chronicles the peace talks between America and Britain that began in Paris in 1782. The British prime minister directed his home secretary, Wiliam Fitzmaurice, Earl of Shelburne, to oversee negotiations on behalf of Britain, who in turn instructed Richard Oswald […]
Share to Google Classroom The Year in Revolution: 1783 Sovereignty video is about the United States’ presentation as a sovereign nation on the world’s stage in 1783. The Treaty of Paris states that: “Great Britain acknowledges the Sovereignty and Independence of the of the Thirteen United States of America.” Seven years before it […]
Share to Google Classroom The Year in Revolution: 1783 Overview video chronicles events of the final year of the war, including: the Provisional Articles of Peace and the Treaty of Paris, the Newburgh Conspiracy, the establishment of the Society of the Cincinnati, Washington’s Farewell to his officers and resignation, the Battle of Cuddalore, […]
Share to Google Classroom The Year in Revolution: 1783 Newburgh, New York video takes place in Newburgh, New York. With no formal articles of peace in place by March 1783, Continental officers could not yet formally disband. They were encamped at Newburgh, on the Hudson River, to keep watch over the British army […]