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This The War in the South, 1778–1781 lesson plan also includes:
- The War in the South, 1778-1781
- American War for Independence: Interactive Map
- The American War for Independence
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The second in a three-part look at the Revolutionary War focuses the years from 1778 through 1781 and zooms in on military operations in the southern colonies, the French alliance, and the role African-Americans played in events. Class members examine primary source documents, and their interactive maps created in the previous lesson, to determine why the British attempt to move the battlefield into the South proved unsuccessful.
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- The essential primary source documents are all included
- Especially significant are the documents and links to information about Black Loyalists
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- Class members must have some prior knowledge of Generals Cornwallis and Nathanael Green, as well as of the significance of loyalists, Kings Mountain, cowpens, the Guilford Courthouse, and Yorktown