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| SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS |
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| THE BODY THAT CHOSE GEORGE WASHINGTONM COMMANDER OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. |
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| THE BRITISH COLONY THAT AMERICANS INVADED IN HOPES OF ADDING IT TO THE REBELLIOUS THIRTEEN. |
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| THE INFLAMMATORY PAMHPLET THAT DEMANDED INDEPENDENCE AND HEAPED SCORN ON "THE ROYAL BRUTE OF GREAT BRITAN". |
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| DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE |
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| THE DOCUMENT THAT PROVIDED A LENGTHY EXPLANATION AND JUSTIFICATION OF RICHARD HENTY HEE'S RESOULTION THAT WAS PASSED BY CONGREE ON JULY 2, 1776. |
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| THE TERM BY WHICH THE AMERICAN PATRIOTS WERE COMMONLY KNOWN, TO DISTINGUISH THEM FROM THE AMERICAN "TORIES". |
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| ANOTHER NAME FOR THE AMERICAN "TORIES". |
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THE RIVER VALLEY THAT WAS THE FOVUS OF BRITAIN'S EARLY MILITARY STRATEGY ADN THE SCENE OF BURGOYNE
S SURRENDER AT SARATOGA IN 1777. |
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| THE WESTERN BOUNDARY OF THE UNITED STATES ESTABLISHED IN THE TREATY OF PARIS. |
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| MILITARY ENGAGEMENT THAT LEFT KING GEORGE III OFFICIALLY TO DECLARE THE COLONISTS IN REVOLT. |
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| A RADICAL BRITISH IMMIGRANT WHO PUT AN END TO AMERICAN TOASTS TO KING GEORGE. |
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| FIERY VIRGINIAN AND WUTHOR OF THE OFFICIAL RESOLUTION OF JULY 2, 1776, FORMALLY AUTHORIZING THE COLONISTS INDEPENDENCE. |
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| FIERY VIRGINIAN AND WUTHOR OF THE OFFICIAL RESOLUTION OF JULY 2, 1776, FORMALLY AUTHORIZING THE COLONISTS INDEPENDENCE. |
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| FIERY VIRGINIAN AND WUTHOR OF THE OFFICIAL RESOLUTION OF JULY 2, 1776, FORMALLY AUTHORIZING THE COLONISTS INDEPENDENCE. |
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| AUTHOR OF AN EXPLANATORY INDICTMENT, SIGNED ON JULY 4, 1776M THAT ACCUSED GEORGE IIIOF EXTABLISHING A MILITARY DICTATORSHIP. |
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| BLUNDERING BRITISH GENERAL WHOSE SLOW PROGRESS SOUTH FROM CANADA ENDED IN DISASTER AT SARATOGA. |
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| THE BRITISH DEFEAT THAT LEF TO THE FALL OF NORTH'S GOVERNMENT AND THE END OF THE WAR. |
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| MOHAWK CHEIF WHO LED MANY IROQUOIS TO FIGHT WITH BRITIAN AGAINST THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARIES. |
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