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| Thomas Paine: give the soliders purpose again |
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| 1776. Washington vs Howe. Only six casualties on Wash side. |
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| Purpose of Militiamen during the revolutionary war |
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| Home gard, made upthe Contential Army. Ready to fight |
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| Morisstown, New Jersyey 1776-1777 |
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| Washingtons army out in the cold. Mass inoculation. Many made it through and then got more troops to lead the army. |
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| 1777 Burygoynes mission to secure Philadelphia |
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| Washington met him at Germantown but also met Cornwallis there where America retreated. Yet once reaching Philly to see about the Tories, there weren't many their at all. |
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1777 Burgoyne moved his wealthy self toward Lake Champlain. Sentpart of anrmy down COl Barry St LEger and Fort Oswego 1777 Arnold ambushed tories, and indians at fort Stanwix Burgoyne pulled back toward Saratoga where he was surrounded by Horatio Gates (1777) where he surrendered |
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Previously helped US by sending them military supplies in 1776 Feb 6 17778 two treaties: 1.Offered trade 2. Fight intil independence won, no truce or peace without consent, guareented positions Led to Spain taking alliance with French, but not with America |
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| 1777-1778 Washingtons army: death of disease, hunger, cold. By the end the men left made a professional army. |
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| March 16, 1778 what did the House of Commons do? |
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| Granted all demands beside independence. Townsheand tesa, Massachussetts Government Act, and Prohibitory Act (closed colonies o commerce.) |
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| closed colonies to commerce |
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| Col William Hamiltion had the western settlement. So Clark suprised British at Kaskaskia and Vincennes. |
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| 1779"merely overrun but destroyed" burned many Idian villages |
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| 1778 led by Daniel boone held off the Indians |
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| Single greatest American loss where General Benjamin Lincoln surrendered |
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| 1780 assault against Patriot defenders |
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Killed rebels after surrender. Went after Patrick Ferguson but the overmountain men met Ferg and got him there. Led to America encourgaging guerilla war fare |
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Put his troops under Gen Daniel Morgan, to lure Gen Cornwalis' army around to lose British goods in the process. Led to fighting at Cowpens, where Tarleton lost many men in the process.1781 Met up again at Guilford Courthouse 1781 Led the Greenes retreat, and losses for the British |
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| Ended Benedict Arnolds plot to sell out washintons army. But he was hung as a spy. |
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| 1781Washington ready to go, until heard word of DeGrasses army landing in Chesapeke Bay. Met up then fought at Yorktown with 16,000 soliders, where Cornwallis surrendered |
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Negotiations after the war and Treaty of Paris |
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(1782) French was in the war with Spain to get Gibraltar, but Jay ignored them eventually and focused on Britain. Treaty of Paris(1783) Mississippi Coundary, FL to Spain, Fishing off Newfoundland and St. Lawrence |
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| Articles of Confederation |
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| Plural executive, not to give off any real power. Just wanted a social contract and popular sovreignty led them. |
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| freedom of speech, trial by jury, limit powers of governors, seperations of powers, elected governors, bill of rights to protect them |
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| Equaltiy in unviersal male suffrage, question of slavery |
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| "On theEquality of the Sexes." |
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| Judith Gloucester that women wre capable of other things beside what they have been limited to 1779 |
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| VA Declaration of Rights and VA Statue of Religious Freedom |
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1776: Freedom of religion 1786: all men have the freedon to do as they pleased |
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