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Chapter 7
The American Revolution
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8th Grade
12/05/2011

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Loyalists
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-Those who remain loyal to Great Britain
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Patriots
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-Colonists who chose to fight for independence
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Battle of Bunker Hill
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-Showed the colonists that they could hold their own aganist the Britsh.
-British suffered more than 1,000 casualties
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Mercenaries
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-hired foreign soldiers
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Lord Dunmore's Proclamation
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-promised freedom to any slave who fought for the British
-created by Lord Dumore, Virgina's goveror
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Abigail Adams
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-Set out to protect the right of women
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Declaration of independence
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-documents that all men possess unalienable rights.
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Lord Dunmore's Proclamation
Definition
-promised freedom to any slave who fought for the British
-created by Lord Dumore, Virgina's goveror
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Unalienable rights
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-Basic rights:life, liberty,and the pursuit of happiness.
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Thomas Jefferson
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-Author of the declaration of independence.
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Battle of Trenton
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-Dec. 26th lasted less than an hour
-Patriot forces captured more than 900 Hessians only 5 American casualties
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Battle of Princeton
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-surprise attack Jan. 2nd
-Patriots attacked the redcoats and won
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John Burgoyne
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-British decided to strike back aganist the Patriots
-he led British troops to take back Fort Ticonderoga
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Thomas Paine
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-Wrote the common sense pamphlet
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common sense
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-Thomas paine's pamphlet arguing for the colonies to break away from great britain.
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First Continental congress
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-Had 56 colonial delgates in philadelphia.
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George Rogers Clark
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-Key American Leader in the west
-Goal was to build on army white weakening the british
-Took over the town of Vincennes during the Batttle of Vincennes
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Thayendanegea
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-Joseph Brant
-one of great britain's key allies
-persuadedthe iroquois to support the british
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John Paul Jones
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-One of the most successful american captains.
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Minuteman
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-Local militia members who were ready to fight on a minute's notice.
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Battle of Vincennes
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-Battle aganist British vs clark's Army
-Clark took over city
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Bernardo de Galvez
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-Governor of spanish Louisiana, key ally to the patrits
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Thomas Gage
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-British general who decided to take away the minutemens weapons & ammunition
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Molly Pitcher
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-Brought water to the thristy troops
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Redcoats
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-British soilders
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William howe
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-British General whose Army drove the continental Army off long island
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Second Continental Congress
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-12 colonial delegates met in Philadelphia to decide how to react to fighting
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Marquis de Lafayette
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-on the patriots side.
-was a wealthy,young ffrench man
-gave $200,000 to support the revolution
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Continental Army
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-Army that defended the colonies led by George Washington
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George Washginton
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-Led the continental army
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Friedrich von steuben
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-a prussian Army afficer who led with a combination vof respwct and fear -he taught basic millitary skills
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George Washginton
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-Led the continental army
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Olive Branch Petititon
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-Request for peace by the Second Continental Congress
-Rejected by Brittian's King George III
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Battle of Yorktown
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-Patriots wore down British defenses
-Charles Cornwallis surrendered to the patriots
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Siege
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-Soilders surrounded by a city or fort.
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Battle of Brandywine creek
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-Washington troops battled against howe's troops
-howe's trooops won white th patriots suffered wire as many casualties
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Comte De Rochambeau
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-French general who worked with washington.
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Treaty of Paris of 1783
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-Peace agreement that ended the revolutionary war and established british recongnization of the united states
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Horatio gates
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-Led patriots
British troops crushed his army.
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Francis manor
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-Best at guerilla warfare techniques
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Battle of Saratoga
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-Burgoyne's Army was out numbered by patriot troops
-his troops suffered major defeat and surrendered
-Patriots captured the entire Army
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guerrilla warfare
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swift hit and run attacks
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