Valley Forge

• The site of the continetal army during the winter of 1777-1778

• Where the continental army surrounded Burgoyne and he surrendered his army

• When you produce too much money and the value of everything goes down

• Selling scarce goods for a profit

• In New Jersey, where Garrison of the Hessians had drunk to much the night before and got surprise attacked by washington in the morning, 918 men were taken captive

Yorktown

• Where Britian formally surrendered

• A young French aristocrat who joined Washingtons army

Treaty of Paris

• Confirmed America as their own country and set boundries of the new nation

• A belief in the equality of people

• Prussian captain and talented drill master, volunteered his services to General Washington

• Ambitious general who sailed south with 8,500 men

Republic

• A government were the states are ruled through their representives

• Believed that countries should be ruled by the peoples consent

• Where congress proposed the new type of government and laws

• An alliance

Land Ordinance of 1785

• Congress passed a law that stated free exploration of the new land

• Congress passed the act that provided the procedure for dividing the land which involved three steps that the indians didnt really agree with