Question | Answer |
Patrick Henry said? | "give me liberty or give me death" |
rights | freedoms that are protected by a governments law |
declaration | a statement that declares, or announces, an idea |
Treason | is the crime of fighting against one's own government |
Abigail Adams wrote? | "in the new code of laws remember the ladies |
1776 | writes the declaration |
1800 | Thomas Jefferson elected as president |
1803 | doubles size of united states with the Louisiana purchase |
1804 | sends Lewis and Clark to explore the west |
loyalist | was someone who was still loyal to the king |
neutral | means not to take sides |
inflatation | a rise in the prices of goods |
Morgan Hart | had to defend her home against loyalist |
Phillis Wheatly | her poems praised George Washington |
retreat | means to move away from the enemy |
Nathan Hale | I only regret but I have one life to lose for my country |
George Washington | in the spring of 1776, the soldiers of Washington's army forced the British out of Boston. |
mercenary | is a soldier who is paid to fight for a foreign country |
victory | is the defeat of an enemy |
peter salem | a patriot hero of the battle of bunker hill |
Haym Salomon | a banker from philadelphia |
Joseph Brant | urged his people to side with the British |
James Armistead | a patriot hero Armistead spied on the British army |
Deborah sampson | dressed in men's clothes and joined the Continental army |
Martha Washington | Stayed at the generals camp and did all she could to help the soldiers |
Mary Ludwig hays | Was honored by General Washington for fighting in her husbands place after he was injured. |
John Burgoyne | led an army south toward Albany, New York |
Thaddeus Kosciuszko | A polish engineer helped stop the British |
Bendict Arnold | Led many attacks against the British, the americans won and forced Burgoyne and 5000 of his troops to surrender. |
Benjamin Franklin | had been trying to get help from France. |
Marquis de Lafayette | |