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Chapter 6 Wolf
The American Revolution
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Olive Branch Petition | colonists declared loyalty to the king and asked him to repeal the Intolerable Acts |
| Green Mountain Boys | Ethan Allen and Vermonters, lead a surprise attack on Fort Ticonderoga and gained a valuable supply of cannons and gunpowder |
| Continental Army | Second Continental Congress set up army with George Washington as commander |
| Patriots | colonists who favored war |
| Advantages of Patriots | owned rifles and were good shots, good leader, fighting on home ground |
| Disadvantages of Patriots | poorly organized and untrained, few cannons, little gunpowder and no navy |
| Advantages of British | highly trained, experienced troops, navy and many colonists supported the British |
| Disadvantages of British | armies were 3,000 miles away from home.....long supply lines |
| Loyalists | American colonists who remained loyal to Britain |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | first major battle of the Revolution....proved that the Americans could fight bravely and also showed the the British would not be easy to defeat |
| mercenaries | German hessians were used by King George to help fight the colonists |
| Common Sense | Thomas Painse pamphlet, told the colonists that is was time to make the break with Britian. The colonists did not owe anything to Britain. "Tis time to part." |
| Richard Henry Lee | introduced the resolution from Virginia in favor of independence |
| Committee assigned to write the Declaration | John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman |
| Thomas Jefferson | writer of the Declaration of Independence |
| John Hancock | president of the Continental Congress. First signature on the Declaration. |
| natural rights | rights that belong to all people from birth, AKA unalienable rights |
| life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness | unalienable rights |
| preamble | introduction, opening statement |
| 3 parts of the Declaration | Idea of natural rights, British wrongs, Declaration |
| Battle of Long Island | Howe's army defeated Washington, who retreated |
| Nathan Hale | Young Connecticut officer who was captures and hung for treason. Known for statement; "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." |
| Battle of Trenton | Washington and men crossed the Delaware. Gave the Americans new hope |
| Battle of Saratoga | Turning point in the American Revolution. French joined the Americans as Allies |
| Marquis de Lafayette | young French noble who helped train Washington's men |
| Friedrich von Steuben | Prussian who helped train troops to march and drill |
| Thaddeus Kosciusko | Polish officer who helped build forts and other defenses |
| Casimir Pulaski | Polish officer who helped train calvary |
| Valley Forge | 1777-1778, makeshift camp for Washington's men. horrible winter conditions |
| Women who helped the war cause | Betsy Ross-sewed flags, Mary Ludwig Hays-Molly Pitcher |
| James Armistead | African American patriot spy whose information helped the American victory at Yorktown |
| Prince Estabrook | African American who saw action at Lexington and Concord |
| Quakers | spoke out against the war |
| Bernardo de Galvez | governor of Spanish Louisiana, helped seize British forts along the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. Galveston is named after him |
| John Paul Jones | "I have not yet begun to fight" Naval officer of the Bonhomme Richard which attacked the Serapis and won |
| Battle of Cowpens | General Morgan won in South Carolina by dividing his soldiers into a front line and a rear line |
| Guilford Court House | One of the bloodiest of the American Revolution |
| guerrilla | hit and run tactics to harass the British |
| Battle at Yorktown | last battle of the American Revolution |
| Treaty of Paris | United States was an independent nation from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River. Northern border stopped at the Great Lakes, southern border-Florida, which was returned to Spain |
| ratified | approved |
| Why did the Americans win | Foreign help, Patriotism, home ground |
| What happens to George Washington | goes home to Virginia |
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