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Revolutionary War
The Revolutionary War
| Patriot/Battle/Other | Definition+Key Factors |
|---|---|
| Sam Adams | *started Sons of Liberty *named the Boston Massacre *started CC * represented Massachusetts in the US CC |
| Patrick Henry* | *the 'Sam Adams' of Virginia *member of the CC *accused of treason at one point *gave a speeeeech in March of 1774 to stand up for himself+start it all *"Give me liberty, or give me death" |
| Battle of Bunker Hill* | *colonists on the top of da hill *one British officer suggested attacking on both sides but the main general(Gage)said no *3 tries for the British to win *why British one:the colonists ran out of ammo *"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes" |
| Thomas Paine | *born in England, moved to colonies *wrote "Common Sense" to convince people to become independent from England *other pamphlet="The Crisis" |
| Thomas Jefferson* | "All men are created equal" *2nd CC *wrote the DOI |
| John Hancock* | "Now the king can read it w/out his spectacles and x2 the reward on my head" *SIGNED THE DOI *2nd CC from Massachusetts *name=SIGNATURE |
| Nathan Hale* | "I only regret that I have but one life to give to my country" *spy 4 GW who got caught+hung |
| Battle of Trenton | Day after Christmas GW marched his troops across DELAWARE RIVER and took captive ALL the British |
| Battle of Princeton | huge victory4COLONIES *the one where they stoked up their fires to trick Gnrl Cornwallis |
| Battle of Saratoga | 3 pronged attack COLONIES WON and the FRENCH JOINED COLONIES |
| Valley Forge | when GW THOUGHT he had 8months of food but he had 8 DAYS *the horrible winter of starving+freezing to death 4 the colonial army |
| John Paul Jones* | "I have not yet begun to fight" compared to (thereisnowheretogo on!) *father of American NAVY *the sinking ship story about defeating British COLONIES take over ship |
| Benedict Arnold | *stopped St. Leger from getting to Saratoga *used to fight for GW but didn't think he got enough credit and joined British *name=TRADER |
| Deborah Sampson | took bro's name and dressed up as a man in the colonial army for 17 months |
| Molly Pitcher | nickname from delivering pitchers of water........husband got wounded at cannon and she took his spot (illegally muhuhahahaha) |
| Battle of Yorktown...ITS THE END OF THE WAR AS WE KNOW IT | Movie scene battle *GW takes his troops to NYC without saying so *Cornwallis trapped himself and surrendered because the British Navy never came, the French Navy did *Colonies WIN and take the heart out of British this is the LAST MAJOR rev. war battle |
| Swampfox~ Francis Marion | *Guerilla warfare *hit and run attacks *attack @ night *hide in swamps during day "SWAMPFOX" |
| Treaty of Paris | signed September 3, 1783 demands: *GB will recognize America as a NEW country + *boundaries of America are Canada-Florida + Atlantic Ocean-Mississippi River |
| when was the DofI signed??? | July 4, 1776 |
| 1st Continental Congress | only 12/13 colonies show up (Georgia does not) |
| 2nd Continental Congress | all 13 show up and John Hancock is elected leader *Olive Branch petition sent to King and IGNORED!!! +not even looked at |
| Tea Act | lowered the price of GB tea so colonists would buy it instead of smuggling w/out taxes |
| Boston Tea Party | they threw 342 chests of tea into the harbor |
| Intolerable Acts | closed the port of Boston, ..... |
| Battle of Lexington/Concord | the shot heard around the world... colonies successfully hide their weapons over the bridge but get run down by the British??? |
| Proclamation of 1763 | imaginary line over Appalachian Mts. |
| Slogan | NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION |
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lingle39
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