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Dec Of Independance
Declaration Of Independance
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Second Continental Congress | It was a convention for the delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting up the spring of 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
| George Washington | The commander in chief of the continental army, that soon after became the first president in the united states. |
| Continental Army | The Continental Army was formed by the Second Continental Congress after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War by the colonies that became the United States of America |
| Impose | To force something on somebody that is not familiar to them. |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | The first actual battle in the Revolutionary War, that was fought nearby Boston, on June 1775. |
| Independence | Self-ruled, on their own, by themselves. |
| policies | a course or principle of action adopted or proposed by a government, party, business, or individual. |
| Olive Branch Petition | Adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5th, 1775, and signed in July 8th to avoid starting war with the British and the 13 colonies again. |
| Thomas Paine | Thomas Paine was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary. |
| Common Sense | A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine, to fight for independance from the british. |
| Declaration of Independence | A document written by Thomas Jefferson, and the committee of five, to get independent from the british. |
| Thomas Jefferson | A founding father, who was a part of the committee of five, and who wrote the Declaration of Independence. |
| Natural Rights | The rights written in the Declaration of Independence as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as rights they naturally have. |
| fundamental rights | The rights to liberty, the rights to due process of law the rights to freedom of movement, the rights to freedom of thought. |
| Independence Day | The 4th of July; the day the declaration of independence was adopted into the 13 colonies |
| Patrick Henry | Patrick Henry was an American attorney, planter, and orator well known for his speech in the Second Virginia Convention "Give me liberty, or give me death!" |
| The Preamble of the Declaration of Independence | It's the brief introduction before the whole speech. |
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