Chapter 6
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| Patrick Henry | Anti-federalist -"Give me liberty or give me death"
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| Battle of Concord | Site of the first actual battle of the American Revolution.
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| King George III | The King of England who disbanded the colonial legislatures, taxed the colonies, and refused the Olive Branch Petition leading to the final break with the colonies.
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| Lord Cornwallis | British general who surrendered at Yorktown.
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| Lord North | Blamed for losing the American Revolution.
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| Common Sense | A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to convince colonists that it was time to become independent from Britain
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| First Continental Congress | Met in Philadelphia. Colonists asked Britain to repeal the Intolerable Acts.
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| George Washington | Patriot leader who was in the Continental Congress and commanded the Continental Army.
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| Patriots | A Colonist that was loyal to the idea of breaking away from the crown.
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| Continental Army | Army created by the Second Continental Congress to defend the American Colonies from Britain.
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| Minutemen | Patriots who were ready to fight at minutes notice.
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| Redcoats | British Soldiers
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| Second Continental Congress | Adopted the Declaration of Independence-Created the Continental Army
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| Thomas Paine | Wrote pamphlets; Common Sense and The Crisis to encourage American independence .
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| Battle of Lexington | The first shots of the American Revolution were fired here.
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| Thomas Jefferson | Wrote the Declaration of Independence, became the 3rd President of the United States and purchased the Louisiana territory, doubling the size of the United States.
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| Declaration of Independence | Drafted by Thomas Jefferson. Bulk of it lists the grieveness to King George III.
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| Treaty of Paris 1783 | Ended the American Revolution. Two crucial provisions of the treaty were British recognition of U.S. independence and the delineation of boundaries that would allow for American western expansion.
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| Loyalist | A colonist loyal to the English Crown.
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| Battle of Yorktown | The British were defeated by George Washington’s troops signaled the end of the American Revolution. (Cornwallis-British General)
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| Battle of Saratoga | The turning point of the American Revolution as it gave France a reason to enter the war against Britain.
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| Marquis de Lafayette | French officer who helped finance the American Revolution.
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| Olive Branch Petition | Adopted by the Continental Congress in July 1775 in an attempt to avoid a full-blown war with Great Britain. King George III ignored it.
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| British Advantages | The British were well-equipped soldiers and had a large, powerful navy.
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| Colonists Advantages | Colonist were fighting on their own ground, they had soldiers who were fighting for their freedom from Britain(men from colonies, they had George Washington as their leader,they had great determination, & they had food close by.
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| John Adams | American statesman,delegate to the Continetal Congress...defended the British soldiers after the Boston Massacre.
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| How the Colonists won the American Revolution. | Americans were fighting on their Native soil and knew the lay of the land and Americans were fighting for a cause; Liberty-Freedom whereas the British were uncertain as to their own goals.
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| John Locke | In writing the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson drew heavily on the doctrines of this person concerning the general principles of liberty and the rights of man.
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