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| one who wants to make drastic changes in society |
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| favored war with the British |
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| formed political alliances to achieve a common goal |
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| worked for hire as a professional soldier |
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| favored peaceful solutions to the conflict with the British |
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| Second Continental Congress - May, 1775 |
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| few delegates wanted a break with Britain |
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| declared loyalty to the King; sent by the Second Continental Congress after the battles at Lexington and Concord |
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| list of wrongs that led to the Americans to break away from Britain |
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| the second part of the Declaration of Independence |
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| stated in the first part of the Declaration of Independence |
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| statement that all political ties with Britain have been cut |
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| the last part of the Declaration of Independence |
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| final battle of the Revolutionary War |
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| turning point in the war; ended the British threat to New England; convinced the French to become an ally of the United States |
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| British Commander in chief who expected to supplement his troops with volunteers of backcountry southerners |
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| young French noble who brought trained soldiers to help the Patriot cause; became one of Washington's most trusted advisors |
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| governor of Spanish Louisiana who helped the Patriot cause by seizing British forts on the southwest frontier |
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| author of "Common Sense," a pamphlet that greatly influenced colonial thinking toward independence |
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| influenced by reading Common Sense and introduced a resolution at the Second Continental Congress in favor of independence |
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| British recognize the United States as an independent country with a border from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. Florida was returned to Spain. American agreed to pay Loyalists for lost property. |
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| strengths of the colonial army |
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| knowing geography, men had guns and knew how to use them, foreign aid, growing patriotism, effective leader |
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| defeated the warship the Serapis in the North Sea, September 1779 |
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| at Boston, the first major battle of the Revolutionary War; won by the British but proved Americans could fight bravely. |
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| camp during the hard winter of 1777-1778 for Washington and his troops; remembered for the great suffering endured by the soldiers: lack of housing, food, clothing, ammunition, medicine, etc. |
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