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The man who published a pamphlet entiled "Common Sense."
Common Sense was a document listing the reasons to rebel against the king. |
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Strengths and Weakness of the British |
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Strengths Weakness:
1. army Fighting 3000 miles
2. hired merceneries Lacked Supplies
3. access to supplies Poor leadership
4. powerful army |
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| Strengths and Weakness of the Americans |
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Strengths: Weakness:
1.Motivation Soliders poorly trained & equipped
2.strong leader G. W. Lack of supplies
3.France becomes allies Cont. Congress couldn't buy supplies
No navy |
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| African Americans in the war |
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Free and enslaved people contribute as militiamen, soliders, sailors, cooks, blacksmiths and coach drivers when the Continental Congress was
1. faced declining numbers of soliders
2. and found out that
the British offered to free slaves who fought for them |
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| The purpose of Yankee Doodle |
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| Originally it was an insult from the British then turned it into the Americans motivation to insult the British back |
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| Battle of Saratoga outcome |
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| The French and Spanish joined the Americans and gave them money, soliders, weapons and warships |
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| Battle of Trenton military strategy |
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| Surprise attack, cross Delaware River at night on Christmas |
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| Battle of Saratoga military strategy |
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British: take control of the Hudson River
Americans: Avoid large battles and tire them out |
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| Battle of Yorktown military strategy |
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British: Start southern campaign
American: joined the French and surround Yorktown and Cornwallis was trapped |
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| Battle of Yorktown leaders |
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George Washington (A)
Cornwallis (B)
Rochambeau (F) |
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| George Washington(A), Lafayette(F), Baron Von Steuben(F) |
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| Battle of Trenton: Leader |
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Yorktown,Virgina
Final battle Americans win |
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Boston, Massachuetts, really at Breeds Hill (the battle was misnamed after Bunker Hill)
Israel Putnam(A), William Howe(B)
British won because Americans ran out of the gunpowder |
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| Took over farms and businesses. Cared for wounded at military camps, but struggled with food and labor shortages and military attacks on their homes and communities. |
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| Declaration of Independence |
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explained to the world why the colonies are separating from Great Britain
stated that all men are created equal in that all men are equal
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| Declaration of Independence Committee |
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| Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, Roger Sherman, John Adams |
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| the struggle of the former British colonies in America to gain independce, also called the war for indepence |
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| troops that fight for someone as long as they get paid |
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Ended the American Revolution
Britain recognized U.S.A as a independent nation
southern and northern borders established (Canada[N] and Florida[S]) |
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petition that peacefully asked King George, the third, to end the quarrel
-a petition is a formal written request
He denied it |
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| Rights you are born with: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness |
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| person guilty of the crime of treason-going against your government |
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an overall plan
a specific way of carrying out a strategy is called tactics |
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Army set up by Continental Congress
Goal - to fight for America's freedom
Leader George Washington |
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