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| met on May 10 1775, this time with all 13 colonies represented. They still sought to redress colonial grievances, but were spurned by the crown |
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| Chosen to lead the hastily improvised army besieging Boston. Not a military genius, but he was gifted with strong morals and leadership. |
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| Thomas Paine / Common Sense |
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| A radical author and his influential, widely-read pamphlet. Published in 1776, it questioned why a tiny island should govern a whole continent. It called for the creation of a republic. |
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| Thomas Jefferson argued that all people have these at birth in the Declaration of Independence. |
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| Thomas Jefferon / Declaration of Independence |
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| A young lawyer / writer and his document. It demonstrated why the colonies deserved independence and included ideas like natural rights. |
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| American rebels who fought for the American cause, and also those who supported America |
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| Those in America who were sympathetic to the British cause or fought the colonists. |
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| militant young supporter of independence, shouted "Give me liberty or give me death" before the Virginia Assembly. |
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| British general who was defeated at Bunker Hill and later defeated by George Washington's "New Jersey Campaign," wherein Washington's men ambushed the Hessians after their Christmas celebration. |
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| John Burgoyne / Horatio Gates |
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| Burgoyne was defeated by Benedict Arnold's troops at Lake Champlain and later surrendered to General Horatio Gates at the Battle of Saratoga. |
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| described the basic principles of "A Model Treaty," a document drafted by the Continental Congress in 1776 to guide the American commissioners. "No political connection... NO military connection... Only a commercial connection." |
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| defeated British general Cornwallis in the Carolina campaign of 1781, known as the "Fighting Quaker" |
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| defeated by General Greene in the Carolina campaign of 1781, and later defeated at Yorktown by Washington on land and De Grasse at sea. |
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| conceived and executed a plan to recapture posts along the Ohio River that England had taken from France, and his actions possibly forced the British to cede the region north of the Ohio River to the US at the peace table in Paris. |
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| the act of being authorized to prey on enemy shipping by Congress |
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| the treaty in which the British formally recognized the independence of the US, and granted generous boundaries to them |
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