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27 Cards in this Set
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Delegates declared loyalty to the king and asked him to repeal the Intolerable Acts |
Olive Branch Petition |
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Allen lead a band of Vermonters to attack Fort Ticonderoga, they were called _____________ |
Green Mountain Boys |
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Army led by George Washington |
Continental Army |
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Colonists who favored war against Britain |
Patriots |
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American colonists who remained loyal to Britain were known as _________ |
Loyalists |
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The first major battle of the Revolution |
Battle of Bunker Hill |
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Shutting of a port to keep people or supplies from moving in or out |
Blockade |
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Troops for hire |
Mercenaries |
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A pamphlet saying how colonists' believed that Parliament didn't have the right to make laws for the 13 clonies |
Common Sense |
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Common Sense was written by ___________ |
Thomas Paine |
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A person who betrays his or her country |
Traitor |
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__________ wrote the declaration of independence |
Thomas Jefferson |
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Preamble |
Introduction |
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First section of the Declaration of Independence |
Natural rights |
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Second section of the Declaration of Independence |
British wrongs |
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The last section of the Declaration of Independence |
Independence |
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More than 1,400 Americans were killed, wounded, or captured |
Battle of Long Isand |
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December 26 the Americans surprised the Hessian troops guarding Trenton and took most of them prisoner led by George Washington |
Battle of Trenton |
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Major turning point in the war |
Battle of Saratoga |
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________ work together to achieve a common goal |
Allies |
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Troops on horseback |
Cavalry |
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The continental army had to face hard times as it suffered through long a long winter of 1777-1778 at a makeshift camp at ______________ |
Valley Forge |
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When the British thought the Americans have retreated they ran into another line of men which led to an American victory |
Battle of Cowpens |
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When an army surrounds and blockades an enemy position in an attempt to capture it |
siege |
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When Cornwallis went to a peninsula and Washington took advantage and attacked. Cornwallis soon surrendered |
Battle of Yorktown |
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The British recognized the United States as an independent nation with borders |
Treaty of Paris |
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Ratified |
Approved |