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17 Cards in this Set
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Ticonderoga and Crown Point
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- Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold captured the British
-1775 |
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Bunker Hill
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-June 1775
-Actually Breed's Hill -British were repulsed 3 times -Americans ran out of ammo -Americans lost -Disasterous for British |
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Olive Branch Petition
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-American loyalty to the crown
-July 1775 -King George didn't want reconsiliation -August 1775 proclaimed colonists in rebellion -Americans were forced to fight and break from English ppower |
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Hessians
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-King hired German soldiers
-told Navy to destroy innocent towns -came from Hesse -6 German princes needed the money so they gave Britain troops -wanted monetary value more than loyalty to Britain |
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Falmouth (Portland), Maine
AND Canada |
-October 1775
-burned by British -colonists attacked Canada in same month -General Richard Mongomery was killed -British burned Norfolk |
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Thomas Paine
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-wrote "Common Sense"
-colonial unity was poor and open rebellion was dangerous -hardens America towards wanting independance -English colonies had outgrown British domination |
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The Declaration of Independence
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-written by Thomas Jefferson
-enlightened document -justifies changing the government: laundry list fo king's misdeeds and obligation to seek redress -sever ties and represent will of the people -"all men are created equal" - 4th of July 1776 -act of treason |
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Democracy v. Republic
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Democracy: people decide on the programs and directly vote towards it
Republic: elect people to represent your ideals, ruling in name of people |
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Loyalists
VS Patriots |
"Tories"
-people of weath, education, culture and caution -"a thing whose head is in England and its neck ought to be stretched" -Anglican Church -New York City, Charleston, Quaker PA, New Jersey -least numerous in England "Whigs" -presbyetrianism and congregationalism -New England -hung, imprisioned and mobbed loyalists |
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General George Washington
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-British fleet came to NYC in July 1776
-Americans were routed at Battle of Long Island -Washington escaped to Manhattan Island -crossed Hudson River to NJ -crossed Delaware River -Americans captured 1,000 Hessians -William Howe was Washington's adversary |
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Burgoyne
and Saratoga |
-Britian wanted to sever New England from the rest of the states
-General Burgoyne pushed down Lake Champlain from Canada -Howe's troops in NY could get up the Hudson to meet near Albany -St. Leger would come in from the west by Lake Ontario - surrendered at Saratoga October 17, 1777 to Gates -turning point: financial aid came from France |
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Lexington
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-April 1775 shooting
-Spain and Holland fought against Britian -Catherine the Great- Armed Neutrality (Armed Nullity) -France provided weapons and forces -Washington attacked redcoats at Monmouth, NJ 1778 |
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Benedict Arnold
and Nathaniel Greene |
-Arnold turned traitor in 1780
-Greene cleared out British troops from Georgia and South CCarolina |
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Treaty of Fort Stanwix
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-first treaty between US and Indian nation
-Indians ceded most of their land -signed with Iroquois |
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Land and Sea Frontier
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-George Rogers Clark: captured British of the wild Illinois country
-John Paul Jones: father of the navy -Privateering: privately owned vessels went to country during wartime |
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Yorktown
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-bankrupt government, inflation
-deGrasse advised Americans to help assault Cornwallis at Yorktown -entire force surrendered 7000 men on October 19, 1781 |
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Peace at Paris
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-Lord North's ministry collapsed March, 1782
-John Jay, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin negotitated at Paris -preliminary treaty was signed 1782 -Treaty of Paris 1783: -British recognizeed indepedence of US -Spain gets Florida -Britian granted boundaries, Mississippi on the west, Great Lakes on the north, Spanish Florida on the south -Loyalists weren't prosecuted -Congresses was to recommend restoration of Loyalist property |
