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Committee of Respondence

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  • under the guidance of Samuel Adams the committee provided information on British threats to liberty to other areas of the colonies
  • in three months 8 new committees had come up in Massachusetts
  • the committees provided not only information but also model of inter colonial cooperation, an important step toward a united political and military response to what British encroachments
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Gaspee Incident

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  • armed British custom ship
  • ran around Providence Road Island
  • the ships captain was not welcome ashore
  • On June 9, local citizens boarded the Gaspee, captured and removed the crew, and burned the ship
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The Act of 1773

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  • the East India company was the most profitable business enterprise in Britian, but they fell on hard times
  • the company was on the verge of bankruptcy and turned to prime minister Lord North
  • Lord North granted a monopoly on the shipment and the sale of English tea in America
  • the tea act set tax on tea in America, and theBritish tea was still cheaper than smuggled Dutch tea
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Tea Party

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-the tea arrived in Boston Harbor on November 28, 1773.
-the patriots tried to get it returned to England
-the patriots were determined the tea would not be unloaded in Boston
-thousands gathered in the old south church
-the patriots leaders made a final attempt to contact governor Hutchinson
-150 men and boys disguised as Mohawk Indians and boarded the Dartmouth and two newly arrived ships
-342 large case of tea were dumped into the harbor
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Tories

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  • Pro British colonist

- admitted that the tea party “had been conducted as correctly as a crime could be

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Paxton Boys

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  • A large group of Scot-Irish living in the back country of south central Pennsylvania
  • thought Pennsylvania’s government was not doing enough to protect the people of the colony
  • decided to defend themselves and make a vigilant group
  • they murdered six Conestogas Indians and burned the cabins where the murders happened
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Regulators

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  • residents of North Carolina
  • dissatisfied with the colonies wealth upperclass leaders who they considered to be cruel and corrupt
  • they rebelled against the tyrants of the east and their goal was to set up an honest government and reduce taxes
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Sons of Liberty

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-secret group began in 1765 in reaction to the stamp act
-burned officials in effigy
-tarred and feathered tax collectors, dumped the tea into Boston harbor, and intimidated those who supported the crown
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Coercive Acts

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  • four acts
  • intended to punish and subjugate the troublesome colonies
  • the first coercive act was the Boston port act, which closed the harbor in June 1, 1774 until the value of the destroyed tea was reimbursed
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Thomas Cage

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-a general for the British Soldiers and he came to replace Thomas Hutchinson

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Intolerable Acts

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-patriots who refuses to be coerced, hardened opposition and created an unprecedented sense of solidarity against the colonies

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The Quebec Act

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  • was directed at British, Canada and not the 13 colonies
  • it was designed for the needs of French Canadians who loved under British occupation since Quebec became a British possession in 1763.
  • set up a rigid political system and extended the boundaries of Quebec southward to the Ohio River
  • encouraged many believers to join the growing chorus of dissent out of fear of centralized religious authority
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Continental Congress

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  • Thomas Jefferson called a day of fasting and prayer as a show of support of Boston Patriots
  • the royal governor after hearing this dissolved the House
  • the legislators reconvened at a near by tavern where they adopted a resolution for the meeting of continental congress
  • on September 5th representatives from all the colonies except Georgia gathered in Philadelphians carpenters hall
  • inncluded: George Washington, Patric Henry, George Dickinson, John and Samuel Adams
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Declaration of American rights

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  • stated that the colonies must be autonomous or self governing in nearly every respect
  • maintained an alliance with the King but asserted that his actions had to be consistent with American rights
  • they were given the right to raise their own militias
  • the delegates agreed to reconvened the congress in May 1775
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Militia

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  • citizen soldiers, part time fighters who left their farms and businesses to fight in emergencies
  • they remained non-professionals serving only as long as the emergency lasted
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Regulars

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  • full time soldiers who made the military their career

- the continentals were Americas regulars in war, serving as the veteran core of Washington’s army

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Minutemen

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  • special units of militia men

- formed a quick first line of defense in case the red coats invaded the country side

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Patrick Henry

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-rose to address his fellow legislators with powerful words that would soon be confirmed with blood

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Paul Revere

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-spread the alarm to every middle village and farm

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Lexington and Concord

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  • 49 Americans had been killed, and 39 wounded
  • but the British regulars he been hurt badly by farmers
  • not only were 73 red coats killed and 174 wounded, but patriots forces now had them bolted up in Boston
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Patriots

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  • fought for the cause of independence

- more patriots than Tories

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Loyalists

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  • also known as Tories
  • named after the kings party in parliament
  • continued to support the crown
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Hessians

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  • German mercenaries

- used to fill out ranks of the British forces in America

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2nd continental congress

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-formed when the delegates gathered in Philadelphia in May 10, 1775

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Fort Ticonderoga

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-in New York it fell to patriot forces from Vermont known as the green mountain boys under the command of Ethan Allen

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Ethan Allen

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-leader of the green mountain boys

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George Washington

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  • was asked to take charge of a continental army
  • 43 year old would help link the patriot cause in New England with the rest of the country
  • after the French and Indian war he was looked upon as a hero
  • his greatest strengths were commanding presence, coolness under fire, and keen ability to lead and inspire
  • elected by Continental Congress
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Bunker Hill

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  • Occurred on the Charlestown peninsula north of Boston.
  • On June 16, 1775, Patriot forces hastily built fortifications on Bunker Hill
  • The British had won a costly victory, suffering more than a thousand casualties among the two thousand soldiers
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Henry Knox

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-order by George Washington to go to Fort Ticonderoga and retrieve the captured British cannons.
-transported fifty-nine pieces of heavy artillery on a wintry, mountainous, three-hundred-mile trek.
-Knox’s cannons arrived in late January 1776
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Olive Branch Petition

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-pledged loyalty to the king and requested his intervention in curbing Parliament’s abusive exercise of power.
-drawn by delegates on July 5, 1775
-George III refused to read it
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Common Sense

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  • written by Thomas Paine
  • described monarchy as a foolish form of government
  • sales reached half a million copies
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Thomas Paine

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  • author of common sense
  • an Englishman who had lived in America little more than a year
  • opposed Christi- anity and advocated a radical form of democracy that John Adams thought dangerous.
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John Adams

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-was appointed to draw up a declaration in support of Lee’s resolution

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Thomas Jefferson

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  • was appointed to draw up a declaration in support of Lee’s resolution.
  • did most of the work on the draft
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Declaration of Independence

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  • listed the grievances that Americans had against the king

- stated universal principles that would shape the character and direction of the emerging nation.

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William Howe

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  • General Gage’s replacement

- in July 1776 he landed his forces on Staten Island.

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Trenton

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  • On Christmas night of 1776, Washington led his troops across the river against Hessians
  • during this at least two men froze to death
  • the Hessians surrendered
  • Nearly one thousand Hessians were killed or captured, but Washington did not lose a single man.
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Princeton

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-the base at which Cornwallis had a thinly defended supply base

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John Burgoyne

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-British General
-his plan was to move south down Lake Champlain and through the wilderness of upstate New York, while General Howe would send a force north from New York City up the Hudson River to Albany
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Battle of Brandywine

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-Occurred on September 11, 1777
-Howe outmaneuvered Washington, and sent a force under General Cornwallis northward to cross the Brandywine at an unprotected ford.
-On October 4 Washington tried to recapture the city but failed
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Benedict Arnold

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-one of the finest in the Continental army.
-joint commander with Ethan Allen
-captured British-held Fort Ticonderoga
-Congress refused to promote him and this angered him
-In 1779, he secretly offered his services to the British
-plotted to give a fort to the British for £20,000.
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Horatio Gates

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  • American commander

- took most of the credit for the victories in Saratoga

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Daniel Morgan

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-One of Horatio Gates subordinates

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Saratoga campaign

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  • was the turning point of the war
  • an entire British invasion force of more than six thousand men been killed or captured
  • France became America’s ally against the British
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Valley Forge

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  • Where the American army made its headquarters for the winter of 1777–78
  • at the time the British was controlling Philadelphia
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Baron von Steuben

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  • came to Valley Forge in a splendid German uniform to serve as a drillmaster for the Continental army
  • he was a fraud because he was not actually a baron
  • a German who drilled American soldiers
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Battle of Monmouth

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  • vindicated von Steuben’s work

- the battle ended in a draw

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George Rogers Clark

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  • a native Virginian

- In 1778 he lead an attack on British trading posts north of the Ohio River in the region then known as the Northwest.

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Vincennes

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  • A trading post on the Wabash River (what is now Indiana)
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Siege of Charleston

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  • late March 1780, Clinton’s forces besieged Charleston
  • General Benjamin Lincoln, gave up the advantage of mobility and heeded the pleadings of Charlestonians to hold the city at all cost.
  • as a result Lincoln lost all of his men
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Charles Cornwallis

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-Clinton gave him command of the Carolina conquest
-The Americans sent an expedition of about three thousand Continentals and militia to meet the British advance.
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Camden

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  • In South Carolina
  • where the American troops were outnumbered and outgeneraled.
  • the American troops led by General Gates broke and ran in the heat of battle
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Francis Marion

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  • Nicknamed the “Swamp Fox”
  • Marion and his men would slip out of the swamps and sand flats to attack British outposts and supply lines (guerrilla warfare).
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Battle of Kings Mountain

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-strengthened the Patriot’s resolve

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Nathanael Greene

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  • took a small army and made it the scourge of Cornwallis’s army
  • first move was to divide his outnumbered army and send a detachment south under General Daniel Morgan.
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Battle of Cowpens

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-the first major step toward eventual British defeat.

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Race to the Dan

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  • After a difficult two-week march in which British and American soldiers alike fell dead in their tracks from exhaustion and starvation
  • the reason they were so desperate to win was because:
    1. If the Continentals won, the Dan would cut off the British pursuit.
    2. If the Continentals lost, the Americans would rein up in the face of British bayonets.
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Guilford Court House.

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-little crossroads in North Carolina

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Yorktown

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-The scene of Cornwallis’ humiliating defeat

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Marquis de Lafayette

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-Commanded the outnumbered Continental forces in Virginia

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Surrender of Yorktown

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-Cornwallis yielded to the inevitable, asking for terms of surrender on October 17, 1781.

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Treaty of Paris

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  • signed on September 3, 1783.
  • acknowledged that the colonies were indeed independent.
  • The United States was awarded all the land east of the Mississippi River with the exception of Florida, which returned to Spanish control.