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| 993346782 | Loyalists | Also known as Tories, these colonists maintained their allegiance to the king. Almost 60,000 fought and died next to British soldiers, supplied them with arms and food, and joined in raiding parties that pillaged Patriot homes and farms. In New York, New Jersey, and Georgia, they were probably in the majority. Toward the end of the war, about 80,000 emigrated to Canada or Britain rather than face persecution at the hands of the Patriots. They tended to be wealthier and more conservative. | 0 | |
| 993346783 | Joseph Galloway | This influential politician in colonial Pennsylvania served in the First Continental Congress in 1774. In an effort to defuse the growing political crisis, he proposed a plan of imperial union with Great Britain in which the British Parliament and a Colonial Congress would both have to approve colonial legislation. But as Americans grew more radical and pushed for independence, the congress as a whole rejected his compromise proposal by a vote of six colonies to five. | 1 | |
| 993346784 | Slaves and the War | Slaves would be allowed freedom if they enlisted to fight in the war. 5,000 enlisted in state militias, Continental Army, and navy. | 2 | |
| 993346785 | Thomas Jeremiah | a free black in Charleston who was executed in 1775 after Patriot leaders accused him of conspiring to smuggle British guns to South Carolina slaves. | 3 | |
| 993346786 | The Dunsmore Declaration(1775) | declared martial law and promised freedom of slaves of American patriots who left their masters and joined the Royal forces. | 4 | |
| 993346787 | Indian Disunity | They paid the heaviest price not immediately but over a short term. During the years of conflict, Native American groups, like many others residents of North America, had to choose the loyalist or patriot cause, or maintain a neutral stance. But the Native Americans had distinctive issues all their own in trying to hold on to their homelands as well as maintain access to trade and supplies as war engulfed their lands too. When the war ended, an understanding of retribution form of welfare against the act of Great Britian position of lands, lead to the destruction of Indian of North East. | 5 | |
| 993346788 | Esther DeBerdt Reed | Active as a civic leader for soldiers relief, who formed and led the Ladies association of Philadelphia to provide aid for George Washington's troops during the war. | 6 | |
| 993346789 | Ladies Association | organization formed in 1780 by women from prominent Philadelphia families to collect money for Continental soldiers. It is an example of women's increasing engagement in political life during the Revolution. | 7 | |
| 993346790 | British War Strategy | There idea was to divide and conquer, they wanted to separate the New England colonies from the middle and southern colonies. | 8 | |
| 993346791 | General George Washington | He was appointed by the Second Continental Congress as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army in 1775. His ability to learn under duress and refusal to accept defeat kept an American army in the field. At the Battle of Yorktown in 1781 with French troop and naval support, he was able to entrap the British troops and force surrender. At the end of the war in 1783, he was the most famous man in America. | 9 | |
| 993346792 | The Battle of New York City(8/76) | 1776, summer. Washington rallied 23,000 v.s. 32,000 British troops. British won, took NY. First American loss. | 10 | |
| 993346793 | The Battle of Trenton(12/76) | Washington made a surprise attack on the German Hessian soldiers on the day after Christmas. They had a big win. The result of the win was that Washington and his troops' spirit was raised and they got a won a lot of supplies. | 11 | |
| 993346794 | The Battle of Saratoga(10/77) | October 17, 1777 - The battle took place in Saratoga, New York. The British were outnumbered and were forced to surrender. The colonist victory was a turning point in the war because it inspired the French to help the colonists fight the British. | 12 | |
| 993346795 | The Franco-American Alliance(1778) | egotiated by Ben Franklin in 1778, brought the French into the war on the side of the colonists, this alliance helped the colonists considerably, Ultimately, the colonists won a war of attrition. | 13 | |
| 993346796 | Nathaniel Green | Quaker-raised American general who employed tactics of fighting and then drawing back to recover, then attacking again. Defeated Cornwallis by thus "fighting Quaker". | 14 | |
| 993346797 | Battle of Yorktown(10/81) | was a decisive victory by a combine forces of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British army commanded by British Lord and Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis. The siege proved to be the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War. | 15 | |
| 993346798 | Treaty of Paris(1782) | signed on September 3rd 1782, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other. | 16 | |
| 993346799 | Consequences of the Revolution | Created a new GIANT nation, all land that used to belong to the crown was seized by Americans, divided and given to war veterans (creates middle class), Anglican church was disestablished, slave trade banned in 11 of 13 states. | 17 | |
| 993346800 | 1. Republican Government | is literally a form of government in which affairs of state are a "public matter," not the private concern of the rulers, in which public offices are subsequently appointed or elected rather than privately accommodated. | 18 | |
| 993346801 | 2. De-nationalization of Slavery | 90% of slavery and 90% African American lived in the South, 1 region in the country whose economic well being culture is defined by institutional slavery. However, the North economy was not based on the slaves. Gradually in the final phase of the war, the South's plantation adopted from the North to manage the slaves and Indian institution. In 19 cen, institutional slavery only in the South a regional constitution. In 1787, the confederation Congress prohibit the establishment of slavery of the new territory that Americans gained during the Revolution. | 19 | |
| 993346802 | 3. Changing status of Women | The status of women changed after the revolution. Some of the things that changed were marriage, less children, speak their minds, and education available to women. | 20 |
