Chapter 8 of the American Pageant for AP US History
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| 1683642329 | Second Continental Congress | Group of delegates who met in Philadelphia to continue addressing colonial grievances to the king and Parliament; drafted new appeals to the British people and king. Also adopted measures to raise money and create an army and navy | 0 | |
| 1683642330 | George Washington | Chosen by fellow delegates to head the continental army | 1 | |
| 1683642331 | Bunker Hill | Seized by colonists in June 1775 from which they menaced the enemy in Boston | 2 | |
| 1683642332 | Olive Branch Petition | Professed American loyalty to the crown and begged the king to prevent further hostilities | 3 | |
| 1683642333 | Hessians | American slang for the German troops under British command | 4 | |
| 1683642334 | Falmouth, Maine | Burned by the British in October of 1775 | 5 | |
| 1683642335 | Richard Montgomery | General who pushed up the Lake Champlain route and captured Montreal, Canada | 6 | |
| 1683642336 | Norfolk, Virginia | Burned by the British in January 1776 | 7 | |
| 1683642337 | Common Sense | Pamphlet written in 1776 by Thomas Paine | 8 | |
| 1683642338 | Thomas Paine | Author of the influential Common Sense | 9 | |
| 1683642339 | Republic | Type of society where power flows from the people themselves | 10 | |
| 1683642340 | Richard Henry Lee | Moved that "these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states." | 11 | |
| 1683642341 | Thomas Jefferson | Virginian lawyer chosen to prepare a more formal statement of declaration | 12 | |
| 1683642342 | Declaration of Independence | Formal declaration of independence from Britain, approved by Congress on July 4, 1776 | 13 | |
| 1683642343 | Loyalists | Colonials loyal to the king | 14 | |
| 1683642344 | Patriots | American rebels | 15 | |
| 1683642345 | Johnny Burgoyne | Actor-playwright-soldier who would push down the Lake Champlain route from Canada in order to capture the Hudson River valley from the colonists | 16 | |
| 1683642346 | Benedict Arnold | Colonial general who repulsed British troops at Quebec (1775) and Lake Champlain (1776), turned traitor | 17 | |
| 1683642347 | Saratoga | Battle in which Burgoyne was forced to surrender his entire command on October 17, 1777 to American general Horatio Gates | 18 | |
| 1683642348 | Charleston | Colonial city captured that was crippling | 19 | |
| 1683642349 | Treaty of Fort Stanwix | First treaty between the United States and an Indian nation | 20 | |
| 1683642350 | George Rogers Clark | Floated down the Ohio River and captured the forts Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and Vincennes | 21 | |
| 1683642351 | Admiral de Grasse | Joined the Americans in an assault on Cornwallis at Yorktown | 22 | |
| 1683642352 | John Jay | Percieved the French could not satisfy the conflicting ambitions of both Americans and Spaniards | 23 | |
| 1683642353 | Treaty of Paris of 1783 | The British formally recognized the independence of the United States, and granted generous boundaries of land | 24 |
