APUSH Chapter 8 - America Secedes from the Empire Flashcards
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| 1220579636 | George Washington | General of the colonial army during the Revolutionary War. | 1 | |
| 1220579637 | William Howe | Noteable General for the English and Washington's rival. | 2 | |
| 1220579638 | Nathanial Greene | A Quaker general made known by his trategy of delay. | 3 | |
| 1220579639 | Bendedict Arnold | A general of the Colonial Army turned traitor who agreed to sell out West Point to the English. | 4 | |
| 1220579640 | John Burgoyne | English general who was charged with the invasion and capture of the Hudson River Valley. | 5 | |
| 1220579641 | Charles Cornwallis | British general who surrendered and lost the war in Yorktown. | 6 | |
| 1220579642 | Thomas Paine | A radical Patriot who wroe Common Sense. | 7 | |
| 1220579643 | Barry St. Leger | A British general who invaded the Hudson River Valley by way of Lake Onterio. | 8 | |
| 1220579644 | George Rogers Clark | A frontiersman who, along with others, attacked isolated British forts on the frontier. | 9 | |
| 1220579645 | Richard Henry Lee | Man who resolved that a formal decleration of independece was needed. | 10 | |
| 1220579646 | Horatio Gates | An American general who defeated Burgoyne at Saratoga. | 11 | |
| 1220579647 | John Paul Jones | A young Scotsman who led part of the newly established American Navy. | 12 | |
| 1220579648 | Thomas Jefferson | Virginian lawyer and writer of the Decleration of Independence. | 13 | |
| 1220579649 | Marquis de Lafayette | A ninteen year old French general in the Colonial Army. | 14 | |
| 1220579650 | Admiral de Grasse | A french admiral who suggested that we attack Cornwallis at Yorktown. | 15 | |
| 1220579651 | Patrick Henry | Patroit who stood before the Virginian Assembly and said "give me liberty or give me death." | 16 | |
| 1220579652 | Comte de Rochambeau | French general in Newport, Rhode Island who boosted colonial morale. | 17 | |
| 1220579653 | John Jay | A delegate from New York sent to work on the Treaty of Paris: he didn't trust the French. | 18 | |
| 1220579654 | mercenaries | Professional soldiers who serve in a foreign army for pay. | 19 | |
| 1220579655 | natural rights | Rights that every person should have and use. | 20 | |
| 1220579656 | privateering | Boarding smugglers' ships in the name of one's country. | 21 | |
| 1220579657 | Second Continental Congress | Selected George Washington to be general of the army, drafted appeals to the king, and raised money for an army. | 22 | |
| 1220579658 | Common Sense | Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that supported a rebublic over a monarchy. | 23 | |
| 1220579659 | Decleration of Independence | A document written by the 13 colonies that stated the Independence of America from England. | 24 | |
| 1220579660 | Loyalist/Tories | Those who remained loyal to the King and England/ a conservative member of Parliament. | 25 | |
| 1220579661 | Patroits/Whigs | Those who didn't like what the King and England stood for/ a liberal member of Parliament. | 26 | |
| 1220579662 | Treay of Paris (1783) | Treaty where England broke ties from America and America became a country. | 27 |