Battles of the War
The main military strategy of the British in the Revolutionary War was to capture these dense population centers.
What are the cities?
This primary document states: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This group of pacifists often had their property confiscated because they refused to fight in the war.
Who are the Quakers?
John Green notes the massive irony of American colonists calling themselves "slaves" to British taxes while doing this.
What is actually enslaving people?
The decline of these two forms of non-slave, unfree labor directly followed the economic and philosophical shifts of the Revolution.
What are apprenticeship and indentured servitude?
On Christmas morning, Washington famously led his troops across this river to pull off a surprise victory at Trenton.
What is the Delaware River?
When colonies became states, they created new constitutions that significantly lowered these qualifications, expanding the voter pool.
What are property qualifications?
This Native American tribe split from the broader Iroquois Confederacy to fight alongside the American Patriots.
Who are the Oneidas?
In 1775, this British Governor of Virginia promised freedom to any slave who deserted their master to fight for the King.
Who is Lord Dunmore?
This is John Green's literal definition of a revolution, used to joke that the French Revolution just put them. back where they started
What is a 360-degree turn?
This northern battle is considered the most important of the war because the major British defeat convinced the French to assist the Americans.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Thomas Jefferson famously called for a "wall of separation" between these two pillars of society.
What are church and state?
This colonial woman famously disguised herself as a man so she could step onto the battlefield and fight.
Who is Deborah Sampson?
He was one of the very few white founders to argue that there could be no true American liberty unless the slaves were also freed.
Who is James Otis?
Slavery was actually on the decline in the American South until this man changed history by inventing the cotton gin in 1793.
Who is Eli Whitney?
The Continental soldiers had low morale and poor rations while enduring a famously miserable winter at this encampment.
What is Valley Forge?
Many of the founding fathers, including Thomas Jefferson, subscribed to this religious belief that God created the world but then stepped away.
What is Deism?
This ideology held that women needed to be well-educated so they could instruct their sons in the principles of liberty
What is Republican Motherhood?
Political theorist John Locke directly equated liberty with this concept, making it legally difficult for a property-based revolution to abolish slavery.
What is porperty?
John Green successfully guesses this famous lexicographer as the author of the progressive "Mystery Document" regarding wealth distribution.
Who is Noah Webster?
The British surrendered the war at this final major battle in 1781 after Lord Cornwallis trapped his troops on a peninsula.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
According to Gordon Wood, the truly radical idea to emerge from the war was American equality, meaning this factor does not dictate a person's destiny.
What is birth? (Or, being born into a specific class)
Divisions over the war fractured this Native American tribe along age lines, with younger chiefs backing the British and older chiefs siding with the Americans.
Who are the Cherokees?
Between 1777 and 1804, all states north of this specific boundary line took measures to gradually abolish slavery.
What is Maryland?
Because the French bankrupted themselves helping the Americans win their independence, the US jokingly named this popular food after them.
What are French Fries?