People
Commander of the Continental Army
George Washington
Washington's surprise attack after crossing the Delware was in this place
Trenton, NJ
Letter sent to King George by Congresss
Olive Branch petition
Impact on religion
1. Americans began to question state-sponsored religion
2. Congressional churches became less popular
3. Some denominations spread the gospel and grew.
4. False teaching grew
Loyalists
Colonists who opposed fighting the British
General who betrayed America
Benedict Arnold
Valley Forge
Where the Continental Army spent winter of 77-78 freezing, starving, and undersupplied, with low morale.
Refused to read and called the colonists "enemies"
King George's reaction to the Olive Branch Petition
Impact on views of slavery
1. More Americans wondered how slavery was consistent with the ideas of liberty they'd fought for.
2. Some states began abolishing slavery
3. Slave trade was prohibited
Keeping ships form entering or leaving port
blockade
Most famous American naval office of the war
John Paul Jones
Fort Ticonderoga
Wrote the majority of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Impact on traditional ways of life
1. Increased equality amongst family members
2. As authorities lost influence, society lost traditional values and more immoral behavior was normalized
Colonists who favored fighting the British
Patriots
Wrote "Common Sense"
Thomas Paine
French volunteer who commanded at Yorktown
Marquis de Lafayette
Treaty that ended the war
Treaty of Paris
How some Loyalists were treated during the war
thousands were assaulted, imprisoned without trial, or had property confiscated
American spy captured and hung by the British
Nathan Hale
The victory that convinced the French to join the Americans
Saratoga
Reasons for being Loyalists, Patriots, or neutral
Loyalists-
1. feared fighting would lead to civil war and ruin
2. saw king as God's authority
3. Feared leaving Britain would end profitable trade
4. Family connections
Patriots-
1. Believed their right to representative government was threatened.
2. Afraid that the Church of England would threaten religious freedom
3. Colonists had established and submitted to their own governments, not the King,
4. Believed the taxes were hurting them financially
Neutral-
1. Feared losing business from either side
2. Not concerned about the conflict until it directly effected them
3. Some were pacifists and opposed war.