What is movtive of Washington reading Thomas Paine's "The Crisis" to his troops?
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Wanted the slaves to join them in the fight.
What functions did the British want African slaves to play in the Revolution?
100
Florida, Georgia & South Carolina. Charlestown & Savannah.
What three southern states and two southern port cities did the British take control of?
200
Authored the pamphlet Common Sense, where he ridiculed the very idea of rule by Kings.
Who is Thomas Paine
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It describes the people's right to create a new government in the event current government has failed.
What is the motive (reasons behind) Thomas Jefferson writing about the Protection of Natural Rights?
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The ned for additional soldiers.
What ideas justify the use of British mercenaries?
200
Civilians are people not in the military & enlisted are people who signed up for duty.
How are civilians and enlisted Americans different from one another?
200
A person who turns against one side to help another. He was hated in Britain for the rest of his life.
Benedict Arnold was considered a traitor. What is a traitor? And what happened after he left America?
300
The idea of freedom from the rule of Britain.
What ideas justify the creation of the Declaration of Independence?
300
What is lodging troops in their homes.
What is the quartering of large bodies of troops?
300
As a major turning point in the American Revolution.
How would you classify the Battle of Saratoga?
300
They feared American victory would mean more settlers moving west and south.
What was the motive behind Native Americans siding with the British?
300
He thought that the British fleet would reinforce his position.
What ideas did Gen. Cornwallis have that justified his going to the Yorktown pennisula?
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Changed from a fight for fairness to a fight to create a new nation.
Compare the colonists reasons for fighting the American Revolution before and after the Declaration of Independence? What were they fighting for before the document and after the document.
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The Declaration states the power of the states in America.
What ideas justify the colonists idea of rectitude, or justness, of their cause?
400
French secretly gave arms to the americans, Kosciusko engineered forts & Baron Von Steuben trained american soldiers.
Categorize the assistance given by Europeans to the Americans during the Revolution? Explain what they did to help Americans.
400
They contributed 7 million dollars to the Americans which alloed Washington's army to continue fighting.
What inferences can you make about the "Havana Ladies"?
400
The declaration declared independence while the Treaty acknowledged it formally.
What the relationship between the Delcaration of Independence and the Treaty of Paris?
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First, he discussed Natural Rights. Second, list of grievances and third dissolving the bonds.
What is the order of steps that Thomas Jefferson took in writing the three sections of the Declaration of Independence?
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The relationship is that the colonists refuse to give up what they believed was priceless.
What is the relationship between the idea of relinquishing and the idea of inestimable rights, according to the Declaration on page 176?
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British threat to New England.
What did American victory at Saratoga end for the British?
500
They helped in attacking British ships in the ocean.
How did the use of privateers in the Continental Navy assist with American battles at sea?
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It sparked other movements for freedom in European Nations.
Now that you have studied the American Revoultion, what can be concluded about its impact on Europe?