Securing Independence
The name of the army which fought against Britain in the Revolutionary War
What is the Continental Army?
This group of people experienced challenges to their ways of life and political discrimination following the Revolutionary War
What are Loyalists?
The population of enslaved people in the American colonies had grown to this amount by 1776
What is 500,000, or 1/5 of the population?
The amount of votes each state had in the AoC congress
What is one?
The university where Ms. Harris went for her Bachelor's Degree in History and her Master's Degree in Education
What is Rutgers University?
George Washington read this pamphlet to his troops to re-inspire them before the Battles of Trenton and Princeton after a series of failures in 1776
What is The American Crisis?
This woman disguised herself as a man in order to fight in the Continental army
Who is Deborah Sampson?
This group was unique for critiquing and standing against slavery prior to the Revolutionary War
Who are Quakers?
The number of votes needed to amend the the Articles of Confederation
What is 13? (one of each state)
Ms. Harris' favorite movie
What is Sister Act?
The British exploited social tensions in this part of the 13 colonies
What is the South?
Native Americans adopted the American cause of liberty following this.
Encroachment on their lands following the Revolutionary War
This British legislation offered emancipation to enslaved Black Americans who joined the British army
What is Lord Dunmore's Proclamation of 1775?
Shay's Rebellion took place in this state
What is Massachusetts?
Ms. Harris played this instrument in middle school
What is the flute?
This document officially ended the Revolutionary War
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This political ideology encouraged American women to have and raise as many children as possible in order to train gurute citizens in "national morality"
What is republican motherhood?
This is the name for the arguments for emancipation that were presented by enslaved people to courts and legislatures in New England
What are freedom petitions?
This is the AoC's greatest success
What is establishing control over lands west of the Mississippi?
Ms. Harris' birthday
What is February 28th?
This Frenchman was imperative in American success at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
Because the marriage contract superseded the social contract, women could never be expected to rebel against this person.
Who is their husband?
The name for the process through which many in the upper South, particularly Virginia and Maryland, freed enslaved people in the wake of the Revolutionary War
What is voluntary emancipation?
By protesting their government and its economic practices, those acting out Shay's Rebellion believed they were emulating this
What is the Revolutionary War?
When she was four years old, Ms. Harris broke two bones in this part of her body.
What is an arm?