ARev!

Question 1

Battle of Saratoga

Answer 1

British General Burgoyne is super slow Bc of wives and clearing a forest path
In the end, trapped and forced to surrender at Saratoga

Major defeat for Britain!! Revives colonial spirit and Signals to the french that America is probably going to win-> they send aid

Question 2

Loyalists

Answer 2

Rich condescending people loyal to crown
Ethnic minorities trying to avoid prejudice or African Americans tryna escape bondage
Veterans of 7 years war, etc

Most stayed in America but were viewed as traitors, could be arrested or had their property taken
The ones that went to Britain were viewed as a lower class 
However, some like Hugh Gaine were able to reintegrate themselves into the colonies through idea of federalism

Question 3

Treaty of fort stanwix

Answer 3

Pro british Iroquois ceded most of their land to US after they were beaten in 1784

First treaty between US and an Indian nation

Question 4

Battle of Yorktown

1781

Answer 4

British Cornwallis retreats to Chesapeake bay Bc he thinks Britain controls the ocean
French navy and french/washingtons army trapped him and he surrendered all his men

Even though george III continued to fight for another year, it was a huuuge triumph for the colonies

Question 5

Treaty of Paris

Answer 5

Ben Franklin, John Adams, and John jay meet with England
They suspect that france wants to keep America weak so that they can control it and give land to Spain-> they go behind France’s back

Results- america gets tons of land (until the Mississippi), has to not persecute loyalists, and actually france is ok with the treaty

Question 6

Thomas Paine

Answer 6

Wrote the pamphlet common sense. Says Britain shouldn’t control America and that the king is a “royal brute”
120,000 copies sold
Called for creation of a republic

Ended inconsistencies among Americans- now they want independence!

Question 7

Virginia statute for religious freedom

Answer 7

Written by Thomas Jefferson
Disestablished Church of England in VA and granted complete religious freedom

Forerunner of religious freedom in the first amendment!! And created separation of church and state

Question 8

Republican motherhood

Answer 8

Selfless devotion of a mother=model for civic virtue in a republic

Sig? Elevated women to role of keepers of nations conscience and expanded educational opportunities for women

Question 9

2nd continental congress

Answer 9

Wrote the Declaration of Independence

Dig- official start of United States on paper