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What occurred in the Second Continental Congress?

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All thirteen colonies met in Philadelphia drafting appeals to the British and the King, raised money, create new army

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What was George Washington selected to do?

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To go to Boston to lead the improvised army

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Why did people (troops) trust George Washington?

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They sense that when he put himself at the head of the cause, he prepared to go down with the ship

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Who surprised and captured the British at Ticonderoga and Crown Point in New York?

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A small American force under Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold

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What was the hill the Colonists seized called?

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Bunker Hill (Breed’s hill)

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What is the Oliver Branch Petition the Congress adopted?

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Professing American loyalty to the crown and begging the king to prevent super hostilities

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Why did the King reuse to stop the hostilities?

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Due to the colonists victory at Bunker Hill

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Who were the troops the king sealed arrangements to crush the rebels?

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German troops

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What did the Americans call the German soldiers who were hired by the King?

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Hessians

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What were Hessians more interested in than duty?

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Messing around

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Why did some Hessians deserted the King and became citizens of America?

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They were seduced by American promises of land

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How did the Americans retaliate to the British burning Falmouth (Portland) Maine?

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Undertook a two-prolonged invasion of Canada

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Who pushed up the Lake Champlain route and captured Montreal?

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General Richard Montgomery

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What did the men of General Benedict Arnold had to resort to eat?

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Dogs and shoe leather

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Did the Americans successfully invade Canada?

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No, Montgomery was killed, Arnold was wounded, and retreated in St. Lawrence River

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Who set fire to the Virginia town of Norfolk?

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The British

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Who won the battle at Moore’s Creek Bridge in North Carolina?

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The colonists

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Who won at the Charleston harbor when the British invaded?

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The colonists

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What happened to Irish rebels ?

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They were hanged, drawn or quarted

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What was the Common Sense?

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Thomas Paine sparked independence for America in a Pamphlet

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What did Paine also call for?

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A republic or where power flown from the people not from a corrupt and despotic monarch

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Where did Paine believe governors, senators, and judges must be derived from?

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From the people

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Why did individuals in a republic have to give up their own personal-self interests?

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Political power no longer belonged to the King

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What did Richard Henry Lee say?

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That United colonies have the right to be free independent colonies

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What was the passing of Lee's resolution and what did it do?
The declaration of Independence by the colonies and cut British ties
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When was the Declaration of Independence approved and who wrote it?
July 4, 1776 and Thomas Jefferson
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What was the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
A declaration that was officially born thirteen years later
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Loyalists made up what percentage in the colonies at the time?
16%
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Who mostly remained loyal and why?
Educated and rich people because they were scared violent change would make things worse
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Loyalists were numerous where?
Where the Anglican church was the strongest?
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Rebels were numerous where?
New England where Presbyterianism and congregationalism flourished
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How were loyalists treated after the Declaration of Independence?
Imprisoned or hanged
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What was the Battle of Long Island?
British won due to being outnumbered and outmaneuvered
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What happened at Trenton?
Captured a thousand of Hessians who were sleeping off their Christmas celebration
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What did Arnold do while British stopped to construct a sizable fleet?
He assembled and fitted out every float-able vessel
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Why did the British have to retire in Canada?
Winter was coming
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How did General Burgoyne start his invasion?
He started with seven thousand troops, hindered with baggage train, and many women were his officers
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Why did General Howe raise eyebrows?
He embarked with the British army for an attack on Philadelphia instead of starting at Hudson river
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What did General Howe want to do to gain General Burgoyne's trust?
He wanted to force general engagement with Washington's army and destroy it
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What two battles was George Washington defeated in?
Brandywine Creek and Germantown in Philadelphia
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Who helped Washington and his army?
Baron Von Steuben
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Where was Burgoyne forced to surrender?
Saratoga to the American general Horatio Gates
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What was France eager for?
To inflame the quarrel that had broken out in America
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What did Americans want to end?
Colonialism and mercantilism
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What did Americans support?
Free trade and freedom
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What did Americans hope to substitute?
The rule of law for the ancient reliance on raw power to arbitrate the affair of nations
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What does the new republic's seal "novus ordo seculorum" mean?
A new order for the ages
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What did the Continental congress in the summer draft?
Model treaty
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What is the Model Treaty?
To guide the American commissioners it was about to dispatch to the French court
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What is John Adam's principles?
No political connection, no military connection, and only a commercial connection
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Why were the Power Heads of Paris shocked at how Benjamin Franklin dressed?
He dressed plainly, but the Parisians adored him
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What did the British Parliament offer?
Home rule within the empire except independence
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What did France offer to America to their treaty of alliance?
Official recognition of America's independence and lent powerful military
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What did Catherine the Great do as a result of neutrals asking for more respect for their rights?
She lead in organizing the Armed Neutrality
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What was the Armed Neutrality?
A lineup of almost all the remaining European neutrals in an attitude of passive hostility toward Britain
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Where was the war being fought?
Europe, North America, South America, the Caribbean and Asia
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When did America achieve independence?
When the World War became too big for Britain to handle
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Who attacked the redcoats at Monmouth, New Jersey?
General Washington

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