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Revolutionary War Era Flashcards

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Proclamation of Rebellion

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King George

August 1775

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Olive Branch Petition

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Colonists> King George lll

July 1775

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Thomas Paine wrote

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Common Sense

Jan 1776

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Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms

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Continental Congress

July 1775

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Prohibitory Act

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Parliament

Dec 1775

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Richard Henry Lee

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Led the resolution to break from England

Jun 1776

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Thomas Jefferson

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Led the committee preparing Declaration of Independence

July 4, 1776

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John Locke

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Social contract form of government

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William Blackstone

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Wrote Commentaries on the Laws of England

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Patriots

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Whigs

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Loyalists

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Tories

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Haym Solomon

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Polish Jew broker, funded war

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Sir William Howe

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British general

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Admiral Lord Richard Howe

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General Howe’s bro, commander of British navy

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Gen. Cornwallis

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Defeated BY Washington 1777 at Princeton

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Patriot General Nic Herkimer

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Won Battle of Oriskany

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Saratoga, turning point of war

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Gen. H. Gates defeated Gen. J. Burgoyne

Oct 1777

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Brandywine, Germantown, Philadelphia

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Conquered by General Howe by 1777

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Valley Forge

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Winter of 1777-8

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Sir Henry Clinton

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New commander of British army

Spring 1778

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Patriot George Rogers Clark

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Seized Kaskaskia and Cahokia

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John Paul Jones

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Irish privateer

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John Barry

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Scotch privateer

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Savannah

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Taken by Cornwallis

1778

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Charleston

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Taken by Cornwallis

1780

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Camden, SC

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Gen. Gates defeated

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Francis Marion

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“Swamp Fox”

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General Thomas Sumpter

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“Fighting Game Cock”

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“Mad Anthony Wayne”

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Patriot, seized Stony Point

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Battle of Kings Mountain

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Patriots stopped Brit invasion of NC

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Gen. Nathanael Greene

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“Fighting Quaker”

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Admiral de Grasse

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Helped defeat Cornwallis at Yorktown by blocking Chesapeake Bay

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Count Rochambeau

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French, helped Washington defeat Cornwallis at Yorktown

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Benedict Arnold

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Tried to traitorously give away West Point Ft.

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Treaty of Paris

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1783

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Major John André

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Benedict Arnolds Brit accomplice

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Yorktown

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Winning battle of Rev War

1781

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