APUSH Chapter 8 Terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Second Continental Congress | John Adams nominates George Washington as general; declaration of independence |
| Bunker Hill | first battle of America between William Prescott and General Howe where the Americans where on a hill and shot at British but where defeated. however, they won on moral |
| Olive Branch Petition 1775 | the second continental congress's last ditch act for peace in which they asked for the British to revoke the Intolerable Acts |
| Thomas Paine and Common Sense 1776 | a young radical wrote a pamphlet that asked why was the Americans governed by British, which was a smaller country than the colonies and also called the king a royal brute of Great Britian |
| Declaration of Independence | statement to justify independence of the Americas |
| Patriots/Whigs | conservatives who were for the revolution |
| Tories | a part of the British Parliament that was against the revolution in the colonies |
| General Burgoyne | British general during Saratopa battle in which he was to go down the Hudson River and to Montreal but failed and was forced to surrender and sign the "Convention of Saratoga" |
| General Benedict Arnold | an American general in the Quebec siege |
| Arnold's Treason 1780 | Benedict Arnold was offered money and rank from the British if he gave away military secrets of West Point, which he did |
| British war strategy | to take over New England, block the continent from trade, and move down the South |
| Admiral John Paul Jones | general of American navy |
| Yorktown 1781 | last battle of American Revolution when the British General Cornwallis settles in Yorktown and which is then later sieged by Washington and Rochambeau and pushed the British to the coast where the French navy blocked them and the British were surrounded and surrendered |
| Admiral de Grasse | French navy leader who helped the Americans during the battle in Yorktown |
| Treaty of Paris 1783 | Treaty that officially ended the war of the American Revolution which recognized America as an independent country from the Atlantic to the Mississippi river and gave them fishing rights at Newfoundland, compensated the Loyalists for their land, British troops removal out of US, Florida to Spain, and US had to pay back their pre-war debt owed to Engalnd |
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