Elizabeth,+Gina,+and+Connor

=**﻿ ﻿ ﻿ ﻿ ﻿﻿Elizabeth-Blue, ﻿Connor-Red, ﻿﻿Gina-pink! **= =**﻿Chapter 8** = =The War for Independence﻿ = ==At War with the Homela ﻿ nd ==
 * Fighting at [|Lexington and Concord]
 * Contenential Congress met May 1775 in Philedelphia
 * Sent Benjamen Franklin, John Hancock, Samule Adams, John Adams, George Washington and Patrick Henry

The Second Contenential Congress
=<span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">﻿ <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">﻿The ﻿Continetal Congress =
 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Patriots sent a [|olive branch] petition to King George III
 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Congress chooses George Washington to be General of Army
 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Money is given to the army for guns,bullets, food and uniforms
 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Patrick Henry says "The distinctions between Virginians,Pennsylvanians and New Yorkers are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American"
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Battle of Bunker Hill]took place in Boston on June,17 1775 <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[[image:5_1.jpg width="263" height="171" align="right" caption="Battle of Bunker Hill 1775"]]
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">14,500 soldiers wore oridanry not uniforms
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Soilders were callled [|continentals]
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Had little money but went to war against the most powerful army in the world

<span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The British Advantage

 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Washington's army had first time soldiers, the British army had professional soldiers
 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">British had to fight a war that was 3,000 miles away from home
 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">British had 50,000 soldiers and [|mercenaries]at one time, Washington's army had 10,000 soldiers [|enlisted] at one time[[image:Warren-Mercy-Otis.jpg align="right" caption="Mercy Otis Warren was an American writer during the American Revolution"]]

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<span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Decision for Independence

 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Many colonists believed that their problems with the British could be settled without fighting
 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">They hoped the King and Parliment would let them take part in making laws
 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">By 1776 that thinking began to change, colonists prepared for a longer war

<span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The First Steps

 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In January 1776 Thomas Paine published a pamphlet he called "Common Sense"
 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">After nearly a yearf work the idea of independence sounded good to many colonists
 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Not all colonies were ready for independence
 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Thomas Jefferson was the leader of the [|Patriots] in Virginia
 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">two years before, he had written a summary view of the war

===<span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Writing the Declaration ===
 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Thomas had to state the facts for independence
 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Jefferson planned the [|Declaration of Independence] in several parts
 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Jefferson said "We hold these truths to be selfevident, that all men are created equal, that they are provided . . . . . ."
 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">He listed the ways the colonists had tried to settle
 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Jefferson wrote "We therfore, . . . . . in home, and by athority."

<span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Americans Take Sides
<span style="color: #ff0015; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="color: #ff0015; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Churches and the War
 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">People had to decide if they would support the rebbles
 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The fighting became a much civil war as it was the war with the British <span style="color: #ff0015; font-family: Georgia,serif;">
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">﻿Lutheran minister saw before his eyes,he tore off his church robe to show the uniform.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Members of the sociaty of friend would not fight in the war for independence

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Women and War
 * <span style="color: #ff0015; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Women in Boston and other colonial towns banded together
 * <span style="color: #ff0015; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Some women from groups to raise money for the war
 * <span style="color: #ff0015; font-family: Georgia,serif;">﻿﻿In Lanchester,Pennsylvania,women formed group that was called Unmarried Laides of America
 * <span style="color: #ff0015; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Women also took part in fighting like a women named,Mary Ludwig Hays
 * <span style="color: #ff0015; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Phillis Wheatly]wrote poems that were praised by George Washington

<span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Native Americans and the War

 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Oneida chief said "We have heard of the unhappy differences
 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1776- the land near the Appalachin Mountains and the Mississippi was being taken by Europeans
 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Many Native Americans had come to depend on the Europeans
 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Most Native Americans did not take sides[[image:http://solcomhouse.com/images/SalemPoor.gif width="145" height="197" align="right" caption="Peter Salem was in the Revolutionary War and the Battle of Bunker Hill" link="http://www.celebrateboston.com/biography/peter-salem.htm"]]

<span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Africans and the War

 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Peter Salem] was among at least five Africans who fought at Concord with Minutemen
 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Africans changed their names to Cuff Freedom, Dick Freedom, Ned Freedom, Peter Freemank, Cuff Liberty, Jeffery Liberty, and Pomp Liberty
 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In a few weeks nearly 300 runaway slaves were enlisted

//<span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Samuel's Choice //
===//<span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Samuel's Choice //<span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">is about a young boy who can help the Patriots defeat the British soldiers in the Revolutionary war. It is a story about a life or death situation that leads to a heart warming ending! To read different articles go to [|http://www.hbschool.com] then click on the learning site and click on social studies. From there click on Harcourt Brace Social Studies and then click United States. Last Unit 4. ===

<span style="color: #ff0500; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Victory and Independence

 * ===<span style="color: #ff0500; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Partiots won the battle between Trenton and Princeton ===

<span style="color: #ff0500; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Help From Other Lands

 * <span style="color: #ff0500; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Patriots recieved some help from different countries
 * <span style="color: #ff0500; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Fiedrich Wilhelm von Steuben] reported to Washington
 * <span style="color: #ff0500; font-family: Georgia,serif;">﻿Continental congress had sent Benjamin Franklin to Paris
 * <span style="color: #ff0500; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Franklin talked with french leaders for months
 * <span style="color: #ff0500; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Sara Toga showed french show that there is achance of then winning
 * <span style="color: #ff0500; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Jorge Farragut fought in both of the continental army and navy

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Battle of Yorktown

 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">British army leaders from the northern colonies to the southern colonies
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">During 1781 the fighting centered in virgina
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Arnold was a traitor-he acted against his country
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The french joined forces with the continetals
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cornwallis sent word to his commanded
 * <span style="color: #ff0500; font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">American soldiers heard the drums and stopped playing the [|fife]
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tough fighting dragged on in some places for two years

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Treaty of Paris

 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Battle of Yorktown did not end the Revolutionary War
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Work on the treaty began in April 1782 when the British sent [|Richard Oswald], a wealthy merchant, to Paris to talk with [|Benjamin Franklin]
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Franklin gave Oswald the American terms- that is, what the Americans wanted in the treaty

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