Libby,+Dayne,+and+Cory


 * Libby- ﻿purple ﻿Dayne- ﻿ blue ﻿Cory- ﻿green ﻿ **

-Olive Branch -Enlist -Continental -Mercenary
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__**Chapter #8 Lesson #1﻿**__
 * __The War for Independence__ **

__**﻿At war with the homeland**__ __**The second continental congress**__ __**The contenental army**__ __**﻿﻿The British Advantage**__
 * The contental congress hed a meeting in Philadelphia,May 1775.
 * Colenies sent Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, George Washington, and Patrick Henry.
 * __Olive branches__ stood for piece since ancient times. [[image:http://aphistory2010.yolasite.com/resources/war-of-1812-battle-of-new-orleans.jpg?timestamp=1254655255218 width="277" height="197" align="right"]]
 * The second __continental__ decided to form a colonial army.
 * The second contenental congress came to stand for new unity of the 13 colonies ﻿.
 * The battle of Bunker Hill,Boston,June 17,1775.
 * General Goerge Washington arrived in Massachusetts.
 * 14,500 soldiers wore only ordinary clothes.
 * Contenentals made the first colonial army ﻿.
 * __Mercenaries__ were hired soldirs.
 * Most of the americans were __enlisted.__
 * Continentals go home when harvesting came.
 * Politics about government are called politicial cartoons. [[image:http://rpmedia.ask.com/ts?u=/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Congress_voting_independence.jpg/250px-Congress_voting_independence.jpg width="256" height="184" align="right"]]

-Revolution -Declaration -Independence -Grievance -Allesiance
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__**Chapter #8 Lesson #2**__ __**The Decision For Independence**__

__**The first steps**__
 * In January 1776 Paine published //common sense.//
 * __Revolution__ is a sudden complete change in goverment.
 * __Indepencence__ is freedom to govern on one's own.
 * __Allegianc__ means loyalty.
 * __Declaration__ means ﻿official state ment of independence.
 * Jefferson wrote and rewrote the document that would become the Declaration of Independence.

__**Writing the Declaration**__


 * Jefferson wanted to help one colonists to freedom.
 * Jefferson planned the declaration in seven parts.
 * __Grievances__ complains to an unfair practices.[[image:http://moralheroes.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/thomas-jefferson.jpg width="184" height="240" align="right"]]
 * When Jefferson finished The [|Declaration of Independence]he sent it to congress.

__Vocabulary Box__ -Neutral -Encroach -Pacifist -Regiment -Movement

**__Chapter #8 ﻿Lesson #3__** **__Americans Taking Sides__**

**__Churches and War__** __﻿__ __**Women in war**__
 * Many factors affected peoples views of independence.
 * __Neutral__ taking neither sides.
 * __Pacifists__ believers in peaceful settlements.
 * __Movement__ effort in many people.
 * Women took part in fighting.
 * Some women raised groups to raise money for war.
 * Phillis Wheatley wrote poems that praised George Washington.

**__Native Americans and the War__**
 * __Enroach__ traditional idian lands.
 * Land between Appilation Moutains was taken by Europians.
 * Most indians fought for America.

__Africans ﻿and the War__
 * Free Africans took sides with Continetal army.
 * Enslaved Africans in the war were promised freedom.
 * __Regionment__ is a large group of shoulders.

**__Chapter #8 Lesson #4__** **__[|Samuels Choice]__**


 * Samuel Abraham is offered to fight in the war with George Washington.
 * Samuel and Sana had to take a rope across the ocean to guide the soldiers.
 * The ship he is using is falling apart.
 * Samuel and Sana made it back it were rewarded there freedom.

**__Vocabulary__** -Siege -Treaty -Negotiate

**__Chapter #8 Lesson #5__** **__Victory and Indepence__**

**__Help from Other Lands__**


 * They won important battles at Princeton,Trenton.
 * December 1777 General Washington set up headquarters at Vally Forge.
 * Von Steuben reported Washington and took the job of drilling the continental army.
 * A __siege__ is a long lasting attack.

**__Victory at Indepence__**
 * British army leaders moved their attack from the Northern to the Southern colonies.
 * During 1781 the fighting centured in Virginia.
 * By late summer of 1781, British General Charles Cornwallis had set up at Yorktown.
 * The Partiots won after a long and hard fight.

**__The Treaty of Paris__**
 * Treaty agreement between countries.
 * Work on the __treaty__ began in April, 1782.
 * British parliament gave money to peoples homes that were destroyed in the war.
 * __Neotiated__ talked with one another to work on an agreement