Kayla,+Damanta,+Noah,+and+Dan

﻿ ﻿ Kayla - Pink, ﻿Damanta- Purple, ﻿ Noah- Green, ﻿Dan- Blue!!!  welcome to chapter #8 in social studies!! lesson # 1 at war with homeland


 * Fighting at Lexington and concord
 * met in philadelphia in may 1775
 * the most inportant colonial leaders went to the meeting to decide what to do now that the battle had been fought

[|The second coninental congress] The Continental Army
 * the congress asked all of the colonies to send soldiers to Massachusetts
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">it chose George Washington of virgina to lead this new continential army
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The Second Continential Congress asked each colony to give money to support the new army

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The british advantage
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">the Battle of the Bunker Hill, which took place in Boston on june 17,1775 [[image:http://www.britishbattles.com/images/bunker-hill/warren-dying.jpg width="235" height="144"]]
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">the british backed twice before running out of bullets
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">with little money and not much training the continentials went to war against the most powerful army in the world
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">the british had the best training the most experienced officers and newest weapons
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">while the british had baught fifty thousand soldiers general washington usually had no more than ten thousand soldiers
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">most of the americans enlisted in or joined the army for one year at a time

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Lesson #2

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The decision for independance <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The first steps <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Writing the declaration]
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">they hoped that the king and parlament would let them help make the laws
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">by 1776 thinking began to change, and the colonists prepared for a long war
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">one of the patriots who did the most to change public opinion in the colonies was Thomas Paine
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">in janurary 1776,Paine published pamphlet he called comen sence
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Thomas Paine felt people should rule themselves
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">on june 7,1776 richerd henry Lee of virginia gave a speech to congress he said "The united colonies are and of right ought to be free and independant states"
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">He went on to say that the colonies no longer owed allegiance, or loyallty to the king
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Thomas jefferson wanted his words to help the colonists to win their war for freedom
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">﻿jefferson planned the deloration in several parts
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The words he wrote in 1776 are among the most famous in american history
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">we hold these truths to be selfvident

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Lesson #3 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Americans Take Sides <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Churches and the War <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Women and War <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Native Americans and the War <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">africans and the war <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|samuel's choice] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">lesson #5
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">After the Declaration of independence was singed people had to decide if they woukd support the rebelling colonies or the british king
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">those who were neutral were willing to accpect the outcome of the revolution whichever way it went
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">some choose to be neutral taking neither sides
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">many factors affected people's views on independence
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Taking sides was ecpecially hard for the anglicans church members
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">the british king was the head of the anglicans church
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">many anglicans in the northern and middle colonies supported the king
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">many southern presbyterians, however, were loyalist
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">many women in the colonies took part in the movement, efffort by many people, to gain freedom
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">some women formed groups to raise money gor the war and collect clothing, for thr soldiers
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">many womens worked for independence in other ways
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">the oneida chief said that they would turndown any thing they were offered
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">over the years the native americans were on there way to starving to death with both american colinists and the british
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">settlers from both sides continued to encroach on traditional indian lands, moving on to them without asking
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">for this reason the patriots hoped that the indians would at least stay out of the war, even if they did not fight for them
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">the britsh decided to give indians guns and European goods if they agreed to help the british army
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">at the start of the war, free africans were as quick to take sides as their European neighbors
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Peter Salem was among at least five Africans who fought at Concord with the minutemen
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Ensalved Africans who enlisted in the Continential army were promised freedom after the war as a reward <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Help from Other Lands <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0800ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">VICTORY OF YORKTOWN <span style="color: #0800ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">the treaty of paris (1783)
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The Genaral Washington moved to new jersey and there they won importants battles at Trenton and Princeton
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">In December 1777 General Washington set up a headquarters at valley forge Pennsylvania near Philadelphia
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The Patriots had Declared their Independence, but would their army be strong enough to win it ?
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The patriots received some help from soldiers of other countries
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The Marquis De Lafayette a 20 years old French noble, came from france to fight along with the Americans
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Americans colonies win the war and weaken their longtime enemy, the british
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0800ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">When the british goverment learned that France was helping the Americans, britaish army leaders moved their attack from northern colonies to the southern colonies
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0800ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The british hoped that greater the loyalist support in the south would help defeat the patriots one and for all
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0800ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">With the of the loyalists, the british army captured Charleston, South Carolina, in
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The battle of yorktown did not end the Recoloutonary war
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The treaty of paris did that
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The treaty of Paris named The United States of America as a new nation and described its border
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The treaty of Paris was just as much a victory as winning at Yorktown

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