Maddy,+Nick,+and+Shane

=Chapter #8= Vocabulary for Lesson #1 Lesson #1 : **At War With the Homeland** Second Continental Congress The Continental Army The British advantage
 * =   v ﻿ ﻿ ﻿ ﻿ Shane - Orange ﻿ ﻿ Maddy - ﻿ Purple Nick- ﻿ Lime Green  =
 * olive branch - a symbol of peace ||
 * Continetal- a soilder in the first colony war headed by Geroge Washington ||
 * mercensary- a hired solider ||
 * enlist- to join ||
 * fighting at Lexington and Concor﻿d
 * Contonetal Congress met in May 1775
 * meeting was to decide what to do now because battle was fought
 * Continental Congress asked all the colonies to send soldiers to Massachuset
 * They chose George Washinton to lead new colonies
 * The secon continental congress gave money to support soldiers by bullets and ect.
 * Congress voted to print paper money
 * Ceorge Washington arrived in Massachusetts to meet his army less than three weeks after the bunker battle
 * Battle took place in Boston on June 17th 1775
 * The soldiers from the northern colonies wore only thier own clothes
 * continentals made up their first army
 * British Army was professional soldiers


 * ﻿the british used mercenaries to fight
 * some of the soilders were Hessians
 * british had native american allies

=The Desicions for Independence ﻿ =

Lesson #2 Vocabulary

The first steps
 * < __Revolution__: sudden complete change of goverment ||
 * < __Independance__:freedom to govern one ones own ||
 * < __Allegiance__: loyalty ||
 * < __Decleration__: a offical statment ||
 * < __Grievance__: a complant ||
 * Thomas Paine did most to change public opinion in the colonies [[image:http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTJ3YtBYNqa7mSG8Gglsxg0MH2PCjF1JeQ3FAUi6LEwYG4F72ppkj3pfQ width="111" height="88" align="right"]]
 * January 1776 Paine wrote a pamphlet called common sense
 * Some colonies were not ready for Independence

Writing the Declaration win their fight for freedom to congress on June 28 it was read aloud 4, 1776  Lesson #3 :/ Americans Take Sides
 * Thomas Jefferson wanted his words to assist the colonists
 * When Jefferson was finished writting the Declaration he gave it
 * After several small changes to the Declaration, it was approved on July
 * The 13 colonies had declared independence
 * after the declaration of independance was signed, people had to decide if they would support the colines of the british king
 * about a third of the colonists were loyalist
 * and about another thrid of the colonists were patiots

Churches and the War Women and the War  Native Americans and the War
 * Neutral:/ not taking sides in a conflict ||
 * Pacifist:/ a beliver in a peaceful statment of differences ||
 * <span style="color: #bf1ef1; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Movement:/effort by many people ||
 * <span style="color: #bf1ef1; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Enroach:/ to move on without asking permission ||
 * <span style="color: #bf1ef1; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Regiment:/ a troup of soilders ||
 * <span style="color: #21ff00; font-family: Georgia,serif;">many factors like religons affected peoples views on independance
 * <span style="color: #21ff00; font-family: Georgia,serif;">peter muhlenberg was a yough lutheren ministor he had told his followers that there was time to pray and time to fight
 * <span style="color: #21ff00; font-family: Georgia,serif;">the anglican people had a hard time trying to decide who takes sides
 * <span style="color: #21ff00; font-family: Georgia,serif;">the northern coloines king and the middle colonies suppoted the coloines who worked for their independance
 * <span style="color: #21ff00; font-family: Georgia,serif;">many women in the colonies took a part in the movement so they could gain their freedom
 * <span style="color: #21ff00; font-family: Georgia,serif;">some women formed groupsto raise money and collect clothignfor the soilders in the war
 * <span style="color: #21ff00; font-family: Georgia,serif;">in lancaster PA the women formed a group called the Unmarried Ladies of America
 * <span style="color: #21ff00; font-family: Georgia,serif;">each lady promissed to never their hand in marriage to a man untill he proved him self as a partiot
 * <span style="color: #21ff00; font-family: Georgia,serif;">the women took a part in all of the fighting that was going on
 * <span style="color: #21ff00; font-family: Georgia,serif;">a patiot named Abigal Adams wanted to be sure that independance would be pretty good for women just as well as fro women
 * <span style="color: #bf1ef1; font-family: Georgia,serif;">over the years native americans had grown very angray with both the american colonies and the british
 * <span style="color: #bf1ef1; font-family: Georgia,serif;">settlers from both sides continued to move on without permission on traditional indian land
 * <span style="color: #bf1ef1; font-family: Georgia,serif;">yet many native americans had to depend on the europenans as trading partners
 * <span style="color: #bf1ef1; font-family: Georgia,serif;">most indians however stayed out of the angry fighting

<span style="color: #bf1ef1; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Aficans and the War Lesson #4 <span style="color: #28ff00; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Lesson #4
 * peter salem was one of the five Africans who fought at Concord with the minute men
 * enslaved Africans who entered in the Continental army were promised freedom after the war as a prize
 * <span style="color: #28ff00; font-family: Georgia,serif;">taking sides with the patriots was diffucult for many patriots
 * <span style="color: #28ff00; font-family: Georgia,serif;">the declaration of independence says that all men are created equal
 * <span style="color: #28ff00; font-family: Georgia,serif;">if patriots won freedom from britian slaves would still be slave
 * <span style="color: #28ff00; font-family: Georgia,serif;">in the summer of 1776 General George Washington and the continental army were forced to retreat from Brooklyn as british approached

<span style="color: #ffa500; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Victory At Yorktown <span style="color: #ffa500; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Treaty of Pa <span style="color: #bf1ef1; font-family: Georgia,serif;">﻿ <span style="color: #ffa500; font-family: Georgia,serif;">ris
 * siege- a long lasting attack ||
 * treaty- an agreement between countires ||
 * negotiate- to talk with one another to work otu an agreement ||
 * <span style="color: #ffa500; font-family: Georgia,serif;">when british govenment had learned that the france was helping the americans the british amry moved their attack for the nouthern colonies to the southern colonies
 * <span style="color: #ffa500; font-family: Georgia,serif;">durning the 1781 the fighting centered in virgina
 * <span style="color: #ffa500; font-family: Georgia,serif;">the french bined forces with the contenetals near new york
 * <span style="color: #ffa500; font-family: Georgia,serif;">the two armys marched to virgina and surounded yorktown
 * <span style="color: #ffa500; font-family: Georgia,serif;">i late september charles cornwallies sent a sentance to his commander in the north in was "if you cant relive me prepare for the worst to come"
 * <span style="color: #ffa500; font-family: Georgia,serif;">the worst had happened, surrounded by a great siege for 2 weeks from both the land and the sea cornwallies had to give up
 * <span style="color: #ffa500; font-family: Georgia,serif;">and the patriots won in 1781 the battle of yorktown
 * <span style="color: #ffa500; font-family: Georgia,serif;">the battle of yorktown really didnt end the revolutionary war but the treatyof paris did
 * <span style="color: #ffa500; font-family: Georgia,serif;">work on the treaty began in april 1782
 * <span style="color: #ffa500; font-family: Georgia,serif;">richord oswald went to paris to tak with bengerman frankilin