Unit 2-U.S. History

The Olive Branch Petition

The New Jersey Plan

The Treaty of Paris 1783

The British surrender at Yorktown

They supplied the colonists with financial and military aid

They supplied the British with financial and military aid

They supplied the fugitive slaves with financial and military aid

They supplied the Native Americans with financial and military aid

The Committee of Five

Committees of Correspondence

The Abolitionist Movement

The Virginia Plan

On the side of the French because they promised to return their land.

On the side of the British because they promised to return their land.

On the side of the Spanish because they promised to return their land.

On the side of the Americans because they promised to return their land.

It was where the British Army was trapped on a peninsula and the final battle of American Rev.

It was there that the "shot heard 'round the world" was fired to start the Rev

It was a British victory that destroyed the southern half of the Colonial Army

It was the first time George Washington was victorious.

THey needed to pay for the French and Indian War.

They needed to fight the threat from Napoleon.

Money was needed to finance colonial social programs.

Money was needed to pay for Native American territory.

Marquis de Lafayette and George Washington

Benjamin Franklin and John Adams

Baron von Steuben and John Locke

Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson

Committees of Correspondence

Sons of Liberty

Daughters of Liberty

Committee of Five

a series of punishments for the colonists rebellion at the Boston Tea Party

a formal announcement of war between the colonies

an explanation of why the colonies were dissolving political connections to Britain

a statement that the United States would not become involved in foreign affairs

African-Americans uniformly supported the Patriot cause of freedom.

After the war, Britain returned most of the slaves who attempted to seek refuge in Canada.

The British army adopted a policy of enlisting runaway slaves and offered emancipation to gain support.

African-Americans did not play a significant role.