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America Secedes from Empire
The American Pageant, Chapter 8
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11th Grade
10/19/2008

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April 1775
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Lexington and Concord
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May 10, 1775
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Second Continental Congress convenes
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May 1775: Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold capture _________ and _______ ______
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Ticonderoga and Crown Point
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June 1775: The colonists seize ________
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Bunker (Breed) Hill
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July 1775: Congress adopts _______
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The Olive Branch Petition: professed loyalty to crown and begged king to prevent further hostilities
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August 1775; King George III ______
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Rejected the Olive Branch Petition and declared the colonists in rebellion
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Hessians
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German mercenaries who were hired by King George III (the German princes needed the money)
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October 1775: The British burned _______
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Falmouth (Portland), Maine
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December 31, 1776
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Failed colonial assault on Quebec; General Richard Montgomery killed, Benedict Arnold retreats to St. Lawrence River
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January 1776: The British burned ______
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Norfolk, Virginia
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March 1776
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Evacuation Day (Boston)
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February 1776
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Colonial victory at Moore's Creek Bridge, NC
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June 1776
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Colonial victory at Charleston harbor, SC
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1776 publication
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Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"
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June 7, 1776
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Richard Henry Lee (VA) presents resolution of independency
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July 2, 1776
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Motion for independence adopted
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July 4, 1776
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The Declaration of Independence is formally approved and signed by Congress
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Byrds of Virginia
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Neutral colonists, neither Loyalist nor Patriot
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July 1776: British fleet arrives in _________
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New York
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December 26, 1776
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Washington surprises and captures the Hessians at Trenton, NJ
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Late 1777: Washington defeated at ______ and ______
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Brandywine Creek and Germantown
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October 17, 1777
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General Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga to Horatio Gates
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1778
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The French offered a treaty of alliance with the Americans
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1779: _______ and _______ enter fight against Britain
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Spain and Holland
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1780: Catherine the Great organized the __________
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Armed Neutrality
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June 1778: Washington attacks redcoats at __________
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Monmouth, NJ
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Summer 1780: French army under _____ arrived at ___________
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Comte de Rochambeau; Newport, RI
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1780: _________ turns traitor
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Benedict Arnold
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1778-1779: The British overrun ________
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Georgia
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1780: _______ falls to the British
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South Carolina
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1780-1781: Colonists defeat British at ________ and _________
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King's Mountain and Cowpens
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Carolina campaign of 1781 successfully led by ____________
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General Nathaniel Greene
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1784: Treaty of __________
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Fort Stanwix
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1778-1779: George Rogers Clark captures ____________
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Kaskaskia, Cahokia, Vincennes
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October 19, 1781
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Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown to Washington, Rochambeau, and de Grasse
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Treaty of Paris of ______
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1783
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