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Last conciliatory appeal to the king.
America's last peace proposition to the king before war (not even read by the king). |
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| Closed the colonies to all overseas trade. Colonists interpreted it as a push towards trying to become independent. |
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| Conspiracy in which congress tried to replace Washington as commander in chief. Failed because he was so widely admired and respected. |
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| A cherokee chief that kept a sucessful resistance to European expansion for a time. He launched a series of attacks on both Patriot and British settlements and, for a time, helpd the Europeans back past the Tennasee River. |
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| Commander of a small American force. He failed to make Canada part of the United States. |
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| General of the British Army. He took the first step to really starting a war by the British. Howe also offered royal pardon instead of war. |
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| British officer. Launched an attack on New York along both the Mohawk and upper Hudson approaches to Albany. His defeat at Saratoga was the turning point of the war because it showed the French that the Americans could possibly win. |
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| People who went to Europe to get new trading partners/treaties. Forced other countries to recognize them as their own country. |
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| Siblings in the Iroquois Confederation who urged Native support of the British. Helped the English to win in Canada and started to split the Iroquois Confederation. |
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| French dramatist and secret agent. Helped France to supply America with things needed for the war. |
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| Replaced General Howe. As new head of the British army, he moved his forces to New York where they hardly fought for the remainder of the war. |
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| British commander in the South. Abandoned fighting in the Carolinas and surrendered at Yorktown, marking the end of fighting in the American Revolution. |
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| Patriot guerrilla leader in the South. Also called the “Swamp Fox.” He helped keep Cornwallis and his troops occupied/harassed while not in battle. |
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| Replaced Gates as Commander of the patriots in the South. Confused and exasperated Cornwallis and led to his withdrawal from the Carolinas. |
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| Women who helped with the war. They violated gender roles and, not significantly, but somewhat helped increase the value of women's ideas, interests, and domestic roles. |
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| African American writer that said that African Americans have the same rights as Caucasians.Helped relay the lessons of the revolution to the African American people. |
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| Essayist in the late 18th century. She wrote that women's minds are as good as men's, so both boys and girls should be educated. She helped to get people to think about women's rights. |
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| Vindication of the Rights of Women |
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| Book written by Mary Wollstonecraft. It helped people to understand the "rights" that women had and led people to believe that future generations of women would inaugurate "a new era in female history." |
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| Virginia Statue of Religious Liberty |
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| Written by Thomas Jefferson and called for complete separation of church and state. It was the boldest step towards religious freedom of that time. |
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| Led the Miami confederacy in its wars with the US in Ohio. He defeated the United States in two major battles, but was defeated at the battle of falling timbers. He tried to protect the Ohio River Valley. |
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| Ohio and Scioto Companies |
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| land speculation companies. They bought most of the land in Ohio and then sold it to settlers, leading to the Northwest Ordinance. |
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| The treaty that ended the Battle of Falling Timbers between the Unite States and the Miami. It gave the United States more land and formally recognized Miami land. |
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| Head of the Confederation's treasury. He tried to have taxes on imported goods that would go to Congress to pay the national debt, which resulted in many people withdrawing from the Confederation. |
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