Sennefelder+Ch.8+Study+Guide

=**Peter Salem**=

=**Second Continental Congress**=

**Some of the most important colonial leaders came.**
=**Battle of Yorktown**=

**into the bay to drop off supplies. The French and the Colonists defeted the British at Yorktown by**
=**Friedrich von Stuben**=
 * surrounding the bay. The British was then trapped.**

**started training to be a soldier.**
=Treaty of Paris=

**was an independant contry now called the United States of America.**
=**Mercenaries**=

**A mercenarie is a soldier hired to serve in a foreign army.**
=**Phillis Wheatley**=

**She wrote poems that were praised by George Washington. She wrote her first poem**

 * at the age of thirteen. Before she could even write a poem she had to learn English.**
 * Wheatley was the name of her onwers last name. She became a slave when she was**
 * only seven years old. She died in 1784.**

=Olive Branch Petition=

**The Second Continental Congress sent the Olive Branch Petition to King George telling**
=**George Washington**=
 * him that Patriots only wanted peace and to repeal the Intolerable Acts. Unfortunatley**
 * the king did not repeal the acts. That in when the Second Contenental Congress**
 * formed an army.**

**to the Father of Our Country. Washington died on December 14, 1799.**
=**Battle of Saratoga**= =**Thomas Jefferson**=
 * The British marched to New York and tryed to cut the bridge that conected the colonies.**
 * If they did that, then the Patriots could not communicate with one another. If they could not talk**
 * to eachother then the British would defeat the Patriots once and for all. But the Patroits**
 * were smart and stopped the British from cutting down the bridge and that was the start of**
 * the Battle of Saratoga.**

**Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 at Shadwell Virginia. Jeferson wrote most**
=**Mary Slocumb**=
 * of the Declaration of Independence. He was a Patriot. Jefferson was the third president**
 * of the United States. he died in 1826.**

**Mary Slocumb was a Patriot. Her husband was in the Continental army. She rode**
=**Quakers**=
 * through the forest to see him. She also fought with the Carolina milita.**

**Quakers were agenst war. They believed in peaceful settlement. They were nethier**
=**Thomas Paine**=
 * Patriots or Loyalists. They were called pacifists.**

**people should have the authority to rule them selves. He was a Patriot.**
=**Thaddeus Kosciuszko**=

**Patriots he returned to Poland to lead a revolution there.**
=**The 4 parts of the Declaration of Independance**=

**Said why the Declaration**

 * was needed.**

**Part 2**

 * Jefferson listed the colonists**
 * main ideas about**
 * goverment.**

**complants adout Parliment**

 * and the king.**

**Said that the 13 colonies**

 * are no longer part of**
 * Britian.**