Davies+Chapter+8+study+guide

=Davies Chapter 8 study guide=
 * The battle of Yorktown:**The Battle of Yorktown was on Sep. 28 - Oct. 19 1781. The battle was at Virginia,USA.


 * Fredrich von Steuben:** Fredrich von Steuben was born on Sep. 17 1730. He served as General George Washington's chief of staff in the final years of war.


 * The Treaty of Paris:** The Treaty of Paris officially ended the Revolution War on Sept. 3, 1783. It was signed in Paris by Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay.


 * Peter Salem:** Peter Salem was born a slave in Framingham, Massachusetts around the year 1750. On June 17, 1775, Salem fought at Bunker Hill.
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 * Second Continental Congress:** George Washington grew increasingly exasperated with the Continental Congress' inability to help him as he and the army were being chased from New York and through New Jersey in the fall of 1776. Congress, however, had more than a few problems of its own. The Declaration of Independence had shown that representatives of the thirteen colonies could come to an agreement on a single vital issue. But always crucial to Congressional thinking was the problem of how to create an effective union, without creating an overpowering central government like England's.

Phillis Wheatley was a slave child of seven or eight and sold to John and Susanna Wheatley in Boston on July 11, 1761. She was a poet and she wrote poems that praised the Revolution.
 * Phillis Wheatley:** Phillis Wheatley was born somewhere around the years of 1753-5. She died in Dec. 1784.


 * Olive Branch Petition:**John Dickinson drafted the Olive Branch Petition, which was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5 and submitted to King George on July 8, 1775. It was an attempt to assert the rights of the colonists while maintaining their loyalty to the British crown.


 * George Washington:** George Washington was the first president of the United States. He also was a leader of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War and the president of the Constitutional Convention.

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 * Thomas Jefferson:** Thomas Jefferson was born on Apr. 13 1743. He was elected to the Virginia House of Bergesses. He also signed the Declaration of Independence. Later on, he died on Jul. 4 1826.


 * Quakers:** Quakers were neutral, they took neither side in war. They did not fight in war for independence. They did not believe in fighting because they were very peaceful people. British Quakers, like Catholics, often were treated unfairly because of their beliefs.


 * Thomas Paine:** Thomas Paine was born in Thetford in Norfolk on January 29, 1737. His father, Joseph, was a poor Quaker corset maker who tried to provide his son with an education at the local grammar school but eventually was forced to apprentice him to his trade. He died in the year 1809.


 * Thaddeus Kosciuszko:** Thaddeus Kosciuszko was born in Poland on Feb. 4, 1776. He was a son of Ludwik and Telka Kosciuszko. He attended school in Lubieszow and then the Cadet Academy in Warsaw before continuing his engineering studies in Paris, France. By the time Kosciuszko arrived in America from Poland in 1776, he was a skilled engineer who came to offer his services to the American colonies in their struggle for independence.


 * Mary Slocumb:** Mary Slocumb lived in North Carolina. She was a colonist that fought in the Revolutionary War. Mary rode through thick forests at night to join her husband and other members of the North Carolina mitilia. She fought with them in the battle of Moores Creek Bridge.


 * Mercenaries:** Mercenaries were hired soldiers. The British mostly hired mercenaries to fight on their side. Some of these soldiers were Hessians, from the Hesse region of Germany.[[image:mrsoskil/mary_slocumb.jpg width="161" height="198" align="left"]]


 * Battle of Saratoga:** The Battle of Saratoga was in the year 1777. More than 5,000 British soldiers under General John Burgoyne had moved south from Canada, hoping to cut the colonies in two. Insted, on Oct. 17,1777, lost to Continental soldiers led by General Horatio Gates. The colonists' great victory at Saratoga showed the French that th ecolonists stood a chance at winning the war. Then the fighting began.


 * The 4 parts to the Declaration of Independence:** The first part to the Declaration of Independence stated that Thomas Jefferson wanted his words to help everyone and also in a way and see everyone agree. The second part to the Declaration is that Jefferson listed colonists' ideas about government. Part three is about that he listed colonists' complaints and grievances about the King's unfair practices and about Parliament. The fourth part stated that the colonies should not be a part of or ruled by Britain.


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