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Continental Army
[Chapter 3](Chapter 3)At the begining the continental congress created a local militias to fight the war against the British. The lesson learned from early battles such as Bunker Hill was the colonist needed a large training to fight the professional British soldiers. -
Patriots
[Chapter 3](Chapter 3) They came from every rank in the colonial society. The majority of the patriots came from lower classes, basically all this patriots what all they wanted was to have a voice in the colonis -
The First Continental Congress
[Chapter 3](Chapter 3)This congress was a direct response to the intolerable Act. that British where giving to America. Despite their unhappiness with British policies and the creation of local Committes of Observation and safety to watch colonists' loyalties even if they were anti-British and to take steps to defendt the colony. So at this time America started to have their self government. under the UK governors. -
Lexington and Concord
[Chapter 3](Chapter 3)During the last months of 1774 the british governor was alarmed for the local militias that where created in Boston to fight against the British -
Declaring Independence
[Chapter 3](Chapter 3)The Americans where discountent whit the British Policy and begans whit the Continental Congress -
Second Continental Congress
[Chapter 3](Chapter 3) The Secon Continental Congress took place in Philadelphia in May 1775. They began recruiting soldiers from several colonies, and finally they started to make peacefull trates whit England. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
[Chapter 3](Chapter 3) In the late spring of 1775 the continental army where all around Boston and the british soldiers find themselves trapped in the city so the redcoats start to attack the American position and that war was so bad that is consider the first major battle of the war. -
Loyalist
[Chapter 3](chapter 3) About one - fifth of the population of the American colonies where loyal to the British Crown. Those Loyals named the patriots "Tories".
Some of this loyals where the tax collector of the king, however most of them where poor farmers and artisans. Many of those loyalist where only loyal because they had power over the british colonies. -
Quebec Military Campaigns
The continental army didnt had a clear strategy and they leaders where disagree mostly the hall time so they had the desastrous decition of invade Quebec to attack the british. -
Saratoga
[Chapter 3](Chapter 3) Where the British strategy fail and was the place where the Americans win a battle, also at that time France join the war figthing in the American side. -
Charleston
[Chapter 3](Chapter 3) The battles of the American Revolution where mostly in the north, famous battles like Lexington, Bunker Hill, Princeton and Saratoga. Charleston where surroundes when the general Henry Clinton led British force to capture Savannah, Georgia and they where moving to South Carolina.
The British Militias made a huge effort whit blacks that where promise to be freedom in order to help them. -
Yorktown
[Chapter 3](Chapter 3) Basically Washington surround Yorktown whit the A french fleet that arrive off in the Virginia Coast so basically th British forces where marching and playing a famous song "The World Turned Upside Down" telling the continental army that the world still continue -
The Treaty of Paris
[Chapter 3](Chapter 3) The British and Americans make an agrement whitout any French approval. Britain recognized the American independence and withdraw their remaining troops, Britain also give America all the lands of South Canada and the north of the Spanish Florida. American from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississipi River became a richer and larger country in natural resources tham any European power Lol... -
King George III
Lol from WikipediaWas the king of England and Ireland he was one of the longest monarch in the kingdom and he also made England one of the most powerfulls countrys at the time biting france for 7 years war but he also lost the American Colonies -
George Washington
[Wikipedia](Wikipedia)Was the Father of the Country, he was the commander of the continental army he get the freedom of the American from the british yehhhh and later when American became independent he became the first president of America.
Washington was born into the provincial gentry of a wealthy, well-connected Colonial Virginia family who owned tobacco plantations and slaves. After both his father and older brother died when he was young, Washington became personally and professionally attached to the powerful
