1. Chapter 8: The American Revolution (1776-1783)
Vocabulary

2. Battle of Guilford Courthouse S.C.
Continental Army
The army formed by the Second Continental Congress that would defend the colonies as a whole.
Battle of Guilford Courthouse S.C.

3. Olive Branch Petition
A letter of peace drafted by the Second Continental Congress to Great Britain.
John Dickenson of Pennsylvanian supported the petition.
The Great Seal of The United States has an Eagle holding an olive branch for peace and arrows for war.

4. Hessians Hired German soldiers who fought for the British.
800 Hessians were captured at the Battle of Trenton.

5. Continental Army Infantry
Patriot
One who supported independence from Great Britain for the Thirteen colonies
Artist Edward Hicks, Washington at the Delaware (1849)
Continental Army Infantry

6. Loyalist (Tories)
A colonist who sided with Great Britain during the American Revolution
Great Britain raised many regiments of soldiers from loyalist in the colonies.
Colonel Banastre Tarleton, Loyalist commander of the British Legion, S.C.

7. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
Writer who argued for America to separate from Great Britain.

8. Lee Resolution
Resolution, introduced by Richard Henry Lee, declaring America independent from Great Britain.
First American Flag (1776)

9. Declaration of Independence
Document stating the 13 colonies were separate from Great Britain.
Artist: John Trumbull, The Declaration of Independence, (1820), oil on canvas.

10. Treaty of Alliance (1778)
Betsy Ross American Flag and French Royal Standard Flag both used in 1778.
France agreed to give military assistance to the American army.

11. Privateers Armed, private ships that protected colonial ports.
USS Providence
Armed, private ships that protected colonial ports.
USS Bonhomme Richard
Di sconosciuto o non pervenuto - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Pubblico dominio,

12. Treaty of Paris (1783)
Artist Benjamin West (1783)
- Public Domain,
Treaty ending the Revolutionary War negotiated by Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and John Jay. Great Britain recognizes American independence.