1. The American Revolution

2. What we did Yesterday??
What two colonies did not want to declare their Independence?
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
When was the Declaration of Independence signed
What does bicameral legislature mean? How did South Carolina use it for there New Constitution?
How did African Americans contribute to the American Revolution?
The First Continental Congress took place here?
This treaty ended the French and Indian war?
What did they call the “French and Indian War” in England?
What’s the name of the French fort built near present day Pittsburgh?
This treaty ended the war between the English and Cherokee?
What did England get out of the treaty?
How did the Sugar Act effect South Carolina?
Whay was the French and Indian War Started?
In what way was South Carolina effected by the French and Indian War?
Smugglers were prosecuted in this type of court system which did not use juries?
This famous saying came about because of the “Stamp Act”?
An import tax on paint, paper, tea, and a variety of other goods?
What did the First Continental Congress establish?
The Battle of Lexington was won by
The Massachusetts militia were known as?
The shots fired by the Americans in Concord became known as
The Tea Act gave exclusive rights to this company to sell tea in the colonies?
What two colonies had the most loyalist?
What did it mean to be a Patriot?
What did it mean to be a Loyalist

3. This famous saying came about because of the “Stamp Act”?
An import tax on paint, paper, tea, and a variety of other goods?
What did the First Continental Congress establish?
The Battle of Lexington was won by
The Massachusetts militia were known as?
The shots fired by the Americans in Concord became known as
The Tea Act gave exclusive rights to this company to sell tea in the colonies?
What two colonies had the most loyalist?
What did it mean to be a Patriot?
What did it mean to be a Loyalist

4. Lexington and Concord
During the First Continental Congress South Carolina and the other colonies readied their militias.
The Massachusetts militia was known as the “Minutemen”
In Lexington about seventy Minutemen were waiting outside of town when British troops arrived.
The British commander told the Minutemen to leave or risk being shot.
As the British marched on to Concord the Americans were waiting for them from behind cover and fired upon them wounding many and forcing the British to retreat.
The shots fired by the Americans in Concord became known as “The shot heard round the World”

5. Colonial Patriots
Colonists who supported the Continental Congress and Independence.
Low country South Carolina Patriots created a provisional government to control the colony during the war.
Political leaders were wealthy white men who were land owners and who supported independence.
South Carolina patriots volunteered as soldiers to fight in colonial militias and with patriot partisan groups.

6. In 1775, a group that included two UP Country patriots (Joseph Kershaw and Richard Richardson) were sent to persuade the UP Country residents to join the patriot side.
Richard Richardson led a force into the Up Country known as the “Snow Campaign” to stop the loyalists from aiding the British.
By January 1, 1776, Richardson had chased and captured most of the loyalist leaders which quieted the opposition for the time being.

8. Carolina Loyalists Also known as Tories
People who remained loyal and volunteered to fight on the side of the British.
There were more Loyalists in South Carolina and New York than in any of the other colonies.
Because of the Carolina loyalists, more battles were fought in South Carolina during the American Revolution than in any other colony.
At least 137 battles and skirmishes took place in South Carolina between
When the war ended, many Loyalists voluntarily left South Carolina for the Caribbean or Canada instead of being fined or run out of town.

10. Women of South Carolina
Some women were Patriots while others were Loyalists and some wished to not be involved in the war.
Women managed farms and plantations while the men were away
Served as messengers or nurses and some sacrificed their homes and fortunes.

12. Emily Geiger
An American Revolutionary War heroine who was captured by the Tories while on a military mission as a civilian.
In 1781, she carried an important message from General Nathaniel Greene across enemy grounds where she was captured and questioned.
The Tory matron could find nothing on her seeing as she physically ate the message, so they had to let her go.
She got the message through to General Thomas Sumter, who arrived in time to save the day. A paper meal saved her life, and the lives of many others.
To honor Emily and commemorate her heroic ride, the woman holding the laurel branch on the South Carolina State Seal is designated as Emily Geiger

14. African Americans of South Carolina
Some African Americans served as soldiers in the Continental Army.
In South Carolina most African Americans continued to work as slaves.
South Carolinians feared a slave uprising so at first they rejected the Continental Congress’ appeal to allow slaves to serve in non-military jobs for the army.
When more manpower was needed slaves were used to make up 1/3 of the militia but they were still not able to serve as soldiers.

15. African Americans of South Carolina
Also, African Americans fought with the partisan bands.
Some Northern states offered slaves their freedom in exchange for their service in the Army.
South Carolina did not offer slaves their freedom in exchange for their service.
Some African Americans fought for the British in response to the promise that they would earn their freedom but in this effort they were disappointed.

17. Native Americans
Many Native American tribes avoided the war in the beginning.
American colonists later attacked some Native Americans on the frontier and brought them into the war.
Many Native American tribes such as the Cherokee supported the British because they promised to return control of the west to them.
The Cherokee entered into an alliance with the British and attacked the colonists.

18. South Carolina’s First Constitution
South Carolina’s Provincial Congress created a temporary constitution that was only to last until the differences between the colonies and Great Britain were resolved.
The Constitution was adopted on March 26, 1776.
With the creation of the South Carolina Constitution, Carolina became no longer a colony but a state.

19. Carolina Constitution
The South Carolina constitution of 1776 established a bicameral legislature
The voters elected members of the lower house, and the lower house elected the members of the upper house.
The two houses together then elected a “President” of the state.
The president could not be re-elected but could veto legislation
The Low Country had more representatives in the lower house than the UP Country did.
Having a majority of the delegates from the Low Country was a way of keeping the government in the hands of the patriots and the elite.

20. The Declaration of Independence
On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia offered a motion to the delegates of the Second Continental Congress
“That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.”

21. The Declaration of Independence
On July 1, 1776 a vote was taken by the Second Continental Congress on whether or not to adopt the Declaration of Independence.
Nine States were in favor , two states against, one state divided and one state not voting.
A second vote was taken the next day and all of the states voted in favor of independence except New York, which again didn’t vote
On July 2, 1776 the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, but did not announce it until July 4, 1776.
They warned the people that this war was no longer to win reform within the British system but to Gain Independence.

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