social studies test

  1. Enlightenment:a movement that stressed reason and science, over superstition and faith

  2. Loyalist:Loyalists supported the British cause and loyalty to the British sovereign during the American War for Independence

  3. Patriot:supported and helped launch the American Revolution that ultimately established American independence.

  4. Declaration of Independence:The Declaration summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independence.

  5. Battles of Lexington and Concord:marked the start of the American War of Independence

  6. Battle of Bunker Hill:proved they could hold their own against the superior British Army.

  7. Battle of Brandywine:resulted in an overarching British victory and the conquest of the rebel seat of government.

  8. Battle of Saratoga:The Battle of Saratoga was a turning point in the Revolutionary War

  9. Battle of Trenton: battle during christmas.The victory set the stage for another success at Princeton a week later and boosted the morale of the American troops.

  10. Battle of Yorktown: led directly to the peace negotiations that ended the war in 1783 and gave America its independence.general lord charles cornwallis

  11. Winter at Valley Forge: unified force capable of defeating the British and winning American independence during the remaining five years of the war

  12. Guerilla warfare:it has been a weapon of protest employed to rectify real or imagined wrongs levied on a people either by a ruling government or by a foreign invader.

John Adams:led the movement for independence

Paul Revere:he was the messenger of the american revolution

Benjamin Franklin:he served as a delegate to the Continental Congress

George Washington: commander of the continental army

Thomas Jefferson: commander in chief of the virginia militia

Marquis de La Fayette:he played an extremely crucial role in securing 6,000 French troops for the American cause

John Locke: his political theory directly influenced the U.S declaration of independence in its assertion of natural rights and its grounding of political authority in the consent of the governed.

King George III: small role,He exhorted his military and civil government to stay firm their efforts to put down the rebellion, and uncompromising with the rebels' goal of independence.

General William Howe: commander in chief of the british army

General John Burgoyne:commanded a force of 8,500 men during the 1777 campaign season in an attack on the Lake Champlain-Hudson River Valley from Canada. Burgoyne's defeat at the Battle of Saratoga in October 1777 led to the formal alliance between France and the United States in February 1778.

Lord Charles Cornwallis: held commands in the colonies throughout the duration of the war and was frequently George Washington's battlefield counterpart, surrender of siege of yorktown