Everything about the American Revolution with Complete Solutions

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Everything about the American Revolution with Complete Solutions Abigail Adams ✔✔John Adam's wife, she appealed to her husband to protect the rights of women. a member of the Daughters of Liber... ty Articles of confederation ✔✔the first plan of government for the United States. It created a very weak national government. The states had all the power. Each state had only 1 vote. 9/13 had to pass any law, congress could not control trade, make taxes, or have an army Benedict Arnold ✔✔continental army officer who later became a traitor and worked for the British during the Revolutionary War Benjamin Franklin ✔✔American patriot, writer, printer, and inventor. During the Revolutionary War he persuaded the French to help the colonists. common sense ✔✔A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1776 to convince the colonists that it was time to become independent. continental army ✔✔the American army during the American Revolution Cowpens ✔✔in south carolina, proved the Americans could defeat the British in the South deborah sampson ✔✔pretended to be a man and dressed in men's clothes so that she could fight in the American Revolition Declaration of Independence ✔✔This document was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. It established the 13 colonies as independent states, free from rule by Great Britain. Thomas Jefferson wrote the majority of this document. Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben ✔✔german soldier who came to Valley Forge, he was a well trained soldier and helped better train the Americans george washington ✔✔Virginian, patriot, general, and president. Led the Revolutionary Army in the fight for independence. First President of the United States. Guilford Courthouse ✔✔the British won but were severely weakened, showed the british could not win the war because no one city or town was the heart of America Hessians ✔✔mercenaries(hired soldiers) from Germany who fought for the British during the American Revolution James Armistead ✔✔a slave from Virginia w [Show More]

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