Chapter 8-9

By AurelisP

  • Firdt Continental

    calls for abolition of slavery

  • Second Continental Congress

    met in Philadelphia in 1775 to see if they can appeal and come to a compromise with the king and Parliament

  • Bunker hill

    colonists seizd a hill

  • Olive Branch Petition

    Petition sent to Britain professing their loyalty to the king and begging the king to prevent further hostilities

  • Long Island

    Battle from Washington escaped

  • Quakers

    Quakers found world's first anti-slavery society

  • Common Sense

    written by Thomas Paine saying that they colonies can have a democratic government

  • Declaration of Independence

    written by Thomas Jefferson; told Britain all their wrong doings

  • NJ Constitution

    temporarily gives the women the vote

  • Trenton

    Hessians were captured

  • First Constitution

    Articles of Confederation

  • Battle of Yorktown

    last battle that was won by the Americans

  • Treaty of Paris

    1783; British had to recognize the US as independent

  • Land Ordinance

    provided that the acreage of the Old Northwest should be sold to pay the national debt

  • Shay's Rebellion

    farmers were mad because they were losing their farms through mortgage foreclosures and tax delinquencies