The American Revolution

Learning Target:
I can evaluate the significance of the changes produced by the American Revolution. 

Critical Vocabulary:
Second Continental Congress, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Continental Army, Olive Branch Petition, Battle of Bunker Hill, Loyalists, Patriots, Common Sense, Prohibitory Act, “Hessians,” Declaration of Independence, General William Howe, Battle of Long Island, The American Crisis, New Jersey Campaign, General John Burgoyne, Battle of Saratoga, Treaty of Alliance, Valley Forge, Baron von Steuben, General Charles Cornwallis, General Benedict Arnold, Battle of Yorktown, Peace of Paris, Articles of Confederation, Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom, Dunmore’s Proclamation, Abigail Adams, “Republican Motherhood,” John Trumbull, Noah Webster, “Newburgh Conspiracy,” Land Ordinance of 1785, Northwest Ordinance of 1787, Shays’ Rebellion