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- Commander of the Southern Patriots forces. He kept the British forces always moving.
- Skirmish between Loyalists and Patriots near Wilmington NC. Patriots win
- agreement signed by British and American leaders that stated the United States of America was free and independent country
- a document drawn up by the colonists during the Continental Congress that says that the colonies is now an independent country from England.
- the commander of British troops in the South, best known for his defeat at the Battle of Yorktown
- German soldiers hired by George III to smash Colonial rebellion.
- a document that RECOMMENDED that NC declare independence from Britain
- They organized the continental Army, selected George Washington to lead the army, and appointed the committee to write the Declaration of Independence
- American colonists who remained loyal to Britian and opposed the war for independence
- Until the 1870s, who in essence controlled the territory between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande?
- The ideals of the Declaration of Independence helped to inspire leaders of the Revolution in 1789.
- What key component of the 1860 Republican platform had never before been part of a major party's platform?
- What was the spark for a deadly riot in New York in 1863?
- Starting in 1863, why did Frederick Douglas believe that African-Americans should serve as soldiers in the Union army?
- The Wilmot Proviso, admission of California into the Union, and the Missouri Compromise focused on what?
- general who took charge of the Continental army in the South in 1780
- What separated Grant from the other Union generals who commanded the Army of the Potomac?
- What could be one possible reason that Robert E. Lee invaded the North in 1863?
- are fighters who work in small bands and make hit-and-run attacks
- What distinguished John Brown from other abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass?