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- What did the signing of the Declaration of Independence mean for the colonists?
- played a key role in Spanish attacks that captured British forts on the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico.Financial help also came from the Spanish colony of Cuba.
- Committee members John Adams and suggested only minor changes to Jefferson's writing in the Declaration of Independence.
- was a German baron who directed the training of Washington's army.
- In Trenton, Washington's soldiers captured almost a thousand Hessian
- Who wrote a pro-independence pamphlet titled Common Sense
- Washington's army spent the hard winter of 1777-1778 at
- In the summer of 1776, gathered his forces on Staten Island.
- . Paine's Common Sense increased support for in the colonies.
- The Virginia resolution, proclaiming that the colonies were "free and independent states," was introduced to Congress by
- A French noble called the became a high ranking officer in Washington's army.
- The Declaration of Independence is divided into a preamble and three main sections. The first main section
- Both Patriots and Loyalists were in a at the start of 1776.
- The Declaration of Independence is based on the idea of natural
- What two things happened to bring the colonists and the Congress closer to a formal call for independence?
- John Adams complained that Loyalists used the prospect of independence
- Lincoln advocated a __________ Reconstruction plan that vwas created by his own party
- What happened when the production of food increased?
- The Senator who was beat unconscious in Congress was?
- Opened the way for union forces to take