Olive Branch Petition- adopted by the Continental Congress in July 1775 to avoid a war

with England The petition was written to the king to prevent further conflict. The petition
was rejected, in August 1775 the colonies were declared in rebellion
Common Sense - a paper written by Thomas Paine, published anonymously on January
10, 1776, during the American Revolution.

Thomas Paine- was a author, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. and
a propagandist.

John Locke- known as the father of liberalism he also helped writ the articles of the
confederation

Loyalists - American colonists who remained loyal to the Brittish

Articles of Confederation - the first constitution of the United States of America.The

Second Continental Congress chose a committee to write it in 1776

Battle of Bunker Hill- June 17, 1775, The battle is named after the adjacent Bunker Hill,
which was close by referred to as the "Battle of Breed's Hill."

Benedict Arnold - a general during the American Revolutionary War. He began the war
in the Continental Army but later went to the British Army.

Hessian- German regiments hired through their rulers by the British

The Battle of Saratoga generally regarded as a turning point in the war. The battles were
fought eighteen days apart on the same ground, nine miles (14.5 km) south of Saratoga,
New York.

Valley Forge- in Pennsylvania was the site of the camp of the American Army over the
winter of 1777–1778

Iroquois Confederacy- decentralized political and diplomatic entity that emerged in

response to European colonization.

Battle of Yorktown -in 1781 was a victory by combined led by General George
Washington and French forces led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army
commanded by Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis.

Mary Wollstonecraft -advocate of women's rights. She suggests that both men and
women should be treated as rational beings and imagines a social order founded on
reason.

Abigail Adams- was the wife of John Adams, who was the second President of the
United States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth. She was the first Second
Lady of the United States, and the second First Lady of the United States.
Manumission- is the act of a slave owner freeing his or her slaves.

Republicanism- is the idea of governing a where the head of state is appointed by means
other than heredity, often elections.

Idea of Convention- A revision to the articles of confederation

Ordinance of 1784 - the land west of the Appalachian Mountains, north of the Ohio
River and east of the Mississippi River to be divided into separate states.

Northwest Ordinance -creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized

territory of the United States out of the region south of the Great Lakes, north and west of
the Ohio River, and east of the Mississippi River.

Battle of Fallen Timbers- the final battle of the Northwest Indian War, a struggle
between American Indian tribes affiliated with the Western Confederacy and the United
States.

Treaty of Greenville- was signed at Fort Greenville on August 2, 1795, between a

coalition of Native Americans & Frontiers men known as the Western Confederacy

Shays' Rebellion- was an uprising from 1786 to 1787. The rebellion is named after
Daniel Shays, a veteran of the American Revolution.

Civic virtue- is the use of habits of importance to make the community better