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Chapter Seven

The War for America,

1775-1783

Chapter Seven Key Terms

• Second Continental Congress

• George Washington

• “Declaration on the Causes and the Necessity of Taking Up Arms”

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Breed’s Hill

• William Howe

• Olive Branch Petition

• Thomas Paine

• Common Sense

• Abigail Adams

• Declaration of Independence

• Thomas Jefferson

Chapter Seven Key Terms

• 4 July 1776

• Slide 6

• 25 December 1776

• Trenton

• Loyalists (Tories)

• Patriots (Whigs)

• Certificates of Debt

• John Burgoyne

• Hudson River Valley

• William Howe

• Battle of Saratoga

• Slide 7

• 17 October 1777

• Horatio Gates

• Valley Forge

Chapter Seven Key Terms

• Charles Cornwallis

• Slide 8

• Battle of Camden

• Slide 9

• Benedict Arnold

• Francis Marion

• Yorktown

• Treaty of Paris

• 2 September 1783

• Slide 10