american revolution

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  1. 2. george III King George consented to the hiring of thousands of Hessian mercenaries to assist the British troops already in America in crushing the rebellion
  2. 3. one of the biggest continent
  3. 4. States gain independence and establish the constitution
  4. 5. york some battles happened in new york
  5. 6. . George Washington (1732-99) was commander in chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
  6. 9. Over the course of the war, about 231,000 soldiers served in the Continental Army
  7. 12. Pennsylvania's capital, Philadelphia, was the site of the first and second Continental Congresses in 1774 and 1775,
  8. 13. one of the wars happened in boston
  9. 15. united kingdom
  10. 16. the Continental Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence
  11. 19. Louis XV1 Louis convened the Estates-General in an effort to solve his budget crisis, but by doing so he unwittingly sparked the French Revolution.
  12. 20. Adams helped organize the Sons of Liberty, signed the Declaration of Independence, and was governor of Massachusetts.
  13. 21. the were called the Continental Army
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  1. 1. day July 4, 1776
  2. 7. Jefferson served in the Virginia legislature and the Continental Congress and was governor of Virginia.
  3. 8. franklin the portrait on the 100 bill is him
  4. 10. the first modern constitutional liberal democracy.
  5. 11. the French sent supplies and arms ammunition
  6. 12. The Philadelphia campaign (1777–1778) was a British effort in the American Revolutionary War to gain control of Philadelphia
  7. 14. year war The Seven Years' War, a prelude to the American Revolution
  8. 17. is who they were.
  9. 18. to help Britain cover the cost of winning a war in the colonies.