American Revolution

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  1. 3. A man who was born in 1742 at Anson County, North Carolina, was an officer of the Georgia Militia and hero in the American Revolutionary War. He fought in the southern theater and in the Battle of Kettle Creek.
  2. 4. arrived in America as an indentured servant and rose to become a wealthy merchant and landowner. He was a leader in Georgia of the American Revolution (1775-83) and helped write Georgia's first constitution. In 1777 he became Georgia's first elected governor. Treutlen County, in central Georgia, is named in his honor.
  3. 8. Battle on February 14, 1779 during the Revolutionary War. A patriot militia defeated a loyalist militia fought in Wilkes County.
  4. 11. was a British-born American political leader who, as a representative of Georgia to the Continental Congress, was the second of the signatories on the United States Declaration of Independence.
  5. 13. A law that taxed every piece of paper the colonists used, and required them to get a stamp on it.
  6. 14. a document signed amongst the 13 original colonies that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution.
  7. 16. Lived 1735 – 1830 and was a heroine of the American Revolutionary War noted for her whose exploits against Loyalists in the Georgia backcountry.
  8. 17. Another Name for The French and Indian War
  9. 18. was a slave who fought against the British in the American Revolutionary War. He was born a mulatto slave in Wake County, North Carolina, sometime in the 1760s.
  10. 19. Those who were loyal to the Americans
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  1. 1. An agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution.
  2. 2. Those who were loyal England
  3. 5. Lived June 8, 1748 – July 16, 1828 was an American politician and a farmer, and a businessman and a Founding Fatherof the United States. He represented the U.S. state of Georgia at the Constitutional Convention.
  4. 6. The Document that was signed in 1776 to made the British Colonies into a separate country.
  5. 7. A series of acts passed by British Parliament to punish the Massachusetts colony for the Boston Tea Party.
  6. 9. He was a physician, clergyman, and statesman, and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Georgia. Hall County is named after him.
  7. 10. Born in Virginia and lived 1749 – February 2, 1804 signed the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Georgia and also served as the second Chief Executive of Georgia.
  8. 12. Taking place on October 19, 1781 was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British lord and Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis.
  9. 14. Lived November 22, 1754 – March 4, 1807 was an American politician, Patriot, and Founding Father from the U.S. state of Georgia. was a Georgia representative in the Continental Congress and served in the United States House of Representatives and Senate after the adoption of the Constitution.
  10. 15. A encounter of the Revolutionary war, in which the Americans and French allies tried to take back this coastal city in Georgia from the British.