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- 2. Dorothea accused PH of consenting to be governor again only because others had __________ed his fame and now he needed more.
- 4. PH envied those who wore the __________s of generals because they would be honored for their contributions to the war, but then they would be done and could step back and rest.
- 6. PH needed a personal assistant who shared his convictions, grasped the principles of liberty, who had sense and could work on his own _____________--without being told every move to make.
- 10. PH, Richard Henry Lee and Benjamin Harrison went twice to Washington's headquarters near Yorktown to see a bit of the action, but knowing Washington was rightfully ______________ with the battle, they didn't stay.
- 13. PH said they were needed by the ______________ to get this new country set up well.
- 15. The British tried to help Cornwallis by sea, but the French ships-of-the-line and ___________s kept them back.
- 16. PH begged Dorothea's _______________ to support him as governor two more years.
- 17. The weakness of the new United States government was _____________; a new constitution was needed.
- 18. King George had said he would ____________ before he would grant the colonies independence, but after Yorktown, he received their commissioners.
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- 1. PH said his daughter Martha and wife Dorothea could _____________ about their husbands who didn't earn any money.
- 3. John Fontain said that he was at Patrick's ___________.
- 5. When Cornwallis took his troops into the little strip of land that is Yorktown, Washington saw that he had an _______________ opportunity.
- 7. PH asked her to accept his governorship only because they lived in ______________ times, otherwise he wouldn't ask it of her.
- 8. There was a reception for Patrick, the new governor (again!) in the ____________ of the new capital building.
- 9. Dorothea sat on the ____________ and began a difficult conversation with Patrick.
- 11. PH spoke with ____________ about not living long enough to enjoy his home and family.
- 12. Dorothea was _____________d at Patrick about his probable consent to be governor, but her mood changed to concern when she became afraid for his health.
- 14. Washington, Greene and the others fighting for liberty, closed their ____________s on Cornwallis at Yorktown.