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- 5. congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs.
- 8. Name appears on a petition in support of the king's government in 1774.
- 12. newly independent sovereign states, and no longer under British rule.
- 13. formal written request, typically one signed by many people, appealing to authority with respect to a particular cause
- 14. heroine of the American Revolutionary War noted for her exploits against Loyalists in the Georgia back
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- 1. governing body of representatives selected to lead one of the original thirteen colonies.
- 2. member of the National Guard or other organized military force.
- 3. loyalists from Georgia and the Carolinas were camped on the creek, which flows into the Little River in Wilkes County, Ge
- 4. person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them.
- 6. Revolutionary War.American colonists who remained loyal to the British Crown during the American revolution
- 7. slave who fought against the British in the American Revolutionary War.
- 9. served as a representative to the Continental Congress and as governor of Georgia (1783-84).
- 10. served in Georgia's colonial legislature, in the Second Continental Congress, and as president of Georgia's Revolutionary
- 11. was the youngest signer of the declaration of independence.
- 15. refuse allegiance to and oppose by force an established government or ruling authority.
