1. It was George Washington who was chosen to comand the continental army.
2. The olive branch petition was an attempt to avoid going to war, to assert the colonists rights while pledging their loyalty the the monarchy.
3. Thomas Paine wrote a pamphlet titled "Common Sense" to persuade the American colonists to seperate from Britain.
4. Thomas Jefferson was one of the main writers of the Declarion of Independence. The English documents he drew upon while writing it was the Bill of rights and the Magna Carta.
5. The American colonists who wanted independance from Britian were known as patriots.
6. The battle of Saratoga was the 1st American victory in the Revlutionary war.
7. It was France and Spain who joined America to fight Britain in the Revolutionary war.
8. Guerilla tactics used during the Revolutionary war confused the British army. It slowed the British down, and extended the war which increased Britain's cost in fighting the war.
9. The Treaty of Paris was a peace agreement that ended the Revolutionary war, granting indepence to the American colonists.
