Louis B. Vega
SOCIAL STUDIES
8TH Grade
Chapter 5: Section 3
LIBERTY OR DEATH
The
Second Continental Congress
-met at Philadelphia
Olive Branch Petition
-2nd letter for the protection
against Parliament
-Congress created official army
The
American Army
-Washington, Southerner, union eg.
Presidential Election
-used to orders, taught to march
-weeding out/wippings
-14,000. @ Harvard dorms
-ordinary, no uniforms
-own supplies, guns
-muskets (close range <50’
-lacked discipline
-not popular
-appointed (upper class)
-snipers/Penn rifle-150’
-deterred English from inlisting
The
British Army
- @ 1775 only 4000
-from aristrocracy
-members of Parliament
-buy commission
->discipline/800 lashes for 1 pinch
-since of accomplishment
-criminals could inlist
-bayonets
-slaves fought to earn freedom
Washington’s
First Victory
Dorchester Heights
-after Bunker Hill, 4 months at Boston
-Americans surrounded with guns at DH
-choice of destroying Boston or leaving
-sailed to Halifax with exiles
-1/5 of pop were Loyalists (Tories)
-Whigs for independence
…no military presence put came back by the
Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776
United States of America