Saratoga, 1777
snipers
guerilla warfare
John Burgoyne
Banastre Tarleton
Henry Knox
Fort Ticonderoga
"the times that try men's souls"
Valley Forge
Hessians
revenge, retribution & retaliation
"Light-Horse" Harry Lee
Surrender at Yorktown -- 1781
Peace of Paris
Key Figures:
John Adams
Abigail Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
Phillis Wheatley
James Madison
Alexander Hamilton
Northwest Territory
ordinance of 1785
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Issues from within:
Shay's Rebellion
reciprocity
primogeniture
manumission (manumit)
chattel property
Politics/Our national government:
Whigs
Tories
Articles of Confederation
democracy
republicanism
Virginia Plan
New Jersey Plan
mob rule/mobocracy
federalism
Federalists
Anti-federalists
the Bill of Rights, as well as Amendments 11-12.