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Cornell Notes from American Revolution Lecture Part 3

King George the III

The son of king gorge II


Believed all people should be loyal
Deaf to the colonel rights

Lord North

British prime minister


He also believed that colonist could not have less rights
and lower taxes then the British citizens

Sam Adams

Helped organize agents the stamp act


Created the sons of liberty, and the comities of
correspondents
Organized the protest on the Boston massacre
And organized the Boston tea party

Paul Revere

Leader of the sons of liberty


Depicted the Boston massacre, which shaped a negative
public opinion for the British king and the British people
Famous rider who warned the minutemen about the
British soldiers invading Lexington and concort
Famous only because his name rhymed with the famous
pome

James Otis

Frames the legal argument for colonial rights


Speaks agents the British tax laws

John Adams

Helps form a self-government for the colonies, beleved of


the right
Deafened the British soldiers involved in the Boston
massacre
Proved that the soldier did not act in a massacre, rather
than protect their lives

Abigail Adams

Wife to John Adams


Wrote to her husband around the time of the Declaration
of independence, talking about womens rights

John Hancock

Because he was a smuggler he became rich


The first to sign the D.O.I
His signature was big because he wanted the king to see
it first

Benjamin Franklin

Famous throughout all of the colonies, for he was a


writer, publisher, and a scientist
Represented the colonel view to the British parliament,
Served as a French diplomat to convince the French to
help fight in the American Revolution agents the British

Outspoken member of the house of burgess


Inventor of the phrase: give me liberty or give me death,

Patrick Henry

and also: taxation without representation is tyranny

Thomas Jefferson

A member of the house of burgess


Main author of the D.O.I
3rd president of the U.S.A
Founder of the comities of correspondents

George Washington

Hero of the French and Indian war


Retired from the military, and became a large land and
plantation owner
Represented Virginia in 1st and 2nd continental congress
Leader of the continental army
1st president of the U.S.A

Lyman Hall

Graduated from Yale studding medicine


Bought land in Georgia
Became involved in revolutionary politics, and earned
the unflattering attention of governor James Wight
Won the election for the continental congress
Re-elected to the second continental congress, where
he signed the D.O.I

Button Gwinnett

involved in revolutionary politics


commander of Georgias continental molisha
Also elected to attend the continental congress
Signed the D.O.I
Killed in a gun dual between general lactone Macintosh
Ran an unsuccessful campaign for governor
His signer is valuable because he is the only signer to
die at a young age

George Walton

A successful lawyer and important early GA statesmen


Though he was the youngest delegate to the 2nd
Continental Congress, he was appointed to serve as the
Secretary
One of GA s three Declaration signers
Was wounded during the British attack on Savannah
and held as a P.O.W.
An active politician after the war, he served as U.S.
Congressman, GA Chief Justice, GA Governor and U.S.
Senator

Siege of Savannah

In the Fall of 1779, American and French forces


prepared to attack and regain control of Savannah from
the British.
They attack, on October 9, lasted only 90 minutes, and
the Americans were beaten back, losing thousands of
soldiers.
The attack on Savannah was the second bloodiest battle
of the Revolutionary War.

Battle of Kettle Creek

The most famous casualty of the battle was a Polish


soldier who had come to fight for the colonists, Count
Casimir Pulaski. Both Pulaski County and Fort Pulaski
are named in his honor.

A group of 700 British soldiers and Loyalists marched


from North Carolina and camped on a small stream
called Kettle Creek
A group of Patriots from the Georgia backcountry, led
by Elijah Clarke, marched to meet the British at Kettle
Creek in an early morning surprise attack in February
1779
Elijah Clarkes victory forced the British to withdraw
from Augusta

Elijah Clarke

Austin Dabney

Nancy Hart

Cornwallis Surrenders

The hero of the Battle of Kettle Creek


While the Patriots were struggling to keep their hopes
alive, Clarke led small groups through the Carolina
frontier to attack the British with guerilla tactics.
In 1781, Clarke returned to Georgia from Carolina and
helped the Patriots regain control of Augusta
A slave who joined the Whigs
The only black Whig soldier at the Battle of Kettle Creek
Seriously wounded at Kettle Creek, Dabney was cared
for by Giles Harris, a white friend
Granted his freedom by the government of Georgia in
1786
Chose to work for Giles Harris family for the rest of his
life
According to legend, served as a Whig spy at Kettle
Creek
Killed possibly six invading British soldiers after getting
them drunk on wine when they demanded she cook for
them
Today, Hart County is the only County in Georgia
named after a woman
With the help of the French, George Washington
defeated the British at the battle of Yorktown
Cornwallis Surrenders to the American forces

The War Ends!

When the war ends America gains its independents


Under the treaty of Paris the British recognizes the U.S
as an independent nation
The border extended to pacific ocean, to the Mississippi
River
The Sothern border stops at Florida
America agreed to pay the loyalist for the land they lost
during the war

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