Lesson 6 The Declaration of Independence

King of England during the American Revolution

• Thomas Paine

• King James

• King Henry

• King Edward

• King George III

a leader of the American Revolution and a famous person who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

• Thomas Paine

• Patrick Henry

A group of delegates who managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence

• First Continental Congress

• Continental Army

• United Nations

• Iroquois Confederation

• Second Continental Congress

The American army during the American Revolution

• minutemen

• militia

• Redcoats

• Continental Army

Elected by the Second Continental Congress to be Commander of the Continental Army and later became the first president of the United States

• John Hancock

• Thomas Jefferson

• Patrick Henry

• John Adams

• George Washington

The colonists fought the British until they ran out of ammunition here.The Briish won in the end. It ended any type of peace between the colonists and British. This battle leads towards the discussion of the Declaration of Independence.

• Lexington and Concord

• Boston Tea Party

• Battle of the Bulge

• The Olive Branch Petition

• Battle of Bunker Hill (Breed's Hill)

freedom from control by another government or country

• Common Sense

• monopoly

• tyranny

• emancipation

• Independence

a formal request

• Declaration of Independence

• monopoly

• Second Continental Congress (1775)

• natural rights

• Petition

A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that claimed the colonies had a right to be an independent nation

• The Olive Branch Petition

• Common Sense

• Continental Army

• fundamental rights

the document written to declare the American colonies as an independent nation, free from British rule. Thomas Jefferson's explanation why American colonies should be free from England.

• The Preamble

• US Constitution

• Proclamation of 1793

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Declaration of Independence