American Revolution

Meeting of representatives to draft the Declaration of Independence

Allies with the colonies during the Revolutionary War

A technical victory for the British, but a moral victory for the Patriots

citizen army

Replaced Horatio Gates as General in the South after Gates was disgraced at Camden.

Besides the British, the patriots had to deal with what other major problem?

The Declaration of Independence was based on the ideas of:

Thomas Heyward, Thomas Lynch, Arthur Middleton, John Rutledge

First battle of the Revolutionary War

loyal to the king and Britain

Francis Marion, Thomas Sumter, Andrew Pickens

Turning point for the patriots in the South

Francis Marion was called the:

Non-traditional style of fighting; sneak attacks

fighting for independence