guided reading 2-2 history

Governor Dunmore of Virginia proclaimed that ----- enslaved by rebels would be freed if they though for the loyalists

Africians

what showed the colonial milt could stand up to one of the worlds most feared armies

Battle of Bunker Hill

by may 1775 militia troops had surrounded ------ trapping the British inside

Boston

what expressed loyalty to the king, but condemned the Corrective Acts

Declaration

Americans who backed the British side were know as

Loyalists or Tories

the Coercive Acts , passed in 1774 were intended to punish---- for the Boston Tea Party and end colonial challenges to British authority

Massachutees

what stated that the colonies were still loyal to George III and asked him to call off hostiles and resolve the situation peacefully

Olive Branch Petition

who regarded the king as their protector aganist the planters and merchants who controlled the local goverment

back country farmers

the coercive acts violated several traditional English rights , including the right to trail by

jury of one's peers

Thomas Jefferson suggested that each colony create

Committee of correspndence

Thomas Paine's ------ argued that King George was a tyrant, and that it was time to declare Independence from Britain

Common Sense

the Second Continental Congress adopted the militia army and named it what

Continental Army

unable to reach a compromise with Britian, the ------ increasingly began to act like an independent government

Continental Congress