CHAPTER 7

The War for Independence

DAILY TEN

Read CRCT book page 44 – 45 Loyalists and Patriots

answer questions 111 – 112

Elijah Clarke and the Battle of Kettle Creek

answer questions 113 – 115

DAILY TEN CH 7.1

1. 2nd Continental Congress

2. Battle of Bunker Hill

3. Common sense

4. Hessians

IN PHILADELPHIATHE SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESSOpened on May 10, 1775

Congress voted to cut off trade with Georgia

Created an American army

Continental Army

They asked George Washington to command

Washington accepted to serve without pay

GEORGIA TAKES ACTIONNoble W. Jones holds a meeting

The first open act of rebellion in Georgia

Noble W. Jones, Joseph Habersham and other Patriots

Stole 600 pounds of gunpowder

Governor Wright asks for troops

Letter is intercepted “everything is under control”

THE SECOND PROVINCIAL CONGRESS

Convenes on July 4, 1775

102 delegates representing 10-12 parishes

Delegates elected 5 representatives

Voted to join boycott of British goods

Adopted a set of resolutions Claimed their rights a British Threatened to declare independence

THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL

CONGRESS HOPED FOR PEACEFUL SOLUTION

Wrote the Olive Branch Petition

Asking the king to restore peace

King George III rejected the Olive Branch Petition New acts to punish the colonies Blocked American portsSent 10,000 Hessians - German soldiers

“When once these rebels have felt a smart blow, they will submit”

BATTLE OF MOORES CREEKNorth Carolina governor planned to join his Loyalist troops

British soldiers near Wilmington Patriots surprised the Loyalists Patriots took planks off a bridge over Moores Creek

50 Loyalists killed 850 captured Patriots lost only 1 man

“LEXINGTON AND CONCORD OF THE SOUTH”

THE FIRST FIGHTING IN GEORGIA On March 1776 The British wanted to buy supplies in Savannah Harbor

Governor Wright wanted to cooperate

The colonists set fire on some rice boats

The British sailed away Took Governor Wright with them Ended Royal government in Georgia

THOMAS PAINEJanuary 1776

Pamphlet

Patriot’s point of view

Urged Americans to declare independence

Thomas Paine

CH 7.2

DAILY TEN CH 7.2

1. Declaration of Independence

2. Thomas Jefferson

3. Button Gwinnett

4. Lyman Hall

5. G. Walton

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

On June 7, 1776 Richard Henry Lee of Virginia calls for independence

Thomas Jefferson is chosen

In Georgia Button Gwinnet, George Walton, and Lyman Hall became the signers of the Declaration of Ind.

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

Congress made two minor changes

Jefferson placed blame on Britain

Passage blaming King George III for slavery

Congress adopted the Declaration on July 4, 1776

Georgia delegates were the last to sign

WORDLE You need to assign

Secretary-writeReader-readSpokesperson

Write a paragraph using at least fifteen words on the Wordle

Consult your textbook to help you put together this paragraph

CH 7.3

WASHINGTON CROSSES THE DELAWARE

Christmas Night 1776

Entered Trenton, NJ

Surprising the Hessian troops there

DAILY TEN CH 7.31. Battle of Kettle Creek

2. Elijah Clarke

3. Nancy Hart

4. Austin Dabney

Austin Dabney p 46answer questions 116 – 117

Nancy Hart p 46 - 47answer questions 118 – 119

Write the long answer. EX A – the femaleMilitia

Read CRCT book p 46

THE SIEGE OF SAVANNAH

December 1778 the British captured Savannah, then Sunbury and Midway

Early September 1779 - 4,000 French soldiers joined the Americans off Tybee Island

They lay siege To Savannah The attack was unsuccessful and Savannah remained in British hands

Augusta was captured by the British, with the help of the Creek, in January 1779

THE BATTLE OF KETTLE CREEK

February 1779 Colonel Elijah Clarke

This was a major Patriot victory

He was able to take badly needed weapons and horses

The most important battle fought in Georgia

WAR ENDS IN GEORGIA

In 1781 Colonel Clarke led Georgia and South Carolina troops to take Augusta back

For Georgians the war ended when the British left Savannah in July 1782

AUSTIN DABNEY

Revolutionary War heroFreeborn mulatto – mixed parentageArrived in Georgia with Richard Aycock

Served in the revolutionary war on behalf of a white man

He was granted a piece of land by the state of Georgia in recognition for his service

NANCY HART

She gathered information and passed it along to patriots

One story was about how group of Tories invaded her home. She served them wine and got them drunk.

She then took their guns and shot two of the men.

She also fought in the Battle of Kettle Creek on February 14, 1779.

Hart County and Hartwell – in NE Georgia – named after her

Hart is the only county in Georgia named for a woman

THE ROAD TO

REVOLUTION GAME

KETTLE CREEK – “THE HORNET'S NEST”

significant advance for the American cause protected the settlers of the upcountry from

the continued ravages of militant Tory bands led to an increased amount of pride and

patriotism. Americans to secure almost 600 horses and

a large quantity of arms and supplies prevented the British from wholly occupying

the State of Georgia. the following year when the British threat to

Augusta forced the Georgia State Capitol to be removed to Heard’s Fort on Fishing Creek in Wilkes County.

GEORGIA DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

RAFT

Role – Nancy Hart

Audience – Patriots

Format – Warning message

Topic – You report loyalists’

plan to surprise Colonel Elijah

Clarke

BATTLE OF YORKTOWN