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Sea Dogs

English adventurers or pirates at the time of Elizabeth I of England. They were active from 1560 to 1605.

Continental Army

Army formed after the Revolutionary War startedGeorge Washington – commander in chiefComposed of local militias (13 colonies)

Flora MacDonald

Push Factors

Push Factors: Conditions that drive people to leave their homes Examples: Land scarce in home country Political and/or religious persecution Revolutions Poverty

Pull Factors

Pull Factors: Conditions that attract people to a new area Examples: Promise of freedom (religious and political) Hope for a new life Industry Jobs Land “Streets paved with gold”

Heath Patent

Created colony of Caralana

Battle of Cowpens

(January 17, 1781) was a decisive victory by American Revolutionary forces under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan, in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War. It was a turning point in the reconquest of South Carolina from the British.

Hugenots

Members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France from the sixteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Since the seventeenth century, Huguenots have been commonly designated "French Protestants"

Richard Caswell

the 1st and 5th governor of the North Carolina, serving from 1776 to 1780 and from 1784 to 1787.

Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge

was a battle of the American Revolutionary War fought near Wilmington, North Carolina on February 27, 1776. The victory of North Carolina Patriots over Scottish Loyalists helped build political support for the revolution and increased recruitment of additional soldiers into their forces.

Guerilla Warfare

use of military tactics, like ambushes, sabotage, raids, the element of surprise, and extraordinary mobility to harass a larger and less-mobile traditional army, or strike a vulnerable target

Circumnavigate

literally, "navigation of a circumference" – refers to travelling all the way around an island, a continent, or the entire planet Earth.

Unalienable Rights

Natural rights

Partisans

Devoted to or biased in support of a party, group, or cause

Minute

Minutemen

An armed man pledged to be ready to fight on a minute's notice just before and during the Revolutionary War in the United States.

Valley Forge

It was the site of the headquarters of the Continental Army under George Washington from December 1777 to June 1778 during the American Revolution.

Yorktown

Site of Cornwallis's surrender of the British forces (1781) in the American Revolution.

Battle of Kings Mountain

Oct. 7, 1780 Battle in the American Revolution between American revolutionaries and loyalists. About 2,000 frontiersmen were assembled to resist the British advance into North Carolina; they surrounded the 1,100 soldiers, mainly loyalists from New York and South Carolina, on Kings Mountain, S.C., near the border with North Carolina. The frontiersmen killed or captured almost all the loyalists, and the battle marked the beginning of the war's turn against the British.

Amnesty

pardon granted by a government

Radical

Departing markedly from the usual or customary; extreme

Exports

1. To send or transport (a commodity, for example) abroad, especially for trade or sale

Social sciences

The study of human society and of individual relationships in and to society

Stamp Act

Britain put a tax on all printed materials

Bath

NC’s first town, 1705

New Bern

1st state capital in NC

Parliament

A national representative body having supreme legislative powers within the state

Edenton Tea party

Women of Edenton,NC refuse to buy English tea

Townshend Acts

British put a tax on glass, tea, lead, paint, paperMade 13 colonies pay a tax on these things

Battle of Guildford Courthouse

Battle during the Revolutionary War at the Guildford Courthouse in Greensboro, NC

monopoly

situation in which a single company owns all or nearly all of the market for a given type of product or service