https://padlet.com/jtenbrink_20/4cw5f5ei7mcm en-us 2017-11-02 12:56:12 UTC 2026-03-01 23:11:43 UTC hello@padlet.com jtenbrink_20 https://padlet.com/jtenbrink_20/4cw5f5ei7mcm/wish/202872636 An important document that expressed both levels of the revolution. It was a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. It first appeared in Philadelphia in January 1776.]]> 2017-11-02 12:59:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jtenbrink_20/4cw5f5ei7mcm/wish/202872636 jtenbrink_20 https://padlet.com/jtenbrink_20/4cw5f5ei7mcm/wish/202874396 Many of the delegates returned from the First Continental Congress, and there were new and important faces. The new delegates were Benjamin Franklin, Jon Hancock, and Thomas Jefferson.]]> 2017-11-02 13:03:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jtenbrink_20/4cw5f5ei7mcm/wish/202874396 jtenbrink_20 https://padlet.com/jtenbrink_20/4cw5f5ei7mcm/wish/202877567 The document had expressed the colonists' continued loyalty to the monarch and their desire for peace. It begged the king to halt the fighting until a solution could be found.]]> 2017-11-02 13:10:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jtenbrink_20/4cw5f5ei7mcm/wish/202877567 jtenbrink_20 https://padlet.com/jtenbrink_20/4cw5f5ei7mcm/wish/202878768 A statement of the reasons for the separation of the colonies from Britain. The committee chose Thomas Jefferson to draft the statement.]]> 2017-11-02 13:12:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jtenbrink_20/4cw5f5ei7mcm/wish/202878768 jtenbrink_20 https://padlet.com/jtenbrink_20/4cw5f5ei7mcm/wish/202881327 An 18th century movement that emphasized science and reason as key to improving society. Jefferson's political idea were influenced by the Enlightenment.]]> 2017-11-02 13:17:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jtenbrink_20/4cw5f5ei7mcm/wish/202881327 jtenbrink_20 https://padlet.com/jtenbrink_20/4cw5f5ei7mcm/wish/202882522 Rights that belong to you simply because your human. Jefferson included this into the Declaration of Independence.]]> 2017-11-02 13:20:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jtenbrink_20/4cw5f5ei7mcm/wish/202882522 jtenbrink_20 https://padlet.com/jtenbrink_20/4cw5f5ei7mcm/wish/202885324 A series of three attacks by the British on two hills controlled by the patriots. Nearly 1,100 of 2,400 British soldiers had been wounded or killed.]]> 2017-11-02 13:25:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jtenbrink_20/4cw5f5ei7mcm/wish/202885324 jtenbrink_20 https://padlet.com/jtenbrink_20/4cw5f5ei7mcm/wish/203726254 People killed, missing, or wounded. The patriots endured fewer than 400 casualties during the Battle of Bunker Hill.]]> 2017-11-06 03:30:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jtenbrink_20/4cw5f5ei7mcm/wish/203726254 jtenbrink_20 https://padlet.com/jtenbrink_20/4cw5f5ei7mcm/wish/203726555 People who remained loyal to Great Britain. 1000 loyalists went with the British to the Canadian city of Halifax.]]> 2017-11-06 03:32:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jtenbrink_20/4cw5f5ei7mcm/wish/203726555 jtenbrink_20 https://padlet.com/jtenbrink_20/4cw5f5ei7mcm/wish/203727071 Foreign soldiers who fight for pay. The colonists called theses troops ' "Hessians" because most of their offers came from the German province of Hesse.]]> 2017-11-06 03:37:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jtenbrink_20/4cw5f5ei7mcm/wish/203727071 jtenbrink_20 https://padlet.com/jtenbrink_20/4cw5f5ei7mcm/wish/203727892 Washington led 2,400 troops to Trenton, New Jersey. The Americans only suffered 5 casualties. ]]> 2017-11-06 03:43:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jtenbrink_20/4cw5f5ei7mcm/wish/203727892 jtenbrink_20 https://padlet.com/jtenbrink_20/4cw5f5ei7mcm/wish/203728568 The Battle of Saratoga was a series of American victories which took place around Saratoga, New York. Soon after these battles the Americans claimed a major victory when Burgoyne surrendered his army when he became surrounded by a much larger force than his own.]]> 2017-11-06 03:48:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jtenbrink_20/4cw5f5ei7mcm/wish/203728568