Chapter 6 Section 4: Fighting for Liberty on Many Fronts

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Chapter 6 section 4: Fighting for Liberty on Many Fronts (pages 186-189) I. Women Take Part in the War

A. Women take on more at home

B. Helping the Army

B.1. Joined their husbands at the battle front

B.1.a. Cared for the ______, washed ______, and cooked

B.1.b. Martha Washington

B.1.c. Betsy Ross – made first American flag?

B.2. Few took part in battle

B.2.a. Molly Pitcher – took her ______place at the Battle of ______

B.2.b. Some disguised as ______to fight as ______

C. New Attitudes

C.1. Women thought differently about their rights

C.1.a.

C.1.b.

C.2. Most men in Congress did not believe ______C.3. Revolution established ideals of ______and ______for later women’s rights movements II. African American Face Hard Choices

A. African Americans in the Colonies

A.1.More than ½ million in colonies A.2.Continental Congress did not allow blacks to join the ______

A.2.a.

A.2.b.

A.3.British offered ______to male slaves that served the ______

B. Joining the Fight

B.1. About ______blacks served from all colonies (except SC) B.2. 2,000 served in the ______

B.3.Some formed special (all-black) ______

B.4. Served as ______, ______, ______, and ______in white regiments

B.5. Difficult choices to fight in the war

B.5.a.

B.5.b.

C. Hoping for Freedom C.1. Many did flee their masters

C.2. Hoped war would end ______

C.2.a. Black Patriots – James Otis

C.2.b. ______spoke out against slavery

C.2.c. Slavery was declining in the ______

III. The War on the Western Frontier

A. Americans and British try to win support from ______

B. Indian Allies of the British

B.1. Cherokees battled ______in the South

B.2. Iroquois battled in the North

C. Victory at Vincennes

C.1. 1778 George Rogers Clark took British ______

C.2. Surprise attack on Vincennes

C.2.a. Spread out to make his numbers seem ______

C.2.b. British surrendered February 1779

D. Spanish Aid

D.1. Secret help of medicine, cloth, muskets and gunpowder to Americans from Bernardo de Galvez (governor of Sp. Louisiana)

D.2. ______officially declared war on British in 1779

IV. Fighting at Sea

A. Americans could do little against British navy B. Greatest American sea victory was in September 1779

B.1. Captain John Paul Jones – American naval ______

B.2. Captured the British ship, ______