Which battles took place before the declaration of independence was adopted?

battles of lexington and concord
siege of boston
battle of yorktown
battle of bunker hill
battle of trenton
what were the provisions of the treaty of paris (1783)?

the u. s. received all land east of the mississippi except new orleans and florida.
england paid for colonial property it had damaged.
france received florida.
england recognized american independence.
england repatriated loyalists.
the u. s. would pay pre-war debts to england.
loyalist property would be returned.
the three major sections of the declaration of independence:

gave the basic organization of the new government
listed grievances against england
declared independence from england
stated political principles
stated the history of british colonization
summarized the bible on the subject of liberty

Which statement best explains the motivation for the narrator's mother to introduce her daughter to everyone they meet? from amy tan's "rules of the game."

Imagine you are reading a story about a character named dray. dray is captain of the basketball team and practices for hours after school in order to achieve his goals of playing in the nba. one day, dray decides that he hates basketball. he quits the team and takes up knitting instead. what is the introduction of this new plot point is an example of a. an anticlimaxb. a conclusionc. a contrivanced. a climax

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt