Staten Island Peace Conference

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/staten-island-peace-conference

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the location of conference?Billop Manor, Staten Island, New York
2. What is the date of conference?September 11, 1776
3. Why did the conference only last three hours?Because the British could not promise independence, and the Americans would not give up their Declaration, so talks stopped quickly.
4. Who was Admiral Lord Richard Howe and what could he do?He was a British naval officer sent to negotiate, but he could only offer pardons, not say the United States was a real country.

Rebellious Colonies: The thirteen North American colonies that were in revolt against British rule.
American Revolution: The war fought from 1775 to 1783 by which the thirteen American colonies won their independence from Great Britain.
Declaration of Independence: The formal statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, announcing that the thirteen American colonies regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
Loyalist: American colonists who remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War.