| A | B |
|---|
| Mercenary | Person hired by a country to be a soldier |
| Traitor | Someone who betrays his or her country |
| Patriot | Colonists who favored war against Britain. |
| Preamble | Introduction |
| Washington | Lost more than won as the Commander of the Continental Army |
| Allies | Nations that work together to achieve a common goal. |
| Common Sense | A pamphlet wrote by Thomas Paine who told the colonists it's time to make the break. |
| Nathan Hale | Young Connecticut officer who spied on the British and made a declaration before he died. |
| Calvary | Troops on horseback |
| Valley Forge | Makeshift camp during the cold winter of 1777-1778 |
| Marquis de Lafayette | French ally who brought trained soldiers to help the Patriots. |
| Won the battle of Yorktown | American |
| Won the battle of Trenton | American |
| Won the battle of Princeton | American |
| Won the battle of Savannah | British |
| Won the battle of Long Island | British |
| Ratify | To approve |
| Ethan Allen | Led a group of Vermonters known as the Green Mountain Boys |
| John Hancock | Signed the Declaration first and wrote it big so King George III could read it. |
| Ticonderoga | British fort seized by the Green Mt. Boys. |
| Sam Adams | Father of the Revolution. |
| Thomas Jefferson | Wrote the Declaration of Independence. |
| Benedict Arnold | Traitor who joined the British |
| George Rogers Clark | Captured British forts in the Ohio Valley. |
| Bernardo de Galvez | Spanish Governor of Louisiana who supplied aid to the Americans secretly. |
| Francis Marion | Used guerrilla tactics to harass the British in the South. |
| Hessians | German soldiers the British hired to fight |
| George Washington | Lost more than he won, Commander of the Continental Army |
| Von Steuben | Trained American troops at Valley Forge, Prussian officer. |
| Natural rights of man | Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness |
| Loyalist | Faithful to England |
| Victory at Yorktown | Convinced British to end the war |
| Thomas Paine | Wrote "Crisis" and "Common Sense" |
| William Howe | British General who captured Philadelphia |
| Cornwallis | British General |
| George III | British ruler |
| Won the battle at Saratoga | American |
| Abigail Adams | Stood up for American Women's interests |
