| A | B |
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| Phillis Wheatly | famous poet and slave who lived in Boston |
| Mercy Otis Warren | wrote political plays where the'bad guys' were British Loyalists |
| Molly (Pitcher) Hays | brought water to soldiers during the battle of Monmouth |
| Sarah Goddard | printed the Declaration of Independence |
| Jane Burgess | took over husband's blacksmith business during the war |
| George Rogers Clark | won two battles west of the Appalacian Mountains |
| General Cornwallis | surrendered his British troops to General Washington at Yorktown |
| John Paul Jones | American privateer; captain of the Bonhomme Richard |
| privateer | a captain given permission by one country to take the ships belonging to another country; a 'legal' pirate |
| purple heart | a military decoration designed by George Washington |
| Hessions | paid soldiers from Germany that soldiered for Britian |
| mercenaries | troops that would soldier for whom ever could pay them the most money |
| Valley Forge | where the continental Army spent the nasty winter of 1777-78 |
| Saratoga | because of this american won battle in NY state, the French decided to help the Americans |
| surveyor | a person who measures boundries and locations of plots of land |
