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| American Revolution | America's fight against Britain for the independence |
| George Washington | commander-in-chief of the Continental Army |
| Thomas Jefferson | wrote the Declaration of Independence |
| Marquis de Lafayette | a French aristocrat that played a major role in both the American and French Revolutions |
| Lexington and Concord | the first shots of the American Revolution were fired here |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | first major battle of the American Revolution |
| Battle of Saratoga | this battle is considered the turning point of the American Revolution |
| Yorktown | the place in Virginia where the British army surrendered to the Americans |
| Declaration of Independence | the document in which America declared it's independence from Britain |
| Articles of Confederation | the United States' first constitution which set up a very weak central government |
| Sugar Act | a tax the British Parliament put on sugar |
| Stamp Act | a law that required colonists to buy official stamps to put on legal documents |
| Thomas Paine | the American patriot who wrote a pamphlet called "Common Sense" |
| Intolerable Acts | a set of harsh laws passed by the English Parliament to punish Bostonians for the Boston Tea Party |
| Quatering Act | law that required colonists to house British soldiers |
| Patriot | someone who supported the fight for independence |
| France | The European country that was most helpful to the Americans in winning the war against England |
| King George III | who was the king of England during the American Revolution |
| Boston Massacre | a clash between some colonists and British soldiers in which five Americans were killed |
| Boycott | refusing to buy a certain good or service |
| Sons of Liberty | a group of men in Boston who formed to take protest actions against England |
| Loyalists | Americans who did not believe in the fight for independence |
| Townshend Acts | laws that set taxes on glass, paint, lead, tea and other goods that the colonies imported |
