| A | B |
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| First Continental Congress | Meeting where colonists decided how to respond to British rules |
| Second Continental Congress | Meeting where colonists decided how to react to Lexington and Concord |
| Declaration of Rights | 10 resolutions presented to the King |
| Patriots | Colonists who wanted independence |
| Redcoats | British soldiers |
| Minutement | local militia- ready to fight in a minute |
| Olive Branch Petition | Final attempt to restore harmony, refused by King G. |
| Continental Army | The army of the colonists |
| Loyalists | Colonists who remained loyal to Britain |
| George Washington | Commander of the Continental Army |
| Thomas Jefferson | Main author of the Declaration of Independence |
| Thomas Paine | Wrote a pamphlet called Common Sense |
| Common Sense | Pamphlet that argued that people should make rules, not Kings |
| Mercenaries | Soldiers that fight for money- Hessians |
| John Paul Jones | naval commander: Bonhomme Richard |
| General Cornwallis | British General |
| George Rogers Clark | American soldier, frontier leader. Worked with Natives to stay neutral |
| Treaty of Paris | Peace agreement, Britain recognized independence of US |
