| A | B |
|---|
| Privateer | Privately owned, armed ship used by colonies |
| Mercenery | Paid soldier |
| Revolution | An attempt to overthrow a government |
| Loyalists | Colonists who suported the British |
| Patriots | Colonists who fought for freedom from British |
| Battle of Saratoga | Convinced the French to support colonists |
| Charles Cornwallis | British general who surrendered to colonists |
| Continental Army | Army of the colonists |
| Yorktown | British troops surrender to the Continental army |
| Treaty of Paris 1783 | The new country is born; boundaries defined |
| Boston Massacre | Crispus Attucks and group killed by British soldiers |
| Tea Act | Led to Boston Tea Party |
| Intolerable Acts | After Boston Tea Party, laws enacted by the Britsh |
| Militia | army made up of civilians |
| Minutemen | Colony soldiers who had to respond quickly |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | Colonists lose to Britsh but get more united |
| Lexigton/Concord | First battle of between Minutemen and Britsh |
| 4th July 1776 | Declaration of Independence |
| Casualties | People injured, killed, missing in a war |
| Townshend Act | Tax on all goods imported from England |
| Stamp Act | Tax on all printed material |
| Benedict Arnold | Patriot who turned traitor |
