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| Washington | This man was lead general of the Continental Army. |
| Benedict Arnold | This man tried to give the colonial fort at West Point to the British. |
| Saratoga | Victory in this battle convinced the French to support the colonists. |
| Common Sense | Inspirational pamphlet that sold nearly half a million copies in six months. |
| France and America | The Treaty of Alliance was between these two countries. |
| Valley Forge | This location was the Continental Army's winter camp in 1777-78. |
| First soldier from England killed at Concord | This was known as the “shot heard around the world”. |
| Molly Pitcher | This woman replaced her husband at his cannon when he fell. |
| King's Mountain | Battle at which loyalists under the command of Major Patrick Ferguson were slaughtered by the “over-mountain” boys in North Carolina . |
| Daniel Morgan | This was the backwoods leader who used the colonial militia’s tendency to run away to his strategic advantage while fighting in the South. |
| Cowpens | The battle at the river that took advantage of the fact that colonial milita often ran away |
| Guilford Courthouse | The battle where General Nathaniel Greene made a stand and kept Cornwallis from taking the South |
| Tarleton | A General of British and Loyalist Troops in the South |
| Deborah Sampson | This was the first woman officially to fight in an American uniform. |
| Lafayette | This Frenchman fought with the colonists at Brandywine and Yorktown and helped convince the French to enter the war. |
| Thomas Jefferson | This man was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. |
| Delaware | The river that Washington crossed Christmas night before the battle at Trenton |
| Hessians | German soldiers fighting for the British |
| Bunker Hill | Early battle at which soldiers were told "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes." The colonists only lost because they ran out of ammo. |
| Minutemen | Name given to colonists who were ready to become soldiers with little advance notice. |
