| A | B |
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| George Washington | Continental Army Commander and President of the Constitution Convention. |
| Henry Knox | Important assistant to GW during the revolution and first Secretary of War. |
| Tories | Loyalists during the revolution. |
| Hessian | German mercenaries who fought for the British. |
| Marquis de Lafayette | French military leader who became GW's aide-to-camp. |
| Battle of Saratoga | Victory by the Americans that led to French assistance during the Revolution. |
| Valley Forge | Winter camp of Continental Army in winter of 1777. |
| Frederick von Steuben | Prussian mercenary who was called the Drill Master of the Revolution. He trained Americans in the art of European warfare. |
| Joseph Brant | English educated Mohawk chief who sided with the British. |
| Lord Cornwallis | British commander who surrendered his army at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781. |
| Nathaniel Greene | Harassed Cornwallis throughout the south from March to September of 1781, thus inflicting heavy casualties. |
| Peace of Paris | Also known as the Treaty of Paris of 1783. It established the boundaries of the United States along with British recognition of the United States. |
| "Republican Motherhood" | The belief that if the republic was to live, it was important to educate women. This was encouraged by poet Judith Sargent Murray. |
| Northwest Ordinance | Created as one of the few successes of the Articles of Confederation, this act provided for the orderly settlement of the Northwest Territory. This provided for five slave-free states. |
| Newburgh Conspiracy | Attempt by the Continental Army to offer GW with the dictatorship of America in 1783. He refused the offer, thus guaranteeing democracy in America. |
| Shays's Rebellion | The 1785 revolt in Massachusetts of farmers who were losing their farms due to tax and nonpayment issues. This revolt convinced many law makers that the Articles of Confederation were not working. |
| Connecticut Plan | Compromise at the Constitutional Convention which combined the VA and NJ Plans to create a bicameral congress. |
| Federalsim | The working together of local, state and national governments for the good of the American people. |
| The Federalist Papers | A series of 85 essays written by Madison, Hamilton, and Jay to convince the people of New York to ratify the Constitution. |
| George Mason | Virginian who refused to sign the Constitution because it lacked a Bill of Rights. He later authored the Bill of Rights in 1797. |
