| A | B |
|---|
| unalienable rights | life, liberty, property |
| Common Sense | Pamplet written by Thomas Paine explaing why colonists needed independence |
| Thomas Jefferson | Primary author of the Declaration of Independence |
| guerilla warfare | hit and run tactics |
| usurpations | wrongful seizure of power |
| despotism | unlimited power |
| tyranny | oppressive power exerted by a government or ruler |
| George Washington | Leader of the Continental Army |
| Bunker Hill | showed the Colonists could fight with the British |
| Lexington-Concord | first battle of the Revolutionary war |
| Saratoga | Battle that led to greater foreign help and proved to be the turning point of the war |
| Yorktown | Battle that ended the Revolutionary War |
| Minutemen | name given to civilians ready to fight in a "minutes" notice |
| militia | citizen soldiers |
| France | foreign country that aided the colinists with a navy, money, and troops |
| Spain | Country that helped in the West |
| loyalists | colonists that still served the King and Britain |
| patriot | colonists that fought for independence |
| redcoat | term given to British soldiers |
| mercenaries | hired foreign soldiers |
