| A | B |
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| John Adams | defended soldiers accused of Boston Massacre |
| Samuel Adams | organized the Boston Tea Party |
| Georgia | only colony not present at First Continental Congress |
| George III | King of England during the American Revolution |
| minutemen | colonists ready to fight at a minute's notice |
| Paul Revere | warned the colonists that the British were coming |
| Shot heard 'round the world | the start of the Revolution |
| Battle of Lexingtion | first battle of the Revolutionary War |
| Redcoats | name given to British soldiers |
| George Washington | commander of the Contrinental Army |
| Fort Ticonderoga | battle which gave American troops canons and guns |
| siege | military blockade of a city or fort |
| on to Concord marched the foe | to sieze the arsenal theire, you know |
| Colonel William Prescott | "Hold your fire until you see the white's of their eyes!" |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | moral victory for the Americans; if not for lack of ammunition, Americans would have won the battle |
| Thomas Payne | wrote Common Sense |
| Common Sense | pamphlet stating that no one person should be too powerful |
| John Hancock | president of the Continental Congress |
| Committee to write the Declaration of Indpendence | John Adams, Ben Franklin, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, Thomas Jefferson |
| Thomas Jefferson | author of the Declaration of Independence |
| natural rights of individuals | life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness |
| July 4, 1776 | date the Declaration of Independence was approved by the Contitnental Congress |
| Patriot | those who chose to support independence |
| Loyalist | those who chose to support the British |
| Abigail Adams | believed women should be given greater rights under the Declaration of Independence |
| women and slaves | groups not mentioned in the Declaration of Indpendence |
| "all men are created equal" | controversial phrase in the Declaration of Independence |
| Mum Bett | slave who sued for her freedom in 1781 |
| zero | number of ships the colonists had at the beginning of the Revolutionary War |
| large military force, financial resources | British advantages during American Revolution |
| fought for chause in which they believed in | advantage for American colonists during Revolutionary War |
| mercenaries | foreign soldiers hired to fight in a war |
| Mary Ludwig Hayes | Molly Pitcher |
| Debrah Sampson | disguised herself as a man to fight in the Revolutionary War |
| Canada | possible 14th American colony |
| New York | General William Howe defeats George Washington, driving him from Manhattan |
| Hessians | hired German soldiers |
| December 26, 1776 | George Washington captures Trenton from the Hessians after crossing the Delaware River |
| Casmir Pulaski | Polish soldier who trained American cavalry units |
| Thaddeus Kosciusko | Polish engineer who helped the Patriots build bridges |
| Battle of Saratoga | American victory that became the turning point of the Revolutionary War |
| Spain and France | countries allied with the Americans during the Revolutionary War |
| Valley Forge | one fourth of the American army died here during the winter |
| Baron Friedrich Von Steuben | German general who drilled American troops at Valley Forge |
| John Paul Jones | America's first admiral; "I have not yet begun to fight!" |
| George Rogers Clark | frontiersman who organized the Patriots' Western campaign |
| General Charles Cornwallis | led the British campaign in the South |
| guerrilla warfare | swift hit-and-run attacks used by American forces |
| Benedict Arnold | American general who switched to the British side during the Revolutionary War |
| October 19, 1781 | Cornwallis surrenders at the Battle of Yorktown |
| Treat of Paris of 1783 | the United States is officially recognized as an indpendent nation |
