| A | B |
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| First Continental Congress | 1774 meeting of representatives for every colony except for Georgia to discuss the resonse to the Intolerable Acts |
| militia | volunteer army |
| Americam Revolution | the war between the 13 colonies and Great Britain for independence |
| minuteemen | men who wold be ready to fight at a minutes notice |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | was the British victory for British troops in Charleston Mass |
| Second Continental Congress | congress of American leaders who declared independence in 1776 |
| Continental Army | army formed in 1775 by the Seond Continenral Congress and led by George Washington |
| Paul Revere | an express rider who rode from Boston to Lexington warning everyone that the British were coming |
| George Washington | comander and chief of the Continental Army |
| John Hancock | president of the Second Continental Congress 1st to sign the Declaration of Independence |
