| A | B |
|---|
| "Common Sense" | book written by Thomas Paine |
| Declaration of Independence | written by Thomas Jefferson not Ben Franklin |
| Hessians | Hired German soldiers |
| loyalists | people loyal to Great Britain (dumb people) |
| John Paul Jones | famous naval captain |
| Revenue | money made from taxes |
| Washington | commander in chief |
| Bunker Hill | one of the first battles of the Revolutionary War |
| Valley Forge | place were Washington trained his troops |
| Boston Massacre | 5 colonist killed by British soldiers |
| Lexington | first battle of the Revolutionary War |
| Concord | second battle of the Revolutionary War |
| Great Awakining | revival in which preachers warned of God's anger |
| Edward Braddock | Unsuccesfully commanded expedtion to capture Fort Duquesne |
| Bay Psalm Book | First book printed in the colonies |
| Iroquois League | Group that sided with the British during the French and Indian War |
| John Locke | English writer who said that government should protect people's natural rights |
| Enlightenment | A movement that emphasized science and reason as guides to life |
| Anne Dudley Bradstreet | Puritan whos poetry was the first American poetry published |
| William Dawes | rode to warn that the British were coming |
| Ben Franklin | Author of Poor Richards Almanac |
| Indentured servants | lowest class in the colonies made up of slaves |
| Continental Currency | Paper money used by the colonists during the Revolutionary War |
| Parliment | Lawmaking body of England |
| Boycott | Agreement among colonists not to buy any English goods |
| Pulaski | Polish nobleman who enlisted in the American army and served as an officer until killed in battle |
| Nathan Hale | American spy killed by the British |
| Lafayette | French general who assisted the Americans |
| Saratoga | turning point of the war |
| Boston Tea Party | the dumping of tea into the Boston harber |
