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| Lexington and Concord | The first battle of the American Revolution |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | the first MAJOR battle of the American Revolution, it boosted colonial confidence |
| Second Continental Congress | Met in Philadelphia in May of 1775, agreed to create a Continental Army and put George Washington in command of the army |
| Olive Branch | a letter sent to George III asking for more freedom |
| Thomas Jefferson | wrote the Declaration of Independence |
| Declaration of Independence | 1776, Letter sent to the British telling what the colonists believe and why they wanted to break free from British Rule |
| Fort Ticonderoga | Continental Army captures British cannons at this battle |
| Battle of Boston | The Continental Army uses the cannons captured at Fort Ticonderoga to force the British out of Boston |
| Hessians | German soldiers paid by the British to fight for them |
| Battle of Trenton | Washington secretly crosses the Delaware and defeats the British and the Hessians |
| Battle of Saratoga | The Continental Army wins the battle and convinces the French to join the fight against the British |
| Siege of Yorktown | 1781, The British surrender ending the Revolutionary War |
| Treaty of Paris | 1783, Peace agreement between the Americans, the British, as well as the France offically ending the Revolutionary War |
| Continental Army | army made up of soldiers from the 13 colonies |
| mercenaries | paid soldiers from one country who fight for another country |
| minutemen | members of the militia who were ready to fight with only a moment's notice |
| patriot | a colonist who supported the cause of independence |
| loyalist | a colonist who supported the cause of the British |
| red coat | a british soldier |
| merchant | someone who buys and sells goods |
| boycott | to refuse to buy goods or items from a person or organization |
| protest | to complain about something or object to it |
| Homespun | fabric made in the home, made in America and not by the British |
| effigy | a dummy that is suppose to look like the real person |
| liberty tree | a regular meeting place for Patriots to meet and express to views about the British |
| King George III | The King of Britian at the time of the Revolutionary War |
| Spinning Bee | A gathering of people, usually women who encouraged the making of thread in the colonies |
| Paul Revere | A Patriot and a silversmith, he created the famous picture of the Boston massacre and also warned colonist by horseback that the British were coming |
| Colonel William Prescott | General who led the patriots at the battle of Bunker Hill, famous for giving the order "DonÕt shoot until you see the whites of their eyes |
| Green Mountain Boys | Group of soldiers lead by Ethan Allen who capture Fort Ticonderoga |
| Henry Knox | Patriot colnel who brought the cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston |
| John Burgouyne | British General who tried to divide the United States in half along the Hudson River, but was defeated by the Patriots at the Battle of Saratoga |
| Peter Salem | African American that fought at the battles of Concord and Saratoga and believed to have killed Major Pitcairn at the Battle of Bunker Hill |
| James Armistad | African American who was a spy in the Revolutionary War |
| Phillis Wheatly | was an African American writer who wrote poems that supported the Patriots |
| Mary Ludwig Hayes | Nicknamed Molly Pitcher, she brought pitchers of water to men as they fought on the battle field |
| Charles Cornwallis | British General who surrendered at Yorktown |
| Ben Franklin, John Jay, and John Adams | Americas representatives who signed the Treaty of Paris to officially mark the end of the Revolutionary war |
