| A | B |
|---|
| blockade | is the shutting off oa port to keep people or supplies from moving in or out |
| traitor | a person who betrays his or her country |
| cavalry | troops on horseback |
| neutral | not taking sides |
| ratify | approved |
| Nancy Ward | Cherokee leader whose trust Americans betrayed |
| George Rogers Clark | leader whose Virginia frontier fighters captured forts at Kashakia and Cahokia |
| John Paul Jones | captain of the Bonhomme Richard who defeated the British warship serapis |
| Molly Pitcher | nickname for Mary Ludwig Hays |
| Ethan Allen | leader of the Green Mountain Boys |
| Thomas Paine | author of common sense and the crisis |
| Thomas Jefferson | writer of the Declaration of Independence |
| Moore's Creek Bridge | battle that is sometimes called th Lexington and Concord of the South |
| Benedict Arnold | traitor that secretly offered to turn West Point over to the British |
| de Grasse | admiral of a fleet that kept British ships out of Chesapeake Bay |
| Yorktown | where Cornwallis and his army camped in the spring of 1781 |
