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| First Continental Congress, | (1774)a meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to respond to the closing of Boston Harbor,increased taxes,and abuses of authority by the British government;delegates petitioned King George III,listeing the freedoms they believed colonists will enjoy |
| Patriots, | American colonists who foughr for independence from Great Britain during the Revolutionary War |
| minutemen, | American colonial militia members ready to fight at a minute's notice |
| Redcoats, | British soldiers who fought against the colonists in the American Revolution;so calle because of their bright red uniforms |
| Second Continental Congress, | (1775)a meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to react to fighting at Lexington and Concord |
| Continental Army, | the army created by the Second Continental Congress in 1775 to defend the American colonies from Britain |
| George Washington, | One of his accomplishments was to keep peace with Britain and France.As president,he lived in New York and Philadelphia,the nation's first two capitals |
| Battle of Bunker Hill, | (1775)a Revolutionary War batltle in Boston that demonstreted that the colonists could fight well against the British army |
| Common Sense, | (1776)a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that criticized monarchies and convinced many American colonists of the need to break away from Britain |
| Thomas Paine, | The author,argued that citizens,not kings and queens should make laws,At a time when monarchs ruled much of the world,this was a bold idea. |
| Declaration of Independence, | (1776)the document written to declare the colonies free from British rule |
| Thomas Jefferson, | the document's main author,argued that all people possesss unalienably rights,including the rights of "life,liberty,and the pursuit of happiness" |
| Loyalists, | colonists who sided with Britain in the American Revolution |
| mercenaries, | hired foreign soldiers |
| Battle of Trenton, | (1776)a Revolutionary War battle in New Jersey in which Patriot forces captured more than 900 hessian troops |
| Battle of Saratoga, | (1777)a Revolutionare War battle in New York that resulted in a major defeat of British troops;marj\ked the Patriot's greatest victory up to that point in the war |
| Marquis de Lafayette, | bought his own ship and arrive in America in 1777.He brought with him a group of well-trained soldiers and volunteered to serve in the Continental Army himself without pay |
| Baron Frederich von Steuben, | In 1777 an experienced military officer from Prussia,led with combination of respect and fear.He started training the American troops focussin on basic military drills.He turned the Continental Army into a finely fighting force |
| Bernardo de Galvez, | 1779 Spanish Louisiana became a key allied to the Patrio's gatheres a small army os Spanish soldieres,French American,Colonists,and Native Americans |
| John Paul Jones' | the Patriot's owed much of their success on the seas to this naval hero |
| George Rogers Clark, | Volunteered to lead the western campaing.Had been a surveyor along the Ohio and Kentucky rivers. |
| Francis Marion, | He organized Marion's Brigade,a group of guerrilla soldiers used surprise attacks to disrupt British communication and supply lines |
| Comte de Rochambeau, | led the French-American force on a swift march to Virginia to cut off the other scape routes |
| Battle of Yorktown, | the last major battle of the Revolutionary War;site of British general Charles Cornwallis's to the Patriot's in Virginia |
| Treaty of Paris of 1783, | a peace agreement that offiacially ended the Revolutionary War and established British recogmitions of the independence of the United States |
