| A | B |
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| Lexington | First battle in the American Revolution - "The Shot Heard Round the World" |
| American Crisis | Soldiers had low morale, deserting the army, very few supplies |
| Thomas Paine | "The American Crisis" pamphlet encouraged soldiers to enlist and continue to fight |
| Trenton | Hessians were defeated, surprise attack, Washington crossed the Delaware River |
| Saratoga | Turning point of the war; American victory, foreign aid helps Americans, the French joined the fight |
| Valley Forge | Freezing cold winter in Pennsylvania, soldiers suffered from frostbite, hunger and illness |
| Yorktown | Last battle of the war, General Cornwallis surrenders to General George Washington |
| Treaty of Paris, 1783 | Ended the Revolutionary War, American gained land up to the Mississippi River, doubled the size of the country |
| Francis Marion | Swamp Fox, used guerrilla warfare in the South |
| John Paul Jones | Used bold and daring attacks at sea against Britain |
| George Rogers Clark | Stopped the British in the West with his strategies |
| George Washington | Leader of the Continental Army |
| Second Continental Congress | Served as temporary government of the United States |
| Marquis de Lafayette (France), Baron Von Steuben (Germany) and Thaddeus Kosciusko (Poland) | Foreign generals who helped train the Continental army |
