| A | B |
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| Loyalist | colonist who was still loyal to the King |
| neutral | not taking sides on an issue or during a disagreement |
| Joseph Brant | Mohawk leader who urged his people to side with the British during the Revolutionary War |
| Haym Salomon | a Jewish banker from Philadelphia who helped the United States get loans and lent his own money to support the cause of independence |
| Peter Salem | an enslaved African American who earned his freedom by fighting for the Patriots; became a hero of the Battle of Bunker Hill |
| Deborah Sampson | dressed in men's clothes and joined the Continental Army |
| Phillis Wheatley | African American female poet who wrote a poem praising George Washington as well as praising the cause of freedom |
| Martha Washington | wife of George Washington who helped collect supplies for the army and often stayed at the general's camp and helped the soldiers however she could |
| "Molly Pitcher" | nickname given to those women who carried pitchers of water to the soldiers on the battlefield |
| Mary Ludwig Hays | a "Molly Pitcher" who was honored by General Washington for taking her husband's place after he was wounded |
| inflation | a rise in the prices of goods |
| War for Independence | another name for the Revolutionary War |
