| A | B |
|---|
| revolution | a drastic change |
| representation | having a voice in your future |
| natural rights | freedoms given to all humans |
| independence | separating from the mother country |
| equality | everyone is treated the same way |
| democracy | citizens vote to make decisions |
| Continental Congress | attended by delegates from most colonies |
| Marquis de Lafayette | French friend of George Washington |
| Baron von Steuben | Prussian officer who trained troops |
| Bernardo de Galvez | Spanish governor who sent cattle |
| Francis Swamp Fox Marion | american who used guerilla warfare |
| Lord Dunmores Proclamation | attempt to recruit African Americans |
| Minutemen | farmers willing to fight on short notice |
| Hessians | British mercenaries from germany |
| Olive Branch | petition for last chance peace effort |
| first gunfire at Lexington | shot heard round the world |
| seige | surrounding the enemy to defeat them |
| song played at Yorktown | world turned upside down |
| loyalists | colonists who obeyed the king |
| patriots | colonists who fought the king |
| John Hancock | rich businessman from massachusetts |
| Abigail Adams | wife of a massachusetts lawyer |
| Ben Franklin | diplomat from Pennsylvania |
| Patrick Henry | give me liberty or give me death |
| Thomas Paine | English author of common sense |
| Thomas Jefferson | wrote the Declaration of Independence |
| Declaration of Independence | document to separate from the king |
| Benedict Arnold | American whose name means traitor |
| John Paul Jones | brave Scottish-American sailor |
| George Washington | Continental army commander |
| Nathan Hale | I only regret that I have but one life |
| Ethan Allen | come out you old rat |
| Colonel William prescott | dont fire until you see .... eyes |
| Henry Knox | American who gave Boston cannons |
| George Rogers Clark | American officer who fought in indiana |
| Charles Cornwallis | British general at Yorktown |
| William Howe | British general in Philadelphia |
| Nathanael Greene | American general with Quaker roots |
| Treaty of Paris | document that ended the war |
| Valley Forge | American camp in Pennsylvania |
