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- Valley Forge
- where the Americans spent a harsh winter
- recruit
- enlist
- blockade
- cut off an area by means of warships to stop supplies ro people from coming in or going
- Hessians
- hired German soldiers who fought w/ Britain
- George Rogers Clark
- a lieutenant colonel in the Virginia militia
- Paul Revere and William Dawes
- allerted colonists that "the british are coming"
- mercenaries
- hired soldiers
- Henry Hamilton
- a British commander who commanded Detroit
- Olive Branch Petition
- assured the king of the colonists desire for peace and asked the king to protect the colonists' rights, which parliament seemed determined to destroy (King refused it)
- Treaty of Paris
- a treaty that ended the war
- guerrilla warfare
- a technique of fighting used by the Americans
- Friedrich Von Steuben
- a former army officer from Germany; also came to help Washington; helped train troops
- Nathan Hale
- an American spy who dressed up as a school teacher and then was caught and hanged his last words were "i only regret that i have but live to lose for my country"
- Joseph Brant
- a Mohawk Chief
- Battle of Long Island
- a huge defeat for the Continental Army
- delegates of Continental Congress
- John Adams, John Jay, Richard Henry Lee, Patrick Henry, and George Washington
- preamble
- introduction
- Gen. William Howe
- british commander
- petition
- formal request
- Declaration of Independence
- was signed on July 4, 1776. declared our independence against Britain
- Admiral Francois De Grasse
- a French Naval Officer
- John Paul Jones
- a daring American naval officer
- Yorktown
- the last battle of the Revolutionary war
- Concord
- where militia stored arms and ammunition
- Thomas Paine
- writer who wrote Commen Sense and The American Crisis
- General Horatio Gates
- a cowardly general
- ratified
- approved
- Trenton and Princeton
- when the Americans attacked the Hessians on Christmas night, and won
- Continental Congress
- an organization that governed the colonies. some declaratios-called for a repel of the 13 acts of Parliament -called for a boycott of allBritish goods and trade -endorse the Suffolk Resolve (major decision)
- Lemuel Hayes and Peter Salem
- African Americans who joined the patriots
- Benedict Arnold
- a American traitor
- Vincennes
- a British town that George Rogers Clark captured
- Nathanael Green
- replace Horatio Gates as commander of the Continental forces in the south
- patriots
- people who stayed loyal to America
- minutemen
- militia men that boasted they could fight ona minutes notice
- Green Mountain Boys
- a local milita group led by Ethan Allan
- Juan De Miralles
- a representative of Spain who helped Americans
- loyalists/tories
- people who stayed loyal to Britian throughout the war
- Margaret Corbin/ Molly Pitcher
- women who fought for womens rights in the war
- Bernardo De Galvez
- a Spanish governor who came over to help America and helped raise an army
- militias
- groups of untrained citizen soldiers
- deserted
- left without permission
- Battle of Bunker Hill
- British got control of hill, but many were injured. americans retreated because they ran out of ammunition. acctually took place on Breed's Hill
- ambush
- a suprise attack
- Continental Army
- America's official army
- Marquis De Lafayette
- a French nobleman who came to help Americans
- Francis Marion
- known as the Swamp Fox
- neutral
- taking neither sides in a conflict
- privateers
- privatly owned merchant ships