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- Lemuel Haynes
- An African-American minutemen; interruptedhis studies for the ministry to join the militia
- Benjamin Banneker
- One of the men who helped to plan Washington D.C.; Was also the first black American to write a scientific book
- James Armistead
- An African-American slave; Serveed the colonial amy as a spy
- First Amendment
- Es especially important because it gives us freedom of religion, speech, press, and assembly
- Valley forge
- Where Washington's army went when they failed to drive the British out of Philadelphia; Where Washington's army spent a dreadful winter
- George Rogers Clark
- He led a froup of men from Virginia down to the Ohio River, through swamps and forests, to help the colonists
- patriot
- Those who wanted America to be free from Breitian's heavy control
- bonhamme richard
- John Paul Jones's most famous of his sea battle; Named after Benjamin Franklin's "Poor Richard's Almanack"
- James Madison
- The man who did the most important work at the Constirtutional Convention
- Inauguration Day
- When Washington took the oath of the office
- General Lord Cornwallis
- Under him, the British captured Georgia and then almost all of South Carolina
- shot heard around the world
- The gunshot which nobody knows who shot; The first shot of the American War of Independence
- civil government
- A body or organisation set up to rule the people of a certain area
- John Hancock
- The President of the Congress; Signed the Declaration of Independence first
- minutemen
- The peopole that said they could be ready to fight at a minute's notice
- stamp act
- One of the laws passed in 1765 to control the colonies and pay for war expenses
- Farewell Address
- Where Washington thanked the people of America for allowing him to serve his country as President for eight years
- 3 branches of government
- Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
- Fort le Boeuf
- Where Covernnor Dinwiddie of Virginia decided to send a messenger to the French officer
- John Paul Jones
- He was One of the first officers of our navy
- Bill of Rights
- A list of the rights or freedoms that the Constitution gives to Americans
- Washington, D.C.
- Stands for our first President and District of Columbia
- Boston Massacre
- The skirmish between a group of Bostonians and some British soldiers which resulted in the deaths of five of the colonists
- Boston Tea Party
- When about 50 colonists dressed like Mohawk Indians boarded the ships, smashed open over 300 chests of tea with their tomahawks and dumped the tea into the water
- Paul Revere
- A well-known Boston patriot;Saw the flashing lights and jumped on his horse screaming "The British are coming, the British are coming!"
- Nathan Hale
- A young schoolteacher from Conneticut; Volunteered to sneack behind enemy lines to find out what the British was planning
- seripas
- A better equipped vessel in a fight off the coast of Scotland
- New York City
- Our nation's first capital
- George Washington
- Our first president (1732-1799)
- General Edward Braddock
- The commander of all British forces in the North American colonies
- Yorktown
- Where English Generel Cornwallis moved into
- John Adams
- He was our first Vice President (1735-1826)
- Declaration of Independence
- The great document that gave us our freedom
- Fort Duquesne
- A French frontier stronghold
- constitutional republic
- A form of government in which people and their elected representatices are limited by a constitution
- Battle of Bunker Hill
- The war in which many people climbed onto their rooftops to watch; Twice the British tried to climb the hill, but the colonists beat them back
- first continental congress
- The meeting in which 50 men from Phillidelphiamet and put in a request that their rights as Englishmenbe respected
- French and Indian War
- The war in which the French and Indians allied themselves against the British
- Nathanael Greene
- General Washington sent him out to fight in the South
- second contenintal congress
- The second meeting in which many important decisions were made; America muse have an organized army and that George Washington would command the new army
- tax
- Money that people pay to their government for use in helping to run the government
- constitutional convention
- Held in Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence had been signed eleven years ago
- treaty of paris
- What England signed almost 2 years after 1783
- quebec act
- Another act of Parliament that horrified the colonists
- Thomas Jefferson
- He did the actual writing of the great document "The Declaration of Independence"
- hessians
- German Soldiers
- July 4, 1776
- The date when the Declaration of Independence was officially adopted by twelve of the thirteen colonies
- supreme court
- The highest court in the land
- Patrick Henry
- A young Virginian; gave a stirring speech to the House of Burgesses; famous quote "Give me liberty or give me death!"
- Betsy Ross
- She stitched together the first official American flag
- liberity bell
- The ringing of it called the people of the town together; On it is written Leviticus 25:10
- Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys
- Decided to attack and take Fort Ticonderoga from the British
- articules of the confedertion
- The first plan of government that the states agreed upon; This plan was adopted before American independence had been won.
- Battle of Saratoga
- The turning point of the American War for Independence
- Constitution of the United States
- The plan for that new government in which our country still follows today
- King George III
- Became king before the French and Indian War was over