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- Battle of Fort Ticonderoga
- Eathan Allen and Benedict Arnold took a large amount of the Brits weapons, Ethan Allen lead the Green Mountain Boys here and the British commander surrendered Ticonderoga., Ethan Allen lead the Green Mountain Boys here and the British commander surrendered Ticonderoga.
- First Continental Congress
- Delagates from all colonies except georgia met to discuss problems with britain and to promote independence
- Serapis
- The ship that George Rodgers Clark Captured
- Boston Tea Party
- Colonists hurled a cargo of British tea into the harbor to protest a tax on tea
- Minutemen
- Civilian soldiers
- Saratoga
- John Bergoyne surrendered to General Gates in north New York
- as for me give me liberty of give me death
- Patrick Henery
- siege
- the surrounding of a place by an army in order to capture it.
- mercenaries
- a person hired to fight for another country than their own
- Continental Army
- the American army during the American Revolution
- Redcoats
- british soldiers during the american revolution
- Dorchester Heights
- where the british retreated after seeing all the Americans up on the hills with cannons
- Olive Branch Petition
- An offer of peace sent by the Second Continental Congress to King George lll
- Trenton
- Crossing of the Delawere
- Long rifel
- continental army weapon
- guerrilla warfare
- hit-and-run raids that distracted the French in Spain
- Lord Dummores Proclamation
- The British told all the slaves that if they fought with the British they would be set free
- Vincennes
- a British town that George Rogers Clark captured
- Declaration of Independence
- This document was adopted byt the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. It established the 13 colonies as independent states, free from rule by Great Britain. Thomas Jefferson wrote the majority of this document.
- Treaty of Paris
- Treaty that officially ended the war
- Patriots
- American Soldiers
- Common Sense
- Thomas Paine
- Battle at New York
- Continental Army retreated to Manhattan Island from Long Island. Patriots suffered 1,000 casualties. British lost less than 400. British drove Patriots from Manhattan Island
- Battle of Brandywine Creek
- September 11, 1777; Howe vs. Washington; Patriots lost because of miscommunication; Howe allowed colonists to retreat
- Second Continental Congress
- The meeting of colonial delegates that approved the Declaration of Independence
- Valley Forge
- General Von Steuben trained all of Washingtons Troops
- I have not yot begun to fight
- John Paul Jones
- The Swamp Fox
- Merrion was so good at guerilla warfare so the called him "The Swamp Fox"
- Britian
- The americans were fighting them
- France
- American Allies
- Battle at Montreal
- September 1775; Richard Montgomery won this battle against British in Canada
- Bunker Hill
- British won but lost twice as many men
- Yankey Doodle
- song that colonists sang to mock the Brits
- Lexington
- the first battle of the American Revolution (April 19, 1775)
- Loyalists
- loyal to the king of England