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Unit 6
Unit 6 - Rev_War
Term | Definition |
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First Continental Congress | meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to respond to the closing of Boston Harbor, increased taxes, and abuses of authority by the British government; |
Minutemen | members of the civilian volunteer militia. Ready to fight at a minute's notice |
Second Continental Congress | meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to react to fighting at Lexington and Concord |
George Washington | Commander in chief of the Continental Army |
Battle of Bunker Hill | a Revolutionary War battle in Boston that demonstrated that the colonists could fight well against the British army |
Common Sense | pamphlet published in January 1776 that urged separation from Great Britain. Common Sense was published anonymously-that is, without the author's name. The author, Thomas Paine, |
Thomas Jefferson | Thomas Jefferson, was the document's main author. |
Declaration of Independence | formally announced the colonies' break from Great Britain. |
Patriots | chose to fight for independence |
Loyalists | sometimes called Tories-were those who remained loyal to Great Britain |
Battle of Saratoga | a Revolutionary War battle in New York that resulted in a major defeat of British troops; marked the Patriots' greatest victory up to that point in the war |
mercenaries | foreign soldiers who fight not out of loyalty, but for pay |
Valley Forge | In December 1777, Washington settled his 12,000 men at Valley Forge, about 20 miles north of Philadelphia. There they suffered shortages of food and clothing. |
Battle of Yorktown | the last major battle of the Revolutionary War; site of British general Charles Cornwallis's surrender to the Patriots in Virginia |
Treaty of Paris | a peace agreement that officially ended the Revolutionary War and established British recognition of the independence of the United States |