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ch 7 vocab ss
Question | Answer |
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commander of the Continental Army | George Washington |
professional soldier hired to fight for a foreign country | mercenary |
an overall plan of action | strategy |
meeting | rendezvous |
a series of conflicts between British soldiers and the Continental Army in 1777 that proved to be a turning point in the Revolutionary War | Battles of Saratoga |
a country that agrees to help another country achieve common goal | ally |
a 19 year old French nobleman who volunteered to serve in Washington's army | Marquis de Lafayette |
long steel knives attached to the ends of guns | bayonet |
leave military duty without intending to return | desert |
a privately owned ship that a wartime government gives permission to attack an enemy's merchant ships | privateer |
son of a free african-american sail maker who signed up to sail on the royal louis to earn money for his family after his father died | James Forten |
an officer who won the most famous sea battle | John Paul Jones |
a british general | Lord Cornwallis |
small band of fighter who weaken the enemy with surprish raids and hit and run attacks | guerrillas |
opposed to war | pacifist |
american and french troops bombarded Yorktown with cannon fire, turning its buildings to rubble | Battle of Yorktown |
a treaty that ended the revolutionary war | Treaty of Paris of 1783 |
idea that stated that instead of a king, the people would rule | republicanism |
she sued for ger freedon in a Massachusetts court and won | Elizabeth Freeman |
a preacher that helped start the Free African Society | Richard Allen |