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Ch.#7
Ch.7 BN
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| George Washington | commander of the continental army |
| mercenary | a professional soldier hired to fight for a foreign country |
| strategy | an overall plan of action |
| rendezvous | a meeting |
| Battles of Saratoga | a series of battles between the British soldiers and the Continental Army |
| ally | country that helps another |
| Marquis de Lafayette | 19 year old nobleman who volunteered to fight in washington's army |
| bayonet | Long steel knife attached to the ends of guns |
| desert | to run away from the military |
| privateer | privately owned ship used to attack an enemy |
| James Forten | 14 year old son of a free african man who's ship was captured by britain and they offered for a free ride to england but he refused |
| John Paul Jones | won against the most famous sea battle, serapis |
| Lord Cornwallis | leader of a british army in south carolina |
| guerillas | Hit-and-run tactic |
| pacifist | a person morally opposed to war |
| Battle of Yorktown | the last major battle of the revolutionary war which the British surrendered |
| Treaty of Paris of 1783 | a treaty that ended the revolutionary war and made the US independent and set the boudaries of the new nation |
| republicanism | a belief that the government should be based off the consent of the people and excercise their power through voting |
| Elizabethh Freeman | sued for her freedom in massachusetts and won |
| Richard Allen | founder of the Free African Society |
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