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Ch.7 Vocab
Social Study
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Commander of theHe was a 19- Continental Army. | George Washington |
| A professinal soldier hired to fight for a foreign Country. | Mercenary |
| An overall plan of action. | Strategy |
| Meeting | Rendezvous |
| The turning point of the Revolutionary War. | Battles of Saratoga |
| A country that agrees to help another country achieve a common goal. | Ally |
| He was a 19-year-old French nobleman who voluteered to serve in Washington's Army. | Marquis de Lafayette |
| Long steel knives attached to the ends of guns. | Bayonets |
| Leave military duty without intending to return. | Desert |
| A privately owned ship that a wartime government gives permission to attack an enemy's merchant ship. | Privateer |
| Who was the son of a free African-American sail maker. | James Forten |
| He won the most famous sea battle. | John Paul Jones |
| General Horation Gates challnge the army led by the Britis General (blank). | Lord Cornwallis |
| Small bands of fighters who weaken the enemy with suprise raids and hit-and-run attacks. | Guerillas |
| Opposed to war. | Pacifist |
| The last major battle of the war. | Battle of Yorktown |
| Which ended the Revolutionary War. | Treaty of Paris of 1738 |
| Which idea that stated that instead of a king, the people would rule. | Republicanism |
| She sued for her freeedom in a Massachusetts court and won. | Elizabeth Freeman |
| He start the Free Afrian Society. | Richard Allen |