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Ch 4 vocab
Revolutionary War - grade 7
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| First Continental Congress | Delegates from all of the colonies except Georgia met in Philadelphia to decide how to respond to Great Britain's Intolerable Acts. |
| Patriots | Colonists that wanted to break from from English rule |
| Loyalists | Colonists that sided with Great Britain during the Revolutionary War. |
| Redcoats | A nickname for British Soldiers |
| Minutemen | American colonial militia members that were ready to fight at a moment's notice |
| Second Continental Congress | A second group of delegates who met in Philadelphia to discuss how to deal with the King of England. They created the Olive Branch Petition and started the Continental Army |
| Continental Army | Army created by the Second Continental Congress in 1775 to defend the American Colonies against Britain |
| Thomas Paine | This man wrote Common Sense, an influential pamphlet in which he argued that citizens, not kings and queens, should make the laws. |
| George Washington | This Virginian commanded the Continental Army. He later became the first president of the United States. |
| Thomas Jefferson | This founding father was the main author of the Declaration of Independence. He later became the 3rd president of the United States. |
| John Adams | One of the founding fathers of the US. His wife encouraged him to "remember the ladies". |
| Declaration of Independence | This document declared the colonies free from British rule and listed the colonists' grievances against Britain. |
| Mercenaries | These are hired foreign soldiers |
| Treaty of Paris | The peace agreement that ended the Revolutionary War. |
| Strategy | This is a plan of action for fighting a battle or war. |
| Treason | This is a crime for betraying your own government. |
| Natural Rights | These are the rights that every person is born with including life, liberty and property. |
| Guerilla Warfare | This is a form of irregular warfare that uses ambushes |
| Tyranny | This is a cruel and oppressive form of government rule |
| John Locke | This is the English philosopher and enlightenment thinker who came up with the idea of natural rights. |
| Revolutionary War | The war of independence waged by the American colonies against Great Britain |
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