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History
Revolutionary
Term | Definition |
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Smuggler and fancy signer of declaration | John Handcock |
Writer of common sense and crisis | Thomas Paine |
Founder of the sons of liberty | Samuel Adams |
General who brought cannons from Ticonderoga | Henry Knox |
Commander of the continental army | George Washington |
American ship captain who wouldn't give up his ship | Paul Johns |
American Swamp Fox guerrilla leader | Marion Francis |
Talented American general who turned | Benidic Arnold |
British general who lost the war | Cornwallis |
the writer declaration of independence | Thomas Jefferson |
Prussian officer who trained the Americans at valley forge | Fredrick Von Stuben |
Polish allies of America who helped build defenses | Tadeusz |
Spaniard who pursued other countries to send money to the Americans | Juan De Miralles |
Marquis from France who joined the Americans earl y in battle | Layafyette |
Battle that ended the American Revolution | Yorktown |
Spaniard who helped colonial SW Americans | Benardo de galvez |
French Genaral who came up with the Yorktown plan to win the war | Ruchambeau |
Men from local communities who volunteered to fight | Militia Men |
Men who were ready to fight in a moments notice | minuite me |
The groups who took over fort Ticonderoga | the green mt boys |
cololinists who suported independence | patriots |
colinists who wanted to remain british | loyalists |
coloinits who refused to take sides | neutrals |
hired soldiers | mercenaries |
Semi secret who sed violence to rebel aginst the british actions | sons of liberty |
group who boycotted british goods and drank hernal tea and coffee | daughters of liberty |
group of colonists who shared with the colonies what the British were up to | comites of corispondens |