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Vocabulary 6.4
Declaring Independence
Term | Definition |
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Ethan Allen | leader of a Patriot group of fighters known as the Green Mountain Boys |
Second Continental Congress | America's government during the Revolutionary War |
Continental Army | America's Patriot army during the Revolutionary War |
Thomas Paine | political radical and the author of Common Sense |
Declaration of Independence | document that declared American independence from Britain |
Thomas Jefferson | delegate from Virginia who wrote the Declaration of Independence |
Siege | when enemy forces surround a town or city in order to force it to surrender |
artillery | cannon and large guns |