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Unit 3 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Lexingtion and Concord | The first shots of the American Revolution were fired at these two battles outside of Boston in April 1775 |
| Lexington and Concord | Called the SHot Heard Round The World |
| Bunker Hill | this was a British Victory but the Americans inflicted heavy casualties on the, boosted their confidence and made them belive they could win |
| Decleration of Independence | document written by Tohmas Jefferson; passed by Continental Congress in July 1776 |
| Decleration Of Independence | offically declared that the United States was a seperate country fom Great Britian; Listed complaints or grievances or complaints against King George III; exlained reasons why America should declare its independence |
| Trenton and Princeton | battels in which George Washington outwitted the British aermy and won victories that boasted Americans morale to keep fighting |
| Saratoga | battle that was the turning point of the war; fought in upstate New York in 1777 |
| Valley forge | camp outside of Philiadelphia where the Continental Army suffered through winter but were trained and became a more porfessinoal army |
| KIng's Mountain | battle fought on the Southeren frontier by the overmountain men against Loyalist, American victory and turned the tide of the war in the south |
| Guerilla warfare | type of warfare the Continental Army used on the British army in the south, destroyed supply lines and burned bridges insted of facing them in battle |
| Yorktown | Last battle of the American Revolution in Oct 1781, lace where the French navy trapped General Charles Cornwallis on a peninsula and laid sige to british Army |
| Loyalists | also caled Tories, these were Americans that sided with Great Britian during the American Revolution |
| Treaty of Paris 1783 | agreement that ended the American Revolution. US recived its Independence and got all the land to the Mississippi River |
| George Washington | commander of the Continental Army |
| Charles Cornwallis | British general that surrendered to Washington and the French at Yorktown |
| Tohmas Jeffreson | member of 2nd continental congress that wrot the Decleration of INdependence |
| Tohmas Paine | Scottish immigrant that wrote common sense and the crisis |
| Benedict Arnold | hero of the battle of Saratoga but betrayed the USand joined the British |
| Francis Marion | also called the "Swamp Fox", he was an American that praticed guerilla warfare in SC |
| Baron von Stebuen | Purussian army officer that trained the Continental Army at Valley Forge |
| Marquis de LaFayette | French officer that was one of Washingtons advisors and generals |
| Baron von Steuben | Prussian army officer that trained the Continental Army at Valley Forge |
| Hessians | German mercenaries that fought for the British |
| Bunker Hill | The first major battle of the American Revolution; fought at Breed’s Hill outside of Boston; |
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