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Chapter 7 Vocab Link
Chapter 7 Vocabulary for Ms Link's class
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| First commander of the Continental Army | George Washington |
| Professional Soldier hired to fight for a foreign country | Mercenary |
| An overall plan for action | Strategy |
| Meeting | Rendezvous |
| The conflict that led to the surrender of Burgoyne | Battles of Sara Toga |
| A country that agrees to help another country achieve a common goal | Ally |
| French nobleman who volunteered to serve in Washington's army | Marquis de Lafayette |
| Long steel knives attached to the end of guns | bayonet |
| Leave military duty without intending to return | desert |
| privately owned ship that a wartime government gives permission to attack an enemy | privateer |
| Son of a free African American sail maker | James Forten |
| won the most famous sea battle | John Paul Jones |
| led British army during the Revolutionary war | Lord Cornwallis |
| small bands of fighters who weaken the enemy with surprise raids and hit and run attacks | guerrillas |
| opposed to war | pacifist |
| when American troops bombarded Yorktown with cannon fire | Battle of Yorktown |
| ended the Revolutionary War | Treaty of Paris 1783 |
| state that instead of a king, people would rule | Republicanism |
| sued for freedom in a Massachusetts court and won | Elizabeth Freeman |
| help start the Free African Society | Richard Allen |