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ch 7 vocab!
Question | Answer |
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the general of the continentail army and a great american influence | george washington |
a professional soldier hired from another country | mercenary |
an over all plan of action | strategy |
a meeting | rendezvous |
the british surrender at saratoga this battle made france ally with america | battles of saratoga |
a country that agrees to help another country achieve a common goal | ally |
a 19 year old french noblemen who served in washintons army | marquis de lafayette |
a steel knife at the end of a gun | bayonet |
to leave military duty and never come back | desert |
a privatly owned ship that has permisstion to attack enemy merchant ships | privateer |
a famous privateer who not only helped with the revolution but with the fight against slavery | james forten |
the captian of the most famous sea battle of the revolution | john paul jones |
a british general | lord cornwallis |
small bands of fighters that weaken the enemy with hit and run attacks | guerrillas |
people opposed to war | pacifist |
the final battle of the revolutionary war | battle of yorktown |
the treaty that ended the revolutionary war | treaty of paris 1783 |
the idea that the people rule and not a king | republicanism |
sued for her freedom and won the case | elizabeth freeman |
started the free african society | richard allen |