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Chapter7 Vocab.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| commander of the Continental Army. | George Washington |
| a professional soldier hired to fight for a foreign country. | mercenary |
| an overall plan of action. | strategy |
| a meeting. | rendezvous |
| a series of conflicts between British soldiers and the Continental Army in 1777 that proved to be a turning point in the Revolutionary War. | Battles of Saratoga |
| a country that agrees to help another country achieve a common goal. | ally |
| French nobleman who volunteered to serve in Washington's army and was a commander of an army divison. He fought for the U.S and France. | Marquis de Lafayette |
| a long steel knife attached to the end of a gun. | bayonet |
| to leave military duty without intending to return. | desert |
| a privately owned ship that has government permission during wartime to attack an enemie's merchant ships. | privateer |
| was a volunteer for privateers, helped end slavery, and was the son of a free African-American sail maker. | James Forten |
| won the most famous sea battle. | John Paul Jones |
| a British general that led the army to South Carolina to challenge the army. | Lord Cornwallis |
| a soldier who weakens the enemy with surprise raids and hit-and-run attacks. | guerrillas |
| a person morally opposed to war. | pacifist |
| the last major battle of the Revolutionary War, which resulted in the surrender of the British forces in 1781. | Battle of Yorktown |
| the treaty that ended the Revolutionary War, confirming the independence of the United States and setting the boundries of the new nation. | Treaty of Paris of 1783 |
| the belief that government should be based on the consent of the people; people exercise their power by voting for political representatives. | republicanism |
| sued for her freedom in Massachusetts court and won, helped with ending slavery. | Elizabeth Freeman |
| preacher that helped start the Free African Society in with African Americans helped one another and founded the first African-American church in the U.S. | Richard Allen |