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Chapter 7 Vocab-S.S.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| George Washington | Commander of the Continental Army. |
| Mercenary | A professional soldier hired to fight for a foreign country. |
| Strategy | An overall plan of action. |
| Rendezvous | A meeting. |
| Battles of Saratoga | A series of conflicts between British soldiers and the Continental Army in 1777 that proved to be a turning point in the Revolutionary War. |
| Ally | A country that agrees to help another country achieve a common goal. |
| Marquis de Lafayette | A 19-year-old French nobleman who volunteered to serve in Washington's army. |
| Bayonets | A long steel knife attached to the end of a gun. |
| Desert | To leave military duty without intending to return. |
| Privateer | A privately owned ship that has government permission during wartime to attack an enemy's merchant ships. |
| James Forten | A 14-year-old son of a free African-American sail maker, and who volunteered for the privateers. |
| John Paul Jones | An American officer who won the most famous sea battle against the British. |
| Lord Cornwallis | British general who was challenged by general Gates. |
| Guerrillas | Soldiers who weaken the enemy with surprise raids and hit-and-run attacks. |
| Pacifist | A person morally opposed to war. |
| Battles of Yorktown | The last major battle of the Revolutionary War, which resulted in the surrender of British forces in 1781. |
| Treaty of Paris of 1783 | The treaty that ended the Revolutionary War, conforming the independence of the Unites States and settling the boundaries of the new nation. |
| Republicanism | The belief that government should be based on the consent of the people; people exercise their power by voting for political representatives. |
| Richard Allen | A preacher who helped start the Free African Society. |