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Chapter 7 Vocab E.L.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 another country achieve a common goal | ally |
| 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 had government permission during wartime to attack an enemy's merchant ships | privateer |
| James Forten | |
| John Paul Jones | |
| Lord Cornwallis | |
| soldiers who weaken 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 British forces in 1781 | Battle of Yorktown |
| the treaty that ended the Revolutionary War, confirming the independence of the U.S. and setting the boundaries 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 |
| Elizabth Freeman | |
| Richard Allen |