Section 1-5
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| Minutemen | American colonial militia members who were supposed to be ready to fight at a minutes notice.
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| Siege | Military blockade of a city or fort.
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| First Continental Congress | Met in Philadelphia. had 56 colonial delegates.
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| Thomas Gage | decided to take away the minutemen's weapons and ammunation.
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| Redcoats | British soldiers, becuase of uniform.
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| Second Continental Congress | Had to decide how to react to the fighting.
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| Continental Army | To defend the colonies.
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| George Washington | Virginian to command army.
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| Olive Branch Petition | Peace request sent by the Second Continental Congress to Britains King George III, who rejected it.
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| Battle of Bunker Hill | Revolutionary War battle in Boston that demostrated that the colonists could fight well against the British army.
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| Unalienable Rights | Basic human rights such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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| Common Sense | Panphlet written by Thomas Paine
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| Thomas Paine | argued for breaking away from Great Britain.
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| Thomas Jefferson | Main of author of Decleration of Independence.
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| Decleration of Independence | Statement of the Second Continental Congress that defined the colonists rights, outlined their complaints about Great Britain, and declared the colonies independence.
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| Patriots | American colonists who fought for independence from Great Britain during the Revolutionary War.
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| Loyalissts | Colonists who sided with Britain in the American Revolution.
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| Abigail Adams | The wife of John Adams.
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| Mercenaries | Hired foreign soldiers.
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| Lord's Dunmore's Proclamation | Statement issued by by Virginia's royal governorpromosing freedom to any slave who fought for the british in the American Revolution.
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| Thayendanega | Persuaded many of the Iroquois to support the British.
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| Molly Pitcher | Brought water to thirsty Patriot troops.
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| William Howe | Led the British to drive the the continental armyoff of Long Island.
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| Battle of Trenton | Revolutionary War battle in New Jersey in which Patriot forces captured more than 900 Hessain troops.
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| Battle of Princeton | Revolutionary War battle in which the the Patriots drove back British forces in New Jersey.
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| John Burgoyne | surrendered army to american patriot general Haatio's Gates at Saratoga, New York, on october 17, 1777.
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| Battle of Brandywine Creek | Revolutionary War battle in which British forces overwhelmed th e Patriots in Pennsylvania.
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| Battle of Saratoga | Revolutionary war battle in New York that resulted in a major defeat of British troops; marked the Patriot's greatest victory up to that point in the war.
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| Bernado de Galvez | the governor of Spanish Louisiana, was a key ally to the Patriots.
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| Marquis de Lafayette | individual foreigner who aso fought for the patriots.
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| Friedrich von Steuben | sspoke no english
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| John Paul Jones | one of the most successful American captains.
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| Guerilla Warfare | Type of fighting in which soldiers use swift hit-and-run attacks against the enemy, usually behind the battle lines.
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| George Rogers Clark | Was a key American leader in the west.
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| Battle of Vincennes | Revolutionary War battle in the west in which Patriots retook Vincennes, a mostly French town along the Wabash River, from the British.
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| Horatio Gates | led patriot forces who tried to drive out the British
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| Francis Marion | great at Guerrilla Warfare.
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| Comte de Rochambeau | french general
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| Battle of Yorktown | Last major battle of the Revolutionary War; site of British general Charles Conwallis's surrender to the Patriots in Virginia.
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| Treaty of Paris 1783 | Peace agreement that officially ended the Revoluionary War and estblished British reconition of the United States.
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