Chapter 4 Section 2, 3, 4 vocabulary

Question 1

Mercenaries

Answer 1

Foreign soldiers who fought not out of loyalty, but for pay

Question 2

Battle of Trenton

Answer 2

An important Patriot victory

Question 3

Battle of Saratoga

Answer 3

The battle in New York was the turning point of the Revolutionary war

Question 4

Common Sense

Answer 4

A 47 page pamphlet that was distributed in Philadelphia in January 1776

Question 5

Thomas Paine

Answer 5

The author of Common Sense. He argued that citizens, not kings and queens, should make laws.

Question 6

Declaration of Independence

Answer 6

Formally announced the colonies’ break from Great Britain.

Question 7

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 7

The main author of the Declaration of Independence. Argued that all people possess rights.

Question 8

Loyalists

Answer 8

Colonists who chose tho side with the British.

Question 9

Marquis de Lafayette

Answer 9

Served in the Continental Army without pay, spoke little English, became a skillful commander and soon major general.

Question 10

Baron Friedrich Von Steuben

Answer 10

Experienced military officer from Prussia.

Question 11

Bernardo de Gálvez

Answer 11

The governor of Spanish Louisiana, became a key ally to the Patriots.

Question 12

John Paul Jones

Answer 12

Captured the British warship Serapis

Question 13

George Rogers Clark

Answer 13

Volunteered to lead the western campaign, he knew the lands of the Midwest well

Question 14

Francis Marion

Answer 14

He organized Marion’s Brigade, a group of guerrilla soldiers.

Question 15

Comte de Rochambeau

Answer 15

French soldier who commanded the French troops in the American Revolutionary War.

Question 16

Battle of Yorktown

Answer 16

It was the last major battle of the American Revolution.

Question 17

Treaty of Paris of 1783

Answer 17

Great Britain recognized the independence of the United States.

Question 18

Saratoga

Answer 18

Battle there marked the climax of the Revolutionary War