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American negotiator of Treaty of Paris and member of the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence

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John Adams

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American soldier who committed treason by agreeing to hand over a fort to the British

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Benedict Arnold

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British general who surrendered his army near Saratoga

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John Burgoyne

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British General who surrendered his army near Yorktown

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Charles Cornwallis

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British General whose army occupied Boston and attacked Concord

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Thomas Gage

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An early American success that supplied artillery for the forces around Boston

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Fort Ticonderoga

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Virginian patriot whose speeches supported the war

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Patrick Henry

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British General who took New York and Philadelphia but missed his main objective

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William Howe

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Primary author of the Declaration of Independence

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Thomas Jefferson

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Englishman who wrote common sense to arouse support for independence

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Thomas Paine

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A costly victory outside of Boston

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Bunker hill

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Commander of the green mountain boys who captured fort Ticonderoga

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Ethan Allen

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Commander in chief of the continental army

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George Washington

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A successful winter raid that lifted the morale of the young continental army

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Trenton

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An unsuccessful attempt to stop the British from taking Philadelphia

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Battle of brandywine

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American ordnance chief who surprised the British by transporting heavy artillery to Boston

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Henry Knox

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Overrated American commander who won at Saratoga but lost at Camden

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Horatio Gates

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The capture of a British army which encouraged France to join the war

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Saratoga campaign

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The continental army’s winter headquarters during the dark winter of 1777-78

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Valley forge

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A draw that proved the new professionalism of the continental army

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Battle of Monmouth

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American leader who was vital in winning the battles of Saratoga and cowpens

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Daniel Morgan

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German drill master for the continental army

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Baron Von Steuben

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American leader in the northwest who captured Vincennes

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George Roger Clark

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Patriot guerrilla called the “Swamp Fox”

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Francis Marion

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Resourceful American commander in the south known as the “Fighting Quaker” who kept the pressure on the British

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Nathaniel Greene

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French aristocrat who helped to corner the British at Yorktown

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Marquis de Lafayette

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Action taken by patriots in 1773, when British ships refused to take their tea back to England

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Boston tea party

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Treaty that brought the war for independence to an end

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Treaty of Paris

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Act that made Roman Catholicism the official religion of Quebec

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Quebec act

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Colonial militiamen ready to fight in a moment’s notice

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Minutemen

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A series of acts such as closing the port of Boston designed to punish and subjugate the troublesome colony

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Coercive acts

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Document stating that the colonist must be autonomous/self-governing in nearly every aspect and have the right to raise militias to defend themselves

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Declaration of American rights

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Another term for loyalists who were pro-British colonist

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Tories

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Alerted colonies of British threats to liberty to other areas of the colony

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Committee of correspondence

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Act that granted east India trading company a monopoly on the shipment and sale of English tea in America

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Tea act of 1773

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A large group of Scot-Irish living in the back country of south central Harrisburg

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Paxton boys

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Made a famous ride through the countryside of Massachusetts to alert of the impending British attack

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Paul revere

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A group of rebels who opposed British rule and held rallies to protest the stamp act

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Sons of Liberty

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Fifty delegates gathered and adopted a formal statement of protest; they asserted the right of the colonies to self-govern

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First continental congress

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German mercenaries

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Hessians

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Pamphlet that advocated independence from Britain

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Common Sense

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Minor victory for the American troops but good moral booster for them

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Princeton

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Professional full-time soldiers who made the military their careers

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Regulars

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Violent group of protestors against Britain who dominated the North Carolina back country

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Regulators

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Pro-British colonists

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Loyalists

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Document pledging loyalty to the king and requested his intervention in curbing Parliament’s abusive exercise of power

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Olive branch petition

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Battle on a rolling meadows in which the British suffered 930 casualties and the American suffered only 70

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Battle of cowpens

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Little crossroads in North Carolina

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Guilford courthouse

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Cornwallis and his forces and Greene and his forced strived to reach to Dan River and cut off the other from their supply basses

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Race of the Dan

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Battle in which major Patrick Ferguson and 80% of his force were destroyed

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Battle of Kings mountain

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The scene of British “humiliating defeat”

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Yorktown

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Delegates gathered in Philadelphia to assemble the mantle of governance and appointed George Washington commander and chief of the continental army

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Second continental congress

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Series of acts intended to punish the colonist and force them into submission, also known as the coercive acts

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Intolerable acts

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“Citizen soldiers”

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Militia

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Local citizens boarded a British ship removed its crew and burned the ship

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Gaspee incident

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Trading post that fell on the wabash River in what is now Indiana

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Vincennes

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Area where Gates and Cornwallis stumbled upon each other in South Carolina

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Camden

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Colonists loyal to America

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Patriots

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The capture of an important American city by the British following the Savannah

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Siege of Charlestown

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Document listing the grievances that Americans had against the king ad stated universal principles that would shape the character and direction of the emerging nation

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Declaration of Independence

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After being defeated on land and sea, the British troops lay down their arms and surrendered

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Surrender at Yorktown

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