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6 Cards in this Set
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Patriots |
Colonists who believed they should break away from England |
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Loyalists |
Colonists who supported England during the war |
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mercenaries Why did the British have to hire mercenaries? |
Hired soldiers from Germany because the generals had a hard time recruiting soldiers (because the war was unpopular and the soldiers had to serve for life)
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guerilla warfare |
new military tactics examples: hit and run attacks, sharpshooters, ambush attacks) |
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bayonet |
a long, steel knife attached to the end of a gun |
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"frontier" region |
the territory between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River |
