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Delegates declared loyalty to the king and asked him to repeal the Intolerable Acts

Olive Branch Petition

Allen lead a band of Vermonters to attack Fort Ticonderoga, they were called _____________

Green Mountain Boys

Army led by George Washington

Continental Army

Colonists who favored war against Britain

Patriots

American colonists who remained loyal to Britain were known as _________

Loyalists

The first major battle of the Revolution

Battle of Bunker Hill

Shutting of a port to keep people or supplies from moving in or out

Blockade

Troops for hire

Mercenaries

A pamphlet saying how colonists' believed that Parliament didn't have the right to make laws for the 13 clonies

Common Sense

Common Sense was written by ___________

Thomas Paine

A person who betrays his or her country

Traitor

__________ wrote the declaration of independence

Thomas Jefferson

Preamble

Introduction

First section of the Declaration of Independence

Natural rights

Second section of the Declaration of Independence

British wrongs

The last section of the Declaration of Independence

Independence

More than 1,400 Americans were killed, wounded, or captured

Battle of Long Isand

December 26 the Americans surprised the Hessian troops guarding Trenton and took most of them prisoner led by George Washington

Battle of Trenton

Major turning point in the war

Battle of Saratoga

________ work together to achieve a common goal

Allies

Troops on horseback

Cavalry

The continental army had to face hard times as it suffered through long a long winter of 1777-1778 at a makeshift camp at ______________

Valley Forge

When the British thought the Americans have retreated they ran into another line of men which led to an American victory

Battle of Cowpens

When an army surrounds and blockades an enemy position in an attempt to capture it

siege

When Cornwallis went to a peninsula and Washington took advantage and attacked. Cornwallis soon surrendered

Battle of Yorktown

The British recognized the United States as an independent nation with borders

Treaty of Paris

Ratified

Approved