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26 Cards in this Set
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colonists who sided with britain in the american revolution
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Loyalists
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Brithish soldiers who fought against the colonists in the american revolution; so called because of their bright red uniforms
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Redcoats
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American colonial militia members who were suppose to be ready to fight a a minute's notice
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minutemen
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hired foreign soldiers
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`mercenaries
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American colonists who fought for independence from Great Britain who fought during the Revolutionary War
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Patriots
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took over her husband's business affairs including the family farm
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Abagail Adams
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last major battle of the Revolutionary War; site of British general, Charles Cornwallis's surrender to the Patriots in Virginia
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Battle of Yorktown
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Revolutionary War battle in which the Patriots drove back British forces in New Jersey
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Battle of Princeton
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organized Marion's Brigade
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Francis Marion
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disguised herself as a man to fight in the war
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Deborah Sampson
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peace request sent by the Second Continental Congress to Britain's King George III who rejected it
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Olive Branch petition
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town in SE virginia, sit of the last battle of the American Revolution
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Yorktown
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primary author of the Declaration of the Independence
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Thomas Jefferson
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commander of the Continental Army
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George Washington
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Battle in New York that resulted in a major defeat of the British troops; marked the Patriots greatest victory up to that point
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Battle of Saratoga
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general nicknamed "gentlemen Johnny"
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John Burgoyne
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River that flows from Minnesota down to the Gulf of Mexico
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Mississippi River
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arrived from France to help Americans; spoke little English
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Marquis de Layfayette
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British general; ordered retreat from Boston to Canada
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William Howe
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Meeting of colonial delegates in Philidelphia to decide how to handle increased British taxation and abused by British authorities; delegates sent a petition to Britain demanding the rights of life, liberty and property
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1st Continental Congress
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creek in Pennsylvania and Delaware that was the site of the REvolutionary War's Battle in 1777
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Brandywine Creek
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meeting of colonial delegates in Philidelphia to decide how to react to fighting at Lexington and Concord
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2nd continental congress
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Revolutionary War battle in New Jersey in which Patriot forces captured more than 900 Hessian troops fighting for Britain
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Battle of Trenton
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self-educated British Quaker; author of the Common Sense pamphlet
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Thomas Paine
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young frontiersman; stepped forward to organize the Patriots' western campaign
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George Rogers Clark
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statement of the Second Continental congress that defined the colonists' rights and their complaints against Great Britain and declared the colonies' freedom
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Declaration of Independence
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