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16 Cards in this Set
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patriot |
Colonist's who choose tp fight for indpendence from Great Britain |
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Redcoats |
British soldiers |
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Minutemen |
Local militia |
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Loyalists |
Colonist who choose to side with the British |
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Common sense |
A 47 page pamphlet that was written by Thomas Paine |
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Written by Thomas Jefferson and published in July 1776 |
Declaration of independence |
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Treaty of Paris |
Signed in 1783 |
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Trenton |
(1776) A surprise attack against German Hessians in New Jersey |
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Yorktown |
(1781) a battle that happend in Virginia. The last battle of the Americans |
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Bunker hill |
(1775) Taking place in boston, Massachusetts |
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Saratoga |
(1777) a major turning point in the Revolutionary war |
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George Washington |
Leader of the Continental army. |
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William Howe |
British leader during the battle of BunkerHill in NY |
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Henry Knox |
Leader in charge of patriot artillery |
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Nathanael Greene |
2nd in command and under washington |
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Charles Cornwallis |
British leader at the battle of Yorktown |
