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10 Cards in this Set
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Loyalist |
A colonist who supported the British government during the American Revolution |
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Patriots |
A colonist who supported American independence from Britain |
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Saratoga |
American troops surrendered it became one of the most important events |
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Valley Forge |
A winter camp where Washington and his Continental Army were low on food supplies |
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Inflation |
An increase in prices or decline in purchasing power caused by an increase in the supply of money |
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MarQuis de Lafayette |
A foreign military leader who offered his help to the American troops |
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Charles Cornwallis |
Captured Charles town, South Carolina, in May 1780 |
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York town |
A British general led his army of 7,500 onto the peninsula between the James and York River and camped at Yorktown |
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Treaty of Paris |
Was signed in September 1783, which confirmed US independence and set the boundaries of the new nation |
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Egalitarianism |
A belief in the equality of all people |
