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  1. alliance: aggrement to act together in a cause
  2. artillery: cannons and large guns
  3. Baron von Steuben: volunteer, general in Prussia,offered help to Patriots after Washington won the battles at Trenton & Princeton, arrived at Valley Forge in the spring of 1778
  4. Battle of Saratoga: gain alliances
  5. bayonets: two-foot long steal knives
  6. Benjamin Franklin: PA
  7. Boston: Boston Tea Party
  8. boycott: refuse to buy
  9. Common Sense: by THomas Paine, bold call for Independence, called George III "Royal Brute"
  10. Declaration of Independence: justifies Independence & wrong-doing of the King
  11. Edward Rutledge: SC
  12. enlist: sign up
  13. General Cornwallis: General of Britain, surrendered army of 8000 on 10/19/1781
  14. George III: king of england
  15. George Washington: VA, Commander/General
  16. guerilla fighting: surprise hit and run attacks on the enemy
  17. James WIlson: PA
  18. John Adams: wanted freedom, MA
  19. John Dickinson: PA
  20. john hancock: MA, prez of 2nd continental congress
  21. Loyalists: Americans that feared revolution & supported the british
  22. Marquis de Lafayette: French nobleman, volunteered in the summer of 1777, 1 of the most popular leaders
  23. MArtha WAshington: most famous of all women for joining her husband in army camps, cooking, cleaning, nursing, washing, sewing/mending
  24. Mary Hays: "Molly Pitcher" ->serving tired men water from a wellm joined her husband in the battlefield
  25. militia: an army of ordinary citizens rather than professinal soldiers
  26. mintue men: colonial militia's nickname because they had to be ready within a mintue's notice
  27. Patrick Henry: "...give me liberty or give me death", "I am an american not a virginian" VA
  28. Patriots: AMericans that sided with the Minutemen
  29. Philadelphia: Congress
  30. propaganda: information designed to influence people's thinking or behavior
  31. rendezvous: meeting
  32. revenue: income
  33. sam adams: leader of SoL, organized Commitee of Correspondence in 1772, MA
  34. SOns of Liberty: secret society made mostly of lawyers, artisans, & merchants
  35. Thomas Jefferson: VA, wrote DoI
  36. Thomas Paine: "common sense"
  37. Treaty of PAris 1783: foramlly ended the AMerican Revolutionary War
  38. Valley Forge: help arrives
  39. writs of assistance: legal paper that fave officers the right to search any building for any reason