chapter 4
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- martial law
- Rule by the military
- Valley Forge
- Place where Washington's army spent the winter of 1777-1778
- profiteering
- Sellling goods that are difficult to come by for a profit
- egalitarianism
- A belief in equality
- Saratoga
- Battle won by teh Amercans in 1777
- Boston Massacre
- Conflict between colonists and British soldiers in which four colonists wre killed
- Trenton
- Battle won by the Americans in 1776
- committees of correspondence
- A network of communicaiton set up in Massachusetts and Virginia to inform other colonies of ways that Britain threatened colonial rights
- Common Sense
- Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that attacked the monarchy
- Marguis de Lafayette
- French noble who helped the Americans
- King George lll
- King of Enland during the American Revolution
- Thomas Jefferson
- Main author of the Declaration
- Olive Branch Petition
- An offer of peace sent by the Second Continental Congress to King George lll
- Treaty of Paris
- Treaty that officially ended the war
- Patriots
- Colonists who wanted independence from Britain
- Friedrich von Steuben
- Prussian officer who helped train American soldiers
- Declaration of Independence
- Document that said the United States was an independent nation
- Secon Continental Congress
- The meeting of colonial delegates that approved the Declaration of Independence
- Intolerable Acts
- A series of laws set up by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for its protests against the British
- inflation
- Rise in the price of goods
- Boston Tea Party
- Protest against increased tea prices in which colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor
- Loyalists
- Colonists who were loyal to Britain
- minutemen
- Civilian soldiers
- Charles Cornwallis
- British general
- Townshend Acts
- Laws passed by Parliament in 1767 that set taxes on imports to the colonies
- Yorktown
- Battle that gave Americans victory in the war
- Samuel Adams
- One of the founders of the Sons of Liberty
- Stamp Act
- Law passed by Parliament to make colonists buy a stamp to place on many items such as wills and newspapers