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