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Chapter.7 vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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he was the commender of continental Army | George Washington |
a professional soldier hired to fight for a foreign country | Mercenary |
an overall plan of action | Strategy |
a meeting | rendezvous |
a series of conflicts between British soldiers and the continental Army in 1777 that proved to be a turning point in the Revolutionary War | Battle of Saratoga |
a country that agrees to help other country achieve a common goal | ally |
he was a 19 year old Frenchnobleman who volunteered to serve in Washington's army | Marquis de Lafayette |
a long steel knife attached to the end of gun | bayonet |
to leave military duty without intending to return | desert |
a privatly owned ship that has government permission during wartime to attach an enemy's mrchant ships | privateer |
who was the son of a free African-American sail maker | James Forten |
he won the most famous sea battle | Jhon Paul Jones |
He was one of British General | Lord Cornwallis |
a soldier who weakens the enemy with surprise raids and hit-and-run attacks | guerrillas |
a person morally opposed to war | pacifist |
the last major battle of the Revolutionary war, which resulted in the surrender of British forces in 1781 | Battle of Yorktown |
the 1763 treaty that ended the French and Indian war; Britain gained all of North Amrica east of the Mississippi River | Treaty of Paris |
the belief that government should be based on the consent of the people; people exercise their power by voting for political representatives | republicanism |
she fought a court case that helped end slavery in Massachusetts | Elizabeth Freeman |
he helped start the Free American socity | Richard Allen |