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First Continental Congress (1774) a meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to respond to the closing of Boston Harbor, increased taxes, and abuses of authority; delegates petitioned King George III, listing the freedoms they believed colonists should enjoy
Patriots American colonists who fought for independence from Great Britain during the Revolutionary War
Minutemen American colonial militia members ready to fight at a minute's notice
Redcoats British soldiers who fought against the colonists in the American Revolution; so called because of their bright red uniforms
Second Continental Congress (1775) a meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to react to fighting at Lexington and Concord
Continental Army the army created by the Second Continental Congress in 1775 to defend the American colonies from Britain
Battle of Bunker Hill (1775) a Revolutionary War battle in Boston that demonstrated that the colonists could fight well against the British army
Common Sense a 47-page pamphlet that was distributed in of Philadelphia in January 1776. Common Sense was published anonymously Thomas Paine argued that citizens should make laws. At a time when monarchs ruled much of the world, this was a bold idea.
Declaration of Independence (1776) the document written to declare the colonies free from British rule
Loyalists colonists who sided with Britain in the American Revolution
Battle of Trenton (1776) a Revolutionary War battle in New Jersey in which Patriot forces captured more than 900 Hessian troops
Battle of Saratoga (1777) a Revolutionary War battle in New York that resulted in a major defeat of British troops; marked the Patriots’ greatest victory up to that point in the war
mercenaries foreign soldiers who fought not out of loyalty, but for pay.
Battle of Yorktown (1781) the last major battle of the Revolutionary War; site of British general Charles Cornwallis’s surrender to the Patriots in Virginia
Treaty of Paris of 1783 a peace agreement that officially ended the Revolutionary War and established British recognition of the independence of the United States
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