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CH 7 vocab AM
Question | Answer |
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became the comander of the continental army, | George Washinton |
a professional solider hired to fight for a foreign country | mercenary |
a overalll plan of action | strategy |
or meeting with St. lenger and Howe in Albany | redezvous |
series of conflicts that led to surrender | Battle of Saratoga |
a country that help another country achive a goal | ally |
19 year old french nobleman who voulenteered in washingtons army, given commander in army division | Marquis de lafayette |
large steel knives placed at the ends of guns | bayonet |
to leave military duty without intending to come back | desert |
to privately own a ship that a wartime gov. gives you premission to attack merchant ships | privateer |
he sailed and got captured by the British and was offered a free trip to England | James Forten |
A Naval hero was the most famous sea battle | John Paul Jones |
British General who led a army that was to be challenged | Lord Cornwallis |
small bands of firefighters who weaken the enemy with suprise hi and run raids | guerrillias |
opposed to war | pacifist |
American and French troops bombarded Yorktown with cannons and left their buildings to rubble | Battle of Yorktown |
ters that led to the ending of the revolutionary war | Treaty of Paris of 1783 |
indtead of king the people would rule | rebuplicanism |
fought a court case which helped end slavery in Massachusetts | Elizabeth Freeman |
helped start the Free african society and encouraged african Americans to help each other | Richard Allen |