CONTINENTAL

• A soldier of the American army during the revolution. It was also the useless paper money issued by congress to help pay for the war.

CONTINENTAL CONGRESS

• An assembly of representatives from the American Colonies which operated as the legislative body during the revolutionary period.

FACSIMILE

• A reproduction of a document,book,painting, or item.

MILITIA

• Citizen soldiers who were called out for emergencies to defend their homes and villages. Militia were first formed in new England to guard against Indian attacks. The minutemen were militia

MINUTEMEN

• Colonial militia who has pledged to fight the British at a minutes notice. They fought the British at Lexington and Concord in April 1775 to begin the American Revolution.

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MOB

• An undisciplined group of protestors who often take the law into their own hands.

PARLIAMENT

• The official governing body of Great Britain made up of the House of Lords and the House of Commons

PRIVATEER

• Small privately owned merchant ships that were fitted out with weapons to capture British merchant shipping.

REBEL

• British slang term for an American or patriot NOT loyal to Britain during the war.

REDCOATS

• Slang term for the British soldier who wore scarlet red uniform jackets.

STRATEGY

• The art of military command as to an overall plan of war. How to deploy troops and where to put them is part of strategic planning.

GEORGE WASHINGTON 1775

• “When we assumed the soldier, we did not lay aside the citizen”

PAUL REVERE 1775

• “Turn out, turn out! The British are coming. The British are coming!”

PATRIOT LEADERS 1775

• “One if by land. Two if by sea”

COLONEL JOHN PARKER

• “Hold your fire, men, but if the mean to have war, let it begin here”

SAM ADAMS

• “What a glorious morning for America!”

DÉCLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

• The formal statement that declared the United States free and independent of control of Great Britain. It was written by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by the second Continental Congress on July 4,1776

DELEGATE

• A person authorized or sent as a representative of others, such as the delegate to the Second Continental Congress

DIPLOMACY

• The artful handling of international relations, a skill necessary to negotiate a successful treaty

INDENTURED

• A person, who in exchange for free passage to the American Colonies worked for a master for a period of from four to seven years. Many Americans came to the British Colonies as an indentured sevent

LOYALIST/TORY

• An American who did not support revolution against Great Britain and was loyal to king George 111. Approximlety one third of all American Colonies during the revolution were loyalist.

TRAITOR

• A person who betrays his country such as Benedict Arnold during the revolution

TRICORN

• Three sided hat of both civilian and military fashion during the colonel and revolutionary war

TYRANNY

• An oppressive and unjust government ruled by tyrant, or absolute ruler. Americans believed that the British government was tyranny

YANKEE

• Slang term used to describe a person from New England. Later this term was used to describe an inhabitant of the United States

DÉCLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

DÉCLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

NATHEN HALE

THOMAS PAINE

GEORGE WASHINGTON