DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

• The formal statement that declared the United States free and independent of control by Britain.

DELEGATE

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

DIPLOMACY

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

INDENTURED SERVANT

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

"THE SHOT HEARD 'ROUND THE WORLD"

• Famous phrase from Ralph Waldo Emersons poem about the first shot of the Revolutionary War,
• At Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts on April 19, 1775

TRAITOR

• A person who betrays his such as Benedict Arnold during the Revolutionary War.

TRICORN

• Three sided hat of both civilian and military fashion during the colonial and Revolutionary War

TYRANNY

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