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100
The name of the official army of the colonies.
What is the Continental Army?
100
In order for a bill to be passed in Congress, every delegate must do this.
What is ratify?
100
The phrase coined by colonists expressing their frustrations with Great Britain.
What is Taxation without Representation?
100
The type of fighting which calls for hit-and-run techniques.
What is guerilla warfare?
100
A person who remained loyal to Great Britain.
What is a loyalist?
200
The military leader of the colonies.
Who is George Washington?
200
The introduction to the Declaration of Independence.
What is the preamble?
200
This man wrote the pamphlet "Common Sense" about gaining independence from the British.
Who is Thomas Paine?
200
A person who has been asked to serve in the military.
What is a recruit?
200
A person who fought with other colonists against Great Britain.
What is a patriot?
300
A person hired to fight for another country.
What is a mercenary?
300
A formal request.
What is a petition?
300
When the colonists agreed to not buy certain products from the British in order to economically hurt them.
What is to boycott?
300
When a person leaves the military without permission.
What is deserting?
300
When someone chooses not to pick sides.
What is netural?
400
To attack enemy forces quickly and by surprise.
What is an ambush?
400
The document signed to end the war and recognize American independece.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
400
The act that lowered the tax on molasses in hopes that the colonists would put aside any ideas of revolution against the British.
What is the Sugar Act?
400
The British tried this technique to cut off supplies and reinforcements from the colonies.
What is a blockade?
400
Washington and the Continental Army laid siege to British troops in this town in Virginia.
What is Yorktown?
500
To surround and force your enemy to surrender by cutting them off from supplies and food.
What is a siege?
500
Writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
500
This country aided the colonists in their fight for freedom through a trade agreement and alliance.
What is France?
500
An armed private ship.
What is a privateer?
500
French nobleman who joined the colonists to help fight for their cause.
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?