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The Road to War Vocabulary
Winning the Revolution Vocabulary
People
Places
Miscellaneous
100
a tax on imported goods
What is tariff
100
a person who works against his or her own country
What is traitor
100
First President of the United States
Who is George Washington
100
Site in southeastern Pennsylvania where George Washington and the Continental Army camped during the winter of 1777 to 1778
What is Valley Forge
100
soldiers from one country who are paid to fight for another country
What is mercenaries
200
law that placed a tax on printed material
What is Stamp Act
200
document stating why the colonies wanted independence
What is Declaration of Independence
200
Patriot express rider; rode from Boston to Lexington on the night of April 18, 1775 warning people the the British soldiers were coming
Who is Paul Revere
200
City was the capital of the US from 1790-1800
What is Philadelphia
200
a rugged stretch of land near the Appalachian Mountains
What is backcountry
300
when colonists dumped tea into the Boston Harbor
What is Boston Tea Party
300
Patriot soldiers from Vermont, led by Ethan Allen
What is Green Mountain Boys
300
Third President of the United States
Who is Thomas Jefferson
300
Capital and largest city in Massachusetts
What is Boston
300
British soldiers fired into a Boston crowd, killing five people
What is Boston Massacre
400
Britain's law making assembly
What is Parliament
400
second meeting of American leaders who made decisions for the colonies and formed a Continental Army
What is Second Continental Army
400
Successful American general during the Revolution who turned traitor in 1780
Who is Benedict Arnold
400
Was the capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War
What is Richmond
400
Colony south of the Carolinas
What is Georgia
500
a volunteer army
What is militia
500
the treaty the officially ended the American Revolution
What is Treaty of Paris
500
African American Patriot and former slave who was killed in the Boston Massacre in 1770
Who is Crispus Attucks
500
site of the last major battle of the American Revolution
What is Yorktown
500
said "I have not yet begun to fight
Who is John Paul Jones