The American Revolution Vocabulary Name:

Chapter 7, pages 155-189 Period: ______

Learning Goal:Students will understand the events and individuals that influenced the colonists to declare independence from Great Britain.

Directions: Use your textbook to find definitions for each of the words listed below. Write the definitions in a way that you will understand them! You do not need to copy word for word. Please write your definitions on a separate sheet of paper – Cornell note paper is fine. Study these words hard for your upcoming vocab test – you may join the 100% Club!

The American Revolution Vocabulary Name:

Chapter 7, pages 155-189 Period: ______

Section 1 (p. 194)

  1. George Washington – commander of the Continental Army
  2. John Burgoyne – British army general in the Revolutionary War
  3. Joseph Brant – Mohawk chief allied with the British
  4. Benedict Arnold – U.S. Army general in the Revolutionary War who later turned traitor
  5. Horatio Gates – U.S. Army general in the Revolutionary War
  6. Battles of Saratoga – a series of conflicts in 1777 near Albany, NY
  7. neutral – not favoring any one side
  8. pacifist – someone who is opposed to all war
  9. mercenary - a professional soldier hired to fight for a foreign country
  10. strategy – an overall plan of action
  11. rendezvous – a meeting
  12. guerrillas – small bands of fighters who weaken the enemy with surprise raids and hit-and-run attacks

Section 2 (p.204)

  1. Marquis de Lafayette – French aristocrat who volunteered to serve in Washington’s army
  2. Valley Forge – site in southeast Pennsylvania where Washington and his army camped in the winter of 1777-1778
  3. George Rogers Clark – frontiersman who helped defend the Western frontier
  4. John Paul Jones – sea commander who attacked British ships near the British coast
  5. Wilderness Road – a trail into Kentucky
  6. ally – a country that agrees to help another country achieve a common goal
  7. desert – to leave military duty without permission
  8. privateer – a privately owned ship that has been granted permission by a wartime government to attack an enemy’s merchant ships

Section 3 (p. 212)

  1. Battle of Charles Town – British siege of Charles Town (Charleston), South Carolina, In May 1780, in which the Americana suffered their worst defeat of the war
  2. Lord Cornwallis – British general whose campaigns in the South led to his defeat at Yorktown
  3. Battle of Yorktown – final battle of the war, in which French and American forces led by George Washington defeated British General Cornwallis
  4. redoubt – a small fort

Section 4 (p.222)

  1. Treaty of Paris – the 1783 treaty that ended the Revolutionary War
  2. Elizabeth Freeman – enslaved African American who won her freedom in court
  3. Richard Allen – African American preacher who helped start the Free African Society
  4. Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom – statement of religious liberty, written by Thomas Jefferson
  5. disputes - disagreements
  6. outposts – military bases, usually located on the frontier
  7. nondenominational – not favoring any particular religion

The American Revolution Vocabulary Name:

Chapter 7, pages 155-189 Period: ______

The American Revolution Vocabulary Name:

Chapter 7, pages 155-189 Period: ______

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