US History Module 4 Vocab

3. former governor-general of India and a British Army general
5. Patriot leader who commanded the Continental army and became the first president of the United States
11. author of Common Sense who wrote that citizens, not monarchs, should make laws
12. American naval officer known as the father of the US Navy
17. a document that argued why the colonists should come together formally and that announce their break from Great Britain
18. a battle in Boston that showed the colonists could fight against the British army
20. an enslaved Black American who worked as a spy and provided information that gave the Continental Army an advantage at Yorktown
21. a Frenchman who volunteered to serve in the Continental Army without pay and used his money and influence to support the Patriots
22. laws passed to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party
23. Boston leader who believed Parliament could not tax the the colonists without their permission

1. a Prussian military officer who trained the Continental Army
2. American colonists who chose to fight for independence
4. a battle won by the Patriots against Hessian mercenaries
6. the last major battle of the American Revolution
7. British soldiers who fought against the colonists in the American Revolution
8. a great victory for the American forces in which British general John Burgone surrendered his entire army to American general Horatio Gates
9. the main author of the Declaration of Independence
10. an incident in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five people
13. American military officer
14. a 47-page pamphlet that argued against British rule over America
15. a protest against the Tea Act in which a group of colonists boarded British tea ships and dumped more than 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor
16. continental Congress a meeting of delegates from 12 colonies in Philadelphia in May 1775
19. the peace agreement in which Great Britain recongnized the independence of the United States