US History Module 4 Vocabulary

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  1. 1. Passed to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party
  2. 3. a meeting of delegates from 12 colonies in Philadelphia in May 1775Declarationofindependence
  3. 4. a Prussian military officer who trained the Continental armyJohnpauljones
  4. 7. the last major battle of the American RevolutionTreatyofparis1783
  5. 8. American military officer
  6. 9. an incident in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five peopleBostonteaparty 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
  7. 10. Leader who believed Parliament could not tax the colonists without their permission
  8. 11. American colonists who chose to fight for independence
  9. 12. author of Common Sense who wrote that citizens, not monarchs, should make lawsTomasJefferson
  10. 13. a 47-page pamphlet that argued against British rule over America
  11. 15. Naval officer who served in contential army
  12. 16. the peace agreement in which Great Britain recognized the independence of the United States
  13. 17. the main author of the Declaration of IndependenceMarquisdeLafayette
  14. 18. Leader who commanded the Continental army and became the first president of the United States
  15. 19. British soldiers who fought against the colonists in the American RevolutionSecondcontentalCongress
  16. 20. an enslaved Black American who worked as a spy and provided information that gave the Continental army an advantage at YorktownBostonMassacrean Incident in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five people
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  1. 2. a battle in Boston that showed the colonists could fight well against the British armyCommonsense
  2. 5. British army officer who surrendered at siege of yorktown
  3. 6. the document that argued why the colonies should come together formally and that announced their break from Great BritainBattleoftrenton a battle won by the Patriots against Hessian mercenariesBattleofsaratoga
  4. 14. a Frenchman who volunteered to serve in the Continental army without pay and used his money and influence to support the PatriotsFrancisMarion