US History Vocab

2. A meeting of delegates from 12 colonies in Philidalphia in May 1775
8. The peace agreement in which Great Britain recognized the independence of the United States
12. A great victory for the American forces in which British general John Burgoyne surrendered his entire arm to American Horatio Gates
14. hit and run tactics
16. A battle in Boston that showed the colonists could fight well against the British army
19. Main author of Declaration of Independence
20. 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
21. American Navy
22. British soldiers who fought against the colonists in the American Revolution
23. an incident in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five people

1. Laws passed to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party
3. British general surrendered at Yorktown
4. A Frenchman who volunteered to serve in the Continental Army without pay and used his money and influence to support the patriots
5. the document that argued why the colonies should come together formally and that announced their break from Great Britain
6. A Prussian military officer who trained the continental army
7. Author of common sense who wrote that citizens,not monarchs, should make laws
9. American colonists who chose to fight for independence
10. patriot leader who commanded the continental army and became the first president of the United States
11. Boston leader who believed parliament couldn't tax the colonists without their permission
13. an enslaved Black American who worked as a spy and provided information that gave the continental army and advantage at Yorktown
15. the last major battle of the American Revolution
17. A battle won by the Patriots against Hessian Mercenaries
18. a 47-page pamphlet that argued against British rule over America