History 7-Module 4

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What was the last major battle of the Revolutionary War?

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Yorktown

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A meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia in 1774 to decide how to respond to the closing of Boston Harbor, increased taxes, and abuses of authority by the British government

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1st Continental Congress

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A fighting style that uses hit and run tactics

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Guerrilla Warfare

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American colonists who fought for the independence from Great Britain during the Revolutionary War

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Patriots

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A volunteer in the Continental Navy who said, "I have not yet begun to fight."

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John Paul Jones

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Colonial militia members who were ready to fight at a minute's notice

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Minutemen

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The governor of Spanish Louisiana who helped seize British forts from Louisiana to Florida during the Revolutionary War

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Bernardo de Galvez

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British soldiers who fought against the colonists in the American Revolution

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Redcoats

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A military officer from Prussia who helped train troops by focusing on basic military drills

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Baron von Steuben

Front

Where were the first shots of the Revolutionary War fired?

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Lexington and Concord