American Revolution

Meeting of representatives from every colony except Georgia held in Philadelphia in 1774 to discuss actions to take in response to the Intolerable Acts

• First Continental Congress

• Second Continental Congress

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• Militia

Volunteer armies

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• Treaty of Paris

• Militia

Colonial militia groups that could be ready to fight at a minute's notice

• American Revolution

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Minutemen

• Battle of Saratoga

The war between the 13 colonies and Great Britain from 1775 to 1783 in which the 13 colonies won their independence and became the United States

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Militia

• Treaty of Paris

• American Revolution

Costly victory for British troops over the Patriots in Charleston, Massachusetts, in the American Revolution on June 17, 1775

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Battle of Saratoga

• American Revolution

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Soldier from one country who is paid to fight for another country

• Militia

• Minutemen

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Congress of American leaders that first met in 1775, declared independence in 1776, and helped lead the United States during the Revolution

• American Revolution

• Treaty of Paris

• Second Continental Congress

• First Continental Congress

Document declaring the 13 American colonies independent of Great Britain, written mainly by Thomas Jefferson and adopted on July 4, 1776, by the Second Continental Congress

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• Treaty of Paris

• First Continental Congress

• Declaration of Independence

Person who works against his or her country

• Minutemen

• Militia

• Traitor

• Mercenary

American victory over British troops in 1777 that was a turning point in the American Revolution

• Battle of Saratoga

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• American Revolution

• Treaty of Paris