Revolutionary War Module 4 Vocabulary

required colonists to house British soldiers

• Stamp Act

• Tea Act

• Quartering Act

• Patriots

British soldiers wearing red uniforms

• minutemen

• Redcoats

• Patriots

• President

the Virginian who commanded the Continental army

• Thomas Jefferson

• Abraham Lincoln

• Alexander Hamilton

• George Washington

a Frenchman who volunteered to serve in the Continental Army without pay and used his money and influence to support the Patriots

• Baron Friedrich von Steuben

• Francis Marion

• Marquis de Lafayette

• James Armistead

an enslaved African who worked as a spy and provided

information that gave the Continental army an advantage at Yorktown

• Baron Friedrich von Steuben

• Francis Marion

• Marquis de Lafayette

• James Armistead

a Prussian military officer who trained the

Continental army

• Baron Friedrich von Steuben

• Francis Marion

• Marquis de Lafayette

• James Armistead

a Patriot leader who used hit-and-run attacks, known as guerilla warfare

• Baron Friedrich von Steuben

• Francis Marion

• Marquis de Lafayette

• James Armistead

the governor of Spanish Louisiana who became a Patriot

ally

• Haym Salomon

• John Paul Jones

• Comte de Rochambeau

• Bernardo de Gálvez

naval commander who said, “I have not yet begun to fight!”

• Haym Salomon

• John Paul Jones

• Comte de Rochambeau

• Bernardo de Gálvez

immigrant from Poland who spied for the Patriots and later used his skills as a banker to help fund the American Revolution

• Haym Salomon

• John Paul Jones

• Comte de Rochambeau

• Bernardo de Gálvez