Fast & Curious American Revolution 2

First Continental Congress

• (1775) a meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to react to fighting at Lexington and Concord
• (1774) a meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to respond to the Coercive Acts; delegates petitioned King George III, listing the freedoms they believed colonists should enjoy
• (1775) a Revolutionary War battle in Boston that demonstrated that the colonists could fight well against the British army; a "moral victory"
• the fighting force created by the Second Continental Congress in 1775 to defend the American colonies from Britain

Patriots

• (1730-1794) Prussian soldier who helped train American forces at Valley Forge in the American Revolutionary War
• American colonists who fought for independence from Great Britain during the Revolutionary War
• American colonial militia members ready to fight at a moment's notice
• colonists who sided with Britain in the American Revolution

minutemen

• colonists who sided with Britain in the American Revolution
• American colonial militia members ready to fight at a moment's notice
• American colonists who fought for independence from Great Britain during the Revolutionary War
• hired foreign soldiers

Redcoats

• (1730-1794) Prussian soldier who helped train American forces at Valley Forge in the American Revolutionary War
• He was a French soldier who commanded the French troops in the American Revolutionary War. He was with General George Washington at the Battle of Yorktown.
• American colonists who fought for independence from Great Britain during the Revolutionary War
• Nickname for British soldiers who fought against the colonists in the American Revolution; so called because of their bright colored uniforms

Second Continental Congress

• American colonists who fought for independence from Great Britain during the Revolutionary War
• American colonial militia members ready to fight at a moment's notice
• (1775) a meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to react to fighting at Lexington and Concord
• (1776) a Revolutionary War battle in New Jersey in which Patriot forces captured more than 900 Hessian troops

Continental Army

• (1776) a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that criticized monarchies and convinced many American colonists to break away from Britain
• colonists who sided with Britain in the American Revolution
• the fighting force created by the Second Continental Congress in 1775 to defend the American colonies from Britain
• (1730-1794) Prussian soldier who helped train American forces at Valley Forge in the American Revolutionary War

George Washington

• the fighting force created by the Second Continental Congress in 1775 to defend the American colonies from Britain
• A member of two Continental Congresses, chairman of the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence, the Declaration's main author, and the third president of the U.S.
• This peace agreement officially ended the Revolutionary War and established British recognition of the independence of the United States
• He served as a representative to the Continental Congresses, commanded the Continental Army, and was unanimously elected to two terms as president of the United States.

Battle of Bunker Hill

• (1775) a meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to react to fighting at Lexington and Concord
• (1776) a Revolutionary War battle in New Jersey in which Patriot forces captured more than 900 Hessian troops
• (1776) the document written to announce the colonies' freedom from British rule
• (1775) a Revolutionary War battle in Boston that demonstrated that the colonists could fight well against the British army; a "moral victory"

Common Sense

• (1776) the document written to announce the colonies' freedom from British rule
• (1776) a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that criticized monarchies and convinced many American colonists to break away from Britain
• (1776) a Revolutionary War battle in New Jersey in which Patriot forces captured more than 900 Hessian troops
• the fighting force created by the Second Continental Congress in 1775 to defend the American colonies from Britain

Thomas Paine

• An American political philosopher and author, he urged an immediate declaration of independence from England in his anonymously and simply written pamphlet
• American colonists who fought for independence from Great Britain during the Revolutionary War
• (1730-1794) Prussian soldier who helped train American forces at Valley Forge in the American Revolutionary War
• A member of two Continental Congresses, chairman of the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence, the Declaration's main author, and the third president of the U.S.