6: Independence for the Colonies

Charles Cornwallis

________: commanding general of the British forces defeated at Yorktown in 1781.

Loyalists

________: colonists that believed the British; and favored the British.

Olive Branch Petition

________: peaceful request from the members of the Second Constitutional Convention to the King.

Mercenaries

________: hired soldiers such as the Hessians.

Nathanael Greene

________: A major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War.

Thomas Paine

________: Revolutionary leader who wrote the pamphlet Common Sense (1776)

John Burgoyne

________: British general in the American Revolution who captured Fort Ticonderoga.

Thomas Jefferson

________: one of the five men appointed to help write the Declaration of Independence.

Privateers

________: merchant ships outfitted to fight.

Torries

________: Loyalists; supported the king although they were Americans.

Hessians

________: hired soldiers named after the German region.

William Howe

________: British general who defeated the Americans at BunkerHill Boston.

Second Continental Congress

________: May 10, 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Marquis de Lafayette

________: French soldier who joined General Washington and became general in the Continental Army.

American leaders

Treaty of Paris: agreement signed by British and ________ that stated the United States of America was a free and independent country.

Continental Army

________: The army at Boston that was taken over by the Congress.

John Paul Jones

________: American naval commander in the American Revolution.

American Revolution

During the ________, he (Benedict Arnold) was instrumental in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga but later planned to betray west point to the British.

Declaration of Independence

________: approved on July 4, 1776.

Saratoga

________: the battle that took place in New York.