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The document that conveyed a desire for peace and sent to the king
Olive branch petition
Those who favored fighting the British
Patriots
Another name for Loyalists
Tories
Date of final approval of the declaration of independence
July 4, 1776
Where the British surrendered
Yorktown
Mercenary troops who fought for the British
Hessians
Author of Common Sense
Thomas Paine
Patriot quartermaster
Nathaniel Greene
Primary author of declaration of independence
Thomas Jefferson
America’s western boundary
Mississippi River
Conciliatory to King George
Olive branch petition
Trading ships equipped for war
Privateers
Backed British in war
Loyalists
Prussian drill master at Valley Forge
Baron Von Steuben
Frenchman who aided the American
Marquis de Lafayette
Officially ended the War of Independence
Treaty of Paris
Ethan Allen
Leader of the Green Mountain boys; captured Fort Ticonderoga
Benedict Arnold
Took forts and was a traitor
John Burgoyne
Led British to defeat Saratoga
George Rogers Clark
Patriot General who fought Indians in the west
Charles Cornwallis
British; surrendered at Yorktown
John Paul Jones
Naval officer who won against the British
The group that took control of the army on the north sea at Boston and asked for war supplies
Second Continental Congress
Won at Fort Ticonderoga
Patriots
