Vocabulary 7.3 List 2 Guide

Social Sciences 7 - ___ Name: ______Vocabulary List 7.3 2 Guide Date: ______Use vocabulary 7.3 list 2 to help you fill in this guide.

Attempt to overthrow a government. 1. rebellion

Meeting of colonists that decided to 2. First Continental Congress boycott British goods and set up militias. It met in 1774.

Ethan Allen led this militia from Vermont 3. Green Mountain Boys that captured cannons at Fort Ticonderoga.

Militia at Lexington and Concord that could 4. Minutemen be ready at a moment’s notice.

A change, an attempt to overthrow Britain 5. revolution as rulers of the colonies.

Volunteer soldiers. 6. militia

The Second Continental Congress sent this 7. Olive Branch Petition to King George III as a last ditch effort to make peace.

Meeting in 1775 which sent the Olive 8. Second Continental Congress Branch Petition to Great Britain and set up the Continental Army with George Washington as its leader.

Hit and run style of warfare used by 9. guerrilla warfare Francis Marion during the American Revolution.

1775-1781 war between the English 10. Revolutionary War Colonies and Great Britain where the colonies won and got their independence.

Mercenary soldiers from Germany who 11. Hessians fought on the British side during the American Revolution.

Treaty which said the United States was a 12. Treaty of Paris (1783) free country. It was signed at the end of the American Revolution.

When ships are used to make sure goods 13. blockade couldn’t get into or out of the country.

When a person or group declares 14. independence themselves free from another group.

Place where Washington’s army spent a 15. Valley Forge tough winter in 1777-1778.

Name for the colonial army led by George 16. Continental Army Washington.

A person that betrays their country. 17. traitor

Showing pride in your country. 18. patriotism