Why did the chicken cross the road? He was a democrat
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| 35884233 | Mercenary | A professional soldier who serves in a foreign army for pay. | |
| 35884234 | Indictment | A formal written accusation charging someone with a crime. | |
| 35884235 | Dictatorship | A form of government characterized by absolute state power and the unlimited authority of the ruler. | |
| 35884236 | Neutral | A nation or person not taking sides in a war. | |
| 35884237 | Civilian | A citizen not in military service. | |
| 35884238 | Traitor | One who betrays a country by aiding an enemy. | |
| 35884239 | Confiscate | To seize property for public use, often as a penalty. | |
| 35884240 | Envoy | A messenger or agent sent by a government on official business. | |
| 35884241 | Rabble | A mass of disorderly and crude common people. | |
| 35884242 | Arsenal | A place for making or storing weapons and ammunition. | |
| 35884243 | Isolationist | Concerning the belief that a country should take little or no part in foreign affairs, especially through alliances or wars. | |
| 35884244 | Hereditary | Passed down from generation to generation. | |
| 35884245 | Blockade | The isolation of a place by hostile ships or troops. | |
| 35884246 | Privateer | A private vessel temporary authorized to capture or plunder enemy ships in wartime. | |
| 35884247 | Graft | Taking advantage of one's official position to gain money or property by illegal means. | |
| 35884248 | II Continental Congress | The body that chose George Washington commander of the Continental Army | |
| 35884249 | Canada (Quebec) | The British colony that Americans invaded in hopes of adding it to the rebellious thirteen | |
| 35884250 | Common Sense | The inflammatory pamplet that demanded independence and heaped scorn on "the Royal Brute of Great Britain" | |
| 35884251 | Deceleration of Independence | The document that provided a lengthy explanation and justification of Richard Henry Lee's resolution that was passed by Congress on July 2, 1776 | |
| 35884252 | Whigs | The them by which the American Patriots were commonly known, to distinguished them from the American "Tories" | |
| 35884253 | Loyalists | Another name for American Tories | |
| 35884254 | Anglican | The church body most closely linked with Tory sentiment, except in Virgina | |
| 35884255 | Hudson | The river valley that was the focus of Britain's early military strategy and the scene of Burgoyne's Surrender at Saratoga in 1777 | |
| 35884256 | Armed Neutrality | Term for the alliance of Catherine the Great of Russia and other European powers who did not declare war but assumed a hostile neutrality toward Britain | |
| 35884257 | South | The region that saw some of the Revolution's most bitter fighting, from 1780 to 1782, between American General Greene and British General Cornwallis | |
| 35884258 | Privateers | "Legalized pirates," more than a thousand strong, who inflicted heavy damage on British shipping | |
| 35884259 | Whigs | British political party that replaced Lord North's Tories in 1782 and made a generous treaty with the United States | |
| 35884260 | Mississippi River | The western boundary of the United States established in the Treaty of Paris | |
| 35884261 | Militiamen | The irregular American troops who played a crucial role in swaying the neutral civilian population toward the Patriot cause | |
| 35884262 | Holland | The other European nation besides France and Spain that supported the American Revolution by declaring war on Britain |
