AP US chapter 8 studyguide
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| a professional soldier who serves in a foreign army for pay | ||
| a formal written accusation charging someone with a crime | ||
| a form of government characterized by absolute state power and the unlimited authority of the ruler | ||
| a nation or person not taking sides in a war | ||
| a citizen not in military service | ||
| one who betrays a country by aiding an enemy | ||
| to seize private property for public use, often as a penalty | ||
| a messenger or agent sent by a government on official business | ||
| a mass of disorderly and crude common people | ||
| a place for making or storing weapons and ammunition | ||
| concerning the belief that a country should take little or no part in foreign affairs, especially through alliances or wars | ||
| passed down from generation to generation | ||
| the isolation of a place by hostile ships or troops | ||
| a private vessel temporarily authorized to capture or plunder enemy ships in wartime | ||
| taking advantage of one's official position to gain money or property by illegal means | ||
| to restore their rights within the British Empire | ||
| of his integrity, courage, and moral forcefulness | ||
| an invasion of Canada by generals Arnold and Montgomery | ||
| had little loyalty to the British cause and ended up deserting | ||
| their own experience with local and colonial democratic governance had prepared them for the idea | ||
| an independent and republican America separate from Britain | ||
| conservative and well-off Americans | ||
| General Benedict Arnold | ||
| it brought about crucial French assistance to the Revolutionary cause | ||
| the practical self-interest of needing assistance to defeat the British | ||
| in the Carolinas | ||
| they believed that a victorious Britain would contain westward American expansions | ||
| the French navy under Admiral de Grasse | ||
| to aquire only the territory east of the Appalachian Mountains | ||
| the desire of the weak Whig ministry in London for friendly future relations with the United States | ||
| the body that chose Washington commander of the Continental Army | ||
| the British colony that Americans invaded in hopes of adding it to the rebellious thirteen | ||
| the inflammatory pamphlet that demanded independence and heaped scorn on "the Royal Brute of Great Britain" | ||
| the document that provided a lengthy explanation and justification of Richard Henry Lee's resolution that was passed by Congress on July 2, 1776 | ||
| the term(s) by which the American Patriots were commonly known, to distinguish them from the American "Tories" | ||
| another name for the American Tories | ||
| the church body most closely linked with Tory sentiment, except in Virginia | ||
| the river valley that was the focus of Britain's early military strategy and the scene of Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga in 1777 | ||
| 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 | ||
| the region that saw some of the Revolution's most bitter fighting, from 1780 to 1782, between American General Greene and British General Cornwallis | ||
| "legalized pirates" more than a thousand strong, who inflicted heavy damage on British shipping | ||
| British political party that replaced Lord North's Tories in 1782 and made a generous treaty with the United States | ||
| the western boundary of the United States established in the Treaty of Paris | ||
| the irregular American troops who played a crucial role in swaying the neutral civilian population toward the Patriot cause | ||
| the other European nation besides France and Spain that supported the American Revolution by declaring war on Britain | ||
| a weathly virginian of great character and leadership abilities who served his country without pay | ||
| military engagement that led King George III officially to delcare the colonists in revolt | ||
| brilliant American general who invaded Canada, foiled Burgoyne's invasion, and then betrayed his country in 1780 | ||
| a radical British immigrant who put an end to American toasts to King George | ||
| fiery Virginian and author of the official resolution of July 2, 1776, formally authorizing the colonies' independence | ||
| author of an explanatory indictment, signed on Jul 4, 1776, that accused George III of establishing a military dictatorship | ||
| Americans who fought for King George and earned the contempt of Patriots | ||
| blundering British general whose slow progress south from Canada ended in disaster at Saratoga | ||
| British general who chose to enjoy himself in New York and Philadelphia rather tha nvigorously pursue the American enemy | ||
| American diplomat who forged the alliance with France and later secured a generous peace treaty | ||
| leader whose small force conquered key British forts in the West | ||
| american naval commander who successfully harassed British shipping | ||
| the decisive early battle of the revolution that led to the alliance with France | ||
| the British defeat that led to the fall of North's government and the end of the war | ||
| Mohawk chief who led many Iroquois to fight with Britain against American revolutionaries |
