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Ch. 4 Vocabulary Quiz
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John Adams
Treaty of Paris
Yorktown
2nd Continental Congress
Battle of Trenton
Stamp Act
Continental Army
mercenary
Thomas Paine
William Howe
1. ________A patriot and the 2nd President of the United States.
2. ________A British commander who ordered a mid-day head on attack.
3. ________1783 peace treaty that ended the Revolutionary War and affirmed American
independence.
4. ________Wrote the pamphlet Common Sense.
5. ________Site in Virginia where Cornwallis’s army surrendered to Washington.
6. ________Professional soldier who is paid to fight in a foreign army.
7. ________Assembly of delegates representing every colony that met in 1775 in Philadelphia.
8. ________Army that represented the colonies during the Revolutionary War.
9. ________1776 Revolutionary War battle in New Jersey, won by the Continental Army.
10. ________1765 law passed by Parliament that required colonists to pay taxes on printed
materials.