Famous People
Vocabulary
Important Events
Roles in the War
Challenge
100
I trained Patriot soldiers to fight at Valley Forge
Who is Baron von Steuben?
100
Soldiers on horses
What are cavalry?
100
Where Washington camped his troops during 1777-1778
What is Valley Forge?
100
They mostly sided with the British, but certain groups fought with the Americans
What are Native Americans
100
I trained the cavalry.
Who is Casimir Pulaski?
200
I said "I only regret that have but one life to lose for my country"
Who is Nathan Hale
200
foreign soldiers paid to fight for another country
What are mercenaries?
200
Considered the turning point in the war for America
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
200
They provided supplies and weapons secretly
Who were the Spanish?
200
I was the Spanish governor of Louisiana and secretly funded the colonies.
Who is Bernardo de Galvez?
300
I defeated Washington at the Battle of Long Island
Who is Sir William Howe?
300
currency used by Americans during the war
What are continentals?
300
Native American river outposts attacked by George Rogers Clark
What are Kaskaskia and Cahokia?
300
A famous foreign volunteer from Germany
Who is Baron von Steuben?
300
Why Burgoyne's plan to take over New England failed
Why is George III ordered General Howe to attack Philadelphia first?
400
I was a young foreigner who was G. Washington's best bud
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
400
An agreement or pact between two groups for a common cause
What is an alliance?
400
Where the Serapis was defeated by the Bonhomme Richard
What is off the coast of England?
400
ran the farm or business, spied, tended the wounded
Who were colonial women?
400
I disguised myself as a young man to fight in the Revolutionary War
Who is Deborah Sampson?
500
My troops surrounded General Burgoyne at Saratoga and forced him to surrender
Who is General Horatio Gates?
500
To join the military
What is enlist?
500
An early defeat which caused many to doubt if America could win
What is the Battle of Long Island?
500
I was an African-American who spied for the Americans.
Who is James Armistead Lafayette?
500
Who were the members of the committee who wrote the Declaration of Independence
Who are John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, and Benjamin Franklin
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