Battles
Bunker Hill was the intended hill to defend against the British, but a different hill was chosen.
What is Breed's Hill?
After the Battle of Saratoga, George Washington and the Continental Army built rudimentary cabins and braved the cold, lack of food, and disease during the winter of 1777-1778.
What is Valley Forge?
The document that stated that the American colonies were breaking away from Britain and how their rights had been violated as British citizens.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
They kept the farms and businesses running. Some joined the army as cooks and servants. Others were spies, raised money, sewed clothing for the soldiers, and nursed the wounded.
Bonus (200pts): They were the years of the American Revolution.
Who are the women during the American Revolution?
What were 1775-1783?
They were mercenaries who fought for the British. Bonus for 100pts: The mercenaries are from___________.
Who were the Hessians? What is Germany?
This battle was won by the Redcoats after three costly attacks up an embankment because the Patriots ran out of ammunition. It took place in the city and colony punished by the Intolerable Acts.
Near dawn on May 10, 1775, Benedict Arnold and the Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen crept past soldiers on duty at the fort. Without any bloodshed, the Americans had captured British cannons and cut off British support from Canada.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill? What is Boston, Massachusetts?
What is Fort Ticonderoga?
The battle in which Cornwallis's army and navy were trapped and the Continental army laid siege. Bonus for 200pts: The British could not continue the fight in the colonies despite the pleas of King George III.
What is the Battle of Yorktown? What is lack of money or lack of support from Parliament?
It encouraged enslaved Black men to fight for the British and gain their freedom. Bonus (100pts): The governor of this colony issued this document.
Part 1: It was a list of grievances against the King and Parliament for violating the colonists' rights according to the English Bill of Rights. Daily Double - Part 2: It recognized the independence of the United States.
What is Lord Dunmore's Proclamation? What is Virginia?
What is the Declaration of Independence? What is the Treaty of Paris?
It consisted of merchants, farmers, lawyers, and craftsmen.
What is the Continental army? Or...What are the Sons of Liberty?
Two Parts: He was appointed to serve the _______________after the Battle of Bunker (Breed's) Hill.
Who was George Washington? What was the Continental Army?
Part I: The "shot heard round the world" officially started the American Revolution. Part II: It was the reason that a second location was targeted.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord? What is to move the munitions, weapons and ammunition, to a different location, so the Redcoats could not confiscate them?
Part I: It was a turning point for the Patriots and it showed that Americans could defeat a large British army in New York, a stronghold of the Redcoats. Part II: It convinced_______ to openly support the Americans.
What is Saratoga? What is France?
Part I: This document tried to exhort Americans to break away from Great Britain because a small island should not rule an entire continent. Part II: The author was born in England but he encouraged the American Revolution.
What is the Common Sense Pamphlet? Who is Thomas Paine?
He was from Germany and trained the Continental Army at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
Throughout the war, there was one Patriot strategy that was successful against the Redcoats. After the Redcoats could not stump out the local rebellions, it created a new strategy before it failed...again. ;)
Who is Baron von Steuben?
What are hit and run tactics or guerilla warfare? What is hiding behind camouflage? What is targeting officers? What is surprise attack?
What is to cut the head off the snake off? In other words, what is to isolate the New England colonies from the others?
Part I: They were warned by midnight riders that the British army would arrest them for their rebellious acts. Part II: Name one of the two midnight riders that did not make it to Concord.
He was a Frenchman, who became an American major general at 20 and volunteered without pay.
Who are Samuel Adams and John Hancock? Who is Paul Revere or William Dawes?
FYI- Samuel Preston made it to Concord.
Who was Marquis de Lafayette?
Part 1: George Washington's troops cross the Delaware River and make a surprise attack. Part 2: The colony where the attack took place was across from Pennsylvania.
What is the Battle of Trenton? What is New Jersey?
Part I: It was the battle that ended the American Revolution. Part II: It took place in this colony.
Part 1: It was a two part battle and General Charles Cornwallis felt confident in "bagging the fox" in the morning, but the majority of Washington's troops left fires burning to distract the Redcoats as the Continental army escaped the majority of Cornwallis's army. Part 2: Identify where the battle took place. Bonus for 200pts: What is the date in which the battle started?
What is the Battle of Yorktown? What is Virginia?
Part 1: It called upon the Summer Soldier and the Sunshine Patriot to continue their fight, to be patriots, and to be heroes in the endeavor of liberty and independence.
Part 2: Because re-enlistment was low, George Washington ordered his officers to read it before crossing the Delaware River and before the successful battle that increased morale.
Lord Dunmore Proclamation
What is "The American Crisis"? What is the Battle of Trenton?
What decree promised slaves freedom if they fought for the British?
Name two specific advantages of the Redcoats and two specific advantages of the Patriots at the beginning of the American Revolution.
What are professional soldiers, well-equipped army and navy, a treasury, and mercenaries called Hessians?
What are guerilla tactics, Thomas Paine, knowing the terrain, and liberty/self-government as a cause to fight for?
Part I: He wrote "Give Me Liberty of Give Me Death" comparing taxation without representation to slavery. Part II: The rights of three groups were left out of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.
He trained Continenal soldiers how to be a professional army while encamped at Valley Forge.
Who is Patrick Henry? Who were women, Native Americans, and African Americans?
Who is Baron von Steuben?
Part I: In the beginning of the war, it was the British strategy to defeat the Continental Army. Part II: It was a Patriot battle strategy used by Daniel Morgan and others to use hit and run tactics to surprise the British.
Henry Knox brought the cannons on sleds from Fort Ticonderoga, New York and surrepitiously placed them along_____________to force the British navy from Boston Harbor. It forced ______ (a number) Loyalists to flee along with 9,000 British naval soldiers to Nova Scotia in Canada.
What is cutting off New England from the rest of the colonies to stop the supply chain and weakening the Patriots' motivation to fight, therefore ending the war? What is guerilla warfare?
What is Dorchester Heights? What is 2,000 Loyalists?
Put the following events in chronological order: Princeton, Valley Forge, Lexington and Concord, Yorktown, Saratoga, Bunker Hill, and Trenton.
What is Lexington and Concord, MA; Bunker Hill, MA; Trenton, NJ; Princeton, NJ; Saratoga, NY; Valley Forge, PA; and Yorktown, VA
Part I: King George III refused to read this document that offered a reconciliation after the Battles of Lexington and Concord because he was angered that his unruly subjects had the nerve to rebel against the British Empire; he wanted to squash the rebellious colonies. Part II: The document was written by John Dickinson from the interim government.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Part II: He authored the final version of this document.
What is the Olive Branch Petition? What is the Second Continental Congress?
What is the most quoted line from the Declaration of Independence? Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Part I: He was a young, rich Frenchman, who believed in the American Revolution and helped financially support the war effort, as well as be an officer in the Continental Army. Part II:He was a French general that collaborated with General George Washington to lay seige to Yorktown and defeat the British army once and for all.
Give five disparate facts about the Stamp Act.
Who was Marquid de Lafayette? Who was General Rochambeau?
What is the formation of the Sons of Liberty, the first direct tax on the colonies, paying for the "protection" of the Redcoats from the Native Americans, Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions laying out the act's violations, threatening colonial self-government, intimidating tax collectors to resign, disseminating dissent for Stamp Act, boycotting British good, and refusing to pay for the products that needed stamps? Ask Ms. Poole for other possibilities.
What are 1775-1783?
Five Parts: He authored "Common Sense." He authored the "American Crisis. He authored the Declaration of Independence. He was the leader of the Green Mountain boys in seizing Fort Ticonderoga. He was an asset to the Patriots' crusade until he became a traitor.
Who are Thomas Paine x 2, Thomas Jefferson, Ethan Allen, and Benedict Arnold?