Vocabulary
Important People
Name that Battle
Cause and Effect
The Written Word
100
This vocabulary word is the shutting of a port to keep people or supplies from moving in or out.
What is blockade?
100
This man was the most important general for the Americans.
Who is George Washington?
100
This battle essentially ended major British campaigns in the colonies.
What is the Battle at Yorktown?
100
This event caused the KGIII (King George III) to send over 20,000 more troops in 1775.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
100
Name the document and its meaning: "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."
What is the Declaration of Independence? What is the declaration of natural rights--life, liberty (freedom), and pursuit of happiness (property)?
200
This vocabulary word means troops for hire.
What are mercenaries?
200
This important colonial general sold out his troops at West Point and joined sides with the British.
Who is Benedict Arnold?
200
These battles led to the capture and defeat of most of the Hessians.
What is Trenton/Princeton?
200
Victory at this battle led the French to provide naval and military support to the Americans.
What is the Battle at Saratoga?
200
Name this document and its meaning: "Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. 'Tis time to part."
What is Thomas Paine's Common Sense and he is stating that the abuses by the British warrant separation. It is common sense that the colonies should separate from the British.
300
This vocabulary word means someone who intentionally leaves their military post. Another way to describe that person would be to say they are AWOL.
What is a deserter?
300
This general led the Green Mountain Boys to capture Ticonderoga.
Who is Ethan Allen?
300
This battle was the turning point in the war for the Americans.
What is the Battle at Saratoga?
300
This document created such a response in the colonies that it pushed the Second Continental Congress to pen the Declaration of Independence.
What is Common Sense by Thomas Paine?
300
This document stated that the colonies were Independent with borders running from the Great Lakes to Florida, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
400
This vocabulary word describes a fighting technique that uses the hit-and-run tactics.
What is guerrilla?
400
This Scottish naval commander led the Continental Navy during the American Revolution.
Who is John Paul Jones?
400
This long winter pushed many men to desert Washington and created low morale. Many soldiers barely survived with only a thin blanket and no shoes.
What is the Winter at Valley Forge?
400
This event was the cause of women's increased involvement in the American Revolution.
What is the Winter at Valley Forge?
400
Name the document and its meaning: This document states: "And I do hereby further declare all indentured Servants, Negroes, or others, (appertaining to Rebels) free, that are able and willing to bear Arms, they joining his Majesty's Troops, as soon as may be, for the more speedily reducing this Colony to a proper Sense of their Duty, to his Majesty's Crown and Dignity."
What is the Dunmore Proclamation and it offered freedom to any slave who was willing to fight on the British side?
500
This vocabulary word is an event in which an army surrounds and blockades an enemy position in an attempt to capture it.
What is a siege?
500
This important general led colonial troops to the "West" in the Ohio River Valley.
Who is George Rogers Clark?
500
In this battle General Morgan used a clever tactic to trick the British--he ordered the front line to retreat and the British charged forward into Morgan's second line. This success led the Americans to the end of the war.
What is the Battle of Cowpens?
500
This major mistake and subsequent American military maneuvers led to the surrender of British troops at Yorktown.
What is Cornwallis refusing to go to NY; GW and Lafayette trap Cornwallis on the peninsula; and De Grasse blockades Chesapeake Bay; a siege ensues and the British surrender?
500
Name this document: "We therefore beseech your Majesty, that your royal authority and influence may be graciously interposed to procure us releif [sic] from our afflicting fears and jealousies occasioned by the system before mentioned, and to settle peace through every part of your dominions..."
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
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