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Misc Quiz Questions
100
The state Yorktown resides in.
What is Virginia?
100
Washington’s military strategy after 1776.
What is a defensive strategy
100
Weakness(es) of the Continental army at the start of the war?
What is the lack of troops or supplies?
100
Strength(s) of the British troops?
What is superior numbers and/or training
- Also accept what is well supplied
100
Provisions in the Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary War. There are three. Name at least one
What is:
1. Recognized American independence
2. Britain gave up its claims to all lands East of the Mississippi River, from Canada to Florida
3. United States agreed to return all land and property taken from Loyalists during the war.
200
Army with the most soldiers at Yorktown.
What is Washington's or the American army?
200
Cause of the American defeat in Brooklyn, New York, in August 1776.
What is inexperienced troops?
200
Weakness(es) of the British troops at the beginning of the war.
What is lack of motivation and communication or good leadership
200
Strength(s) of the American troops
What is well lead and/or motivated
- Also accept patriotic
200
Group that prevented a British victory in the South?
What is Guerillas?
300
How the British were defeated at Yorktown.
What is a trap, or siege from all sides.
300
Effect of African Americans helping the cause of independence.
What is some states began to abolish slavery?
300
The leader of Great Britain
Who is King George III?
300
The defacto leader of the Americans or general of the Continental Army
Who is George Washington
300
A result of the American victories at Trenton and Princeton.
What is confidence that the Americans could defeat the British Army in battle.
400
Prevented the British from being rescued by the British navy.
What is the French Navy?
400
Reason African Americans joined the Continental army.
What is hope independence would lead to the end of slavery?
400
British weakness caused by distance.
What is communication or supplies?
400
European country most known for support of the American cause.
What is France
400
Reasons British people did not support the war?
What is the cost of the war and/or lack of motivation to fight distant countrymen?
500
The colonial region Yorktown took place in.
What is the Southern Colonies?
500
Read the quotation, which General Washington read to his soldiers. "The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country." A word that describes “summer soldier and sunshine patriot”
What is Quitter?
500
British people's support of the war lacked this.
What is motivation or Patriotism?
500
American's show of support for the war known as
What is patriotism?
500
Effect of the American victory at Saratoga
What is more help from the French