Name given to Americans who supported independence.
What is a Patriot?
100
What the British set up to prevent supplies and reinforcements from reaching the Continental Army.
What is a blockade?
100
What the Hessians were for the British in the American Revolution.
What are mercenaries?
100
The Patriots victory here brought new support for independence from Southerners because they wanted to see an end to the destruction of their homes.
What is Kings Mountain?
100
Guerrilla Leader also know as the "Swamp Fox".
Who is Francis Marion?
200
Name of George Washington's home that he returned to after the Revolutionary War.
What is Mount Vernon?
200
Name given to Americans who favored staying tied to the British?
What is a Loyalist?
200
A militia group that helped defeat General Burgoyne's army.
Who are the Green Mountain Boys?
200
What country announced its support the the United States after the American victory at Saratoga?
What is France?
200
Wrote "these are the times that try men's souls".
Who is Thomas Paine?
300
Woman who fought for the Americans after her husband was killed.
Who is Margaret Corbin?
300
This group of people mostly sided with the British because they felt they were less of a threat to Westward expansion.
Who are the Native Americans?
300
Name of the American capital that William Howe planned to capture.
What is Philadelphia?
300
Battle won on Christmas night 1776.
What is Trenton?
300
A lieutenant colonel in the Virginia militia who set out to end the British attacks on western settlers.
Who is George Rogers Clark?
400
Commander of the privateer Bonhomme Richard.
Who is John Paul Jones?
400
This Patriot victory convinced the British that the war was too costly to pursue.
What is the battle of Yorktown?
400
Where the Patriot forces endured a winter of suffering.
What is Valley Forge?
400
Where the Patriots suffered their worst defeat of the war.
What is Charleston, South Carolina or Charles Town?
400
Place of George Rogers Clark's victory that strengthened the American position in the West.
What is Vincennes?
500
This method of fighting was used by the Americans to keep the British from taking the Southern Colonies.
What is guerrilla warfare?
500
This British general enjoyed comfort in Philadelphia while Washington and his troops were enduring terrible conditions at Valley Forge in the winter of 1778.
Who is General Howe?
500
This treaty was ratified on September 3, 1783 that marked the end of the Revolutionary War.
What is Treaty of Paris?
500
In March 1781 Nathanael Greene's forces met Charles Cornwallis's army here.
What is Guilford Courthouse?
500
Name of a African American Patriot who fought at Concord.