This man was wounded at the Battle of Saratoga and later joined the British side in exchange for money.
Benedict Arnold
100
This document signed in 1783 ended the Revolutionary War freeing the colonies from Britain.
Treaty of Paris
100
This was the first battle of the Revolutionary War where the "Shot Heard Round the World" was. The British won this battle.
Battle of Lexington
100
This was the last major battle of the Revolutionary War which saw the British surrender in Virginia in 1781.
Battle of Yorktown
200
This man volunteered to sneak into the British camp to gather military plans for George Washington.
Nathan Hale
200
This man surrendered to the Continental army at Yorktown which lost the Revolutionary War for the British.
General Cornwallis
200
This document written before the Declaration of Independence was written in language so that the common person could understand it, blamed King George III for problems, and demanded independence from Britain.
Common Sense
200
This battle was the second battle of the Revolutionary War where Patriots came from nearby towns using frontier fighting which drove the British back to Boston
Battle of Concord
200
This was British General John Burgoyne's strategy in 1777 that was stopped by the Patriots at Saratoga.
move South along Lake Champlain and the Hudson River in order to cut the colonies in two to end the war
300
Soldiers hired by a country that are paid to fight for another country.
mercenaries
300
This man went to Fort Ticonderoga to get the captured cannons and had them taken back to Boston on sleds.
Henry Knox
300
How did the British view the signers of the Declaration of Independence?
as traitors
300
This battle saw George Washington and his Continental army crossing the freezing Delaware River and launching a surprise attack on a group of German mercenaries.
Battle of Trenton
300
Why was the Battle of Saratoga so important to the Patriots?
It was the turning point (Patriots started winning battles and the British started losing battles) and/or the French joined the Patriots
400
This Southern militia leader led surprise attacks on the British from the swamps and was nicknamed the Swamp Fox.
Francis Marion
400
This woman dressed in men's clothes and joined the Continental army. She fought in some battles before she was recognized as a women and received an honorable discharge from the army.
Deborah Sampson
400
According to Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, what 3 things are people born with?
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
400
This battle started when George Rogers Clark and his 170 men militia went through freezing cold swamps to attack the British in the Ohio River Valley.
Battle at Fort Vincennes
400
Give 4 problems faced by the Continental army at Valley Forge.
disease, cold, hunger, cramped tents, lack of clothes(shoes)
500
Who were the Vermont soldiers that attacked and captured Fort Ticonderoga seizing the British cannons, and who was the leader of this group of soldiers?
Green Mountain Boys and Ethan Allen
500
This woman was a Northern slave (later was freed) who published a book of poems and gave support for the Patriots fight for independence. This important man requested to see her after she wrote a poem about him.
Phillis Wheatley and George Washington
500
In the third section of the Declaration of Independence, what did Jefferson point out regarding King George III and England?
unfair things like taxes
500
Why were the Patriots not able to drive the British out of Boston at the Battle of Bunker Hill?
The British overtook the earth and log fort on the third attempt sending the Patriots retreating.
500
Name two reasons the British started attacking the Patriots in the South and what city the British captured in Georgia.
couldn't defeat the Continental army in the North, hoped to get loyalist support there, and the city was Savannah