Declaration of Independence
Other people during the Revolutionary War
Battles
Articles of Confederation
People in the Revolutionary War
100
Declares independence and states the reasons in grievances
What is the declaration
100
Who carried water to soldiers amidst tumult?
Who is Molly Pitcher
100
This battle resulted in a retreat on the American side and the disappointing loss of the major city of New York. After this battle, only 8,000 men remained in the army.
What is the battle of New York?
100
When citizens rule through elected representatives
What is a republic?
100
Author of Common Sense, a pamphlet declaring the needs and benefits of declaring independence
Who is Thomas Paine?
200
People still loyal to the British crown
What are Loyalists?
200
When George Washington led his army amidst the ice-filled Delaware River in the middle of a storm and executed a surprise attack on the Hessians
What is the Battle of Trenton?
200
States
Who had the supreme power?
200
French general who played a huge role in the Battle of Yorktown and other battles and helped win the Revolutionary War
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
300
On May 10,1775
When was the Second Continental Congress formed
300
Smuggled supplies from Europe
What did The Americans do to get supplies when they couldn't get any in America?
300
General Howe, a British general, easily seizes the capital by sailing from New York to the Chesapeake Bay. Washington’s army attempts to block them from entering Philadelphia, but the British are unfazed, and they march directly into Philadelphia, a home for many Loyalists.
What is the Battle of Philadelphia
300
How would they divide up the voting? By population or by state?
What is the population representation question?
300
Major British General from the battles of Savannah and Charlestown to the Battle of Yorktown
Who is General Cornwallis?
400
Protest or discontent and reasons for independence
What are grievances?
400
Fall in the value of money due to abundance
What is inflation?
400
General Johnny Burgoyne, a British general close to General Howe, set out to isolate New England from the rest of the colonies by leading an army down a route of lakes where he would meet up with Howe’s troops. Howe had to lug a profusion of things while taking 3,000 mercenaries, 4,000 redcoats, and 1,000 Mohawk to the meeting place. There, Burgoyne found out that Howe would never come and was surrendered by Horatio Gates’ (a popular general appointed by the Continental Congress to command the Northern Department of the Continental Army) army. Then, Burgoyne had to surrender his battered army to Gates.
What is the Battle for Saratoga
400
State constitutions
How did each state become a state?
400
Ex-Prussian officer who pumped obedience into Americans and taught them how to use bayonets
Who is Friedrich Von Steuben?
500
On July 2nd, 1776
When was it approved?
500
Specie
What was the army paid in?
500
When the French and the Americans had 17,000 men and surrounded Cornwallis in Yorktown and bombarded him for three weeks. On October 17,1781, the British surrender.
What is the Battle of Yorktown
500
When a state government is supreme in some matters, while a national government is supreme in other matters.
What is a confederation?
500
Major American General that contributed to most of the battles of the Revolutionary War
Who is George Washington?
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