He attacked British troops by surprise and retreated back into the swamps of Low Country. He gained his nickname from doing this.
Who was Francis Marion?
100
The partisan fighter known as "Swamp Fox"
Who is Francis Marion?
100
This battle was between the Patriots, led by Colonel Moultrie, and the British Navy. The Patriots defeated the British Navy.
What is the Battle of Sullivan's Island?
100
This was why King George III decided to make the colonists pay taxes.
What is to pay for the French-Indian War?
(military expenses)
100
The group that met to decide what to do about the king's new taxes and punishment.
What was the First Continental Congress?
200
He helped design Fort Moultrie and fought in the Battle of Sullivan's Island.
Who was William Jasper?
200
A person living in America who wants freedom from England
What is a Patriot?
200
These were the first two battles of the Revolutionary War.
What are the battles of Lexington and Concord?
200
This was the first tax that King George and Parliament made the colonists pay and it involved paper.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
These were three battles in South Carolina that resulted in victories for the Patriots.
What are the Battles of Sullivan's Island, King's Mountain, and Cowpens?
300
A person living in America who wanted to remain a part of England
What is a Loyalist or Tory?
300
He decided, along with Parliament, that the colonists should pay more taxes.
Who is King of England?
300
This battle was fought in October of 1780 and it involved backwoodsmen who came from Virginia and Tennessee to help. It lasted less than an hour.
What is the Battle of King's Mountain?
300
This is what some colonists in Massachusetts, called the Sons of Liberty, took part in to protest the tea tax.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
300
This is why the colonists were so unhappy with the taxes England wanted them to pay.
What is "taxation without representation"?
( or having to pay the taxes without a representative in Parliament to vote on the taxes)
400
He was a partisan fighter known as the "Gamecock".
Who is Thomas Sumter?
400
He was a partisan fighter known as "the Wizard Owl".
Who is Andrew Pickens?
400
This battle was fought in January of 1781 and the Patriots won by using the strategy of attacking and pulling back until the British were fooled into following them and then the Patriots surrounded them.
What is the Battle of Cowpens?
400
This is what the King and Parliament passed to punish the Massachusetts colony for the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
400
When the king closed Boston's harbor, SC sent these things to them.
What are rice and money?
500
He signed an agreement not to fight the British army. But when the British burned his farm, he rejoined the Continental Army and began fighting again.
Who was Andrew Pickens
500
This group of men that volunteered to fight in the war but were not paid soldiers.
Who were the militia?
500
The last major battle of SC. The Patriots were badly defeated in this battle.
What was the Battle of Eutaw Springs?
500
This is what the colonists began to do with some British goods, such as tea, to show that they were protesting the taxes. They refused to buy them anymore.
What is boycott?
500
Hit and run type military attacks that the Swamp Fox were known for.