Strengths
Americans believed in the cause they were fighting for.
What is Patriotism?
The British struggled to travel through the American landscape.
What is the British had little knowledge of the land.
Independence is a prize worth fighting for.
What is Washington reads the Declaration of Independence?
German mercenaries that fought for the British.
What is a Hessian?
The battle of Saratoga.
What is the battle that convinced the French to join as allies to the Americans?
The British soldiers were better paid and fed
What is the British had better supplies?
Americans often ran from big open battles.
What is the Americans were untrained and inexperienced?
Washington fought in traditional European warfare.
Why did Washington lose in New York?
A pamphlet that encouraged Americans to fight for Independence even when times are hard.
What is Thomas Paine's The Crisis?
General William Howe defied orders to advance North and took the capital of the rebels.
What is the British taking Philadelphia?
The British launched the largest naval invasion until D-Day.
What is a larger army?
The Colonists often lacked in supplies and funding.
What is the Continental Congress lacked the power to tax and raise funding?
Washington's army is growing smaller.
What is the terms of enlistments are running out?
What is a sunshine patriot/summer soldier?
Valley Forge
What is the place where Washington spent the winter of 1777/78 after Saratoga?
The Americans can better plan positioning of battles.
What is fighting in their home land?
The British went through several generals during the American Revolution.
What is the British had poor leadership.
British fought in lines, on open fields, and during good weather.
What is gentleman/polite warfare?
The two cities where Washington used his new strategy to boost the moral of his soldiers.
What is the battles at Trenton and Princeton?
The biggest way France supported the American Revolution
What is the French Navy?
The British have fought and won in 5 continents.
What is the British are more experienced?
British struggled to pay for war costs.
What is the British could not convince taxpayers of the importance of the war?
What is they were unsure if the Declaration of Independence would include freedom/rights for them?
What is Washington's new strategy after the loss at New York?
The two people from foreign countries who helped the Continental Army.
What is Baron Friedrich Von Steuben and Marquis de Lafayette?