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This army general became the first President of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
The first battles of the American Revolution took place in these cities.
What are Lexington and Concord?
This was the year that the Revolutionary war began.
What is 1776?
The Continental army fought in the war for this reason.
What is to win independence from Great Britain?
The British army was fighting for this purpose.
What is for Britain to keep control of the colonies?
He was the King of Great Britain when the war started.
Who was King George?
The treaty that ended the American revolutionary war was signed in this French city.
What is Paris?
This was the year that the Revolutionary war ended.
The continental army was made up mostly of these types of people.
What are volunteers?
True or False: The British Army had more money than the continental army.
What is True?
The American congress sent this man to France to get help for the continental army.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
The continental soldiers built a fort in this Pennsylvania city, but lost many soldiers to the bitterly cold winter.
What is Valley Forge?
Thanks to help from French soldiers, the continental army was able to defeat the British at this battle.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
The continental army used this method when fighting the British.
What is surprise or sneak attack?
The British army hired mercenaries from this country to help them fight the continental army.
What is Germany?
This British General surrendered at the Battle of Yorktown.
Who was General Cornwallis?
After the Battle of Long Island, the British took control of this major city.
What is New York?
General Washington sneaked his army across this river at night and surprised the German soldiers who were celebrating Christmas.
What is the Delaware river?
This is one one major problem the continental army faced.
What is "not having money for supplies and uniforms?"
This was one problem the British armies faced during the war.
What is soldiers and supplies had to travel a big distance to get from Great Britain to the colonies?
Who was James Armistead?
The battle of this city was a major turning point in the war because the continental army defeated the British troops.
What is Saratoga?
This treaty ended the war and gave the colonists a large amount of new land to explore.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
The British army was able to recruit these people to join their side of the fight (name one group).
Who are American Indians and African Americans?