People who work together to achieve a common goal.
What are allies?
100
American navy captain who attacked and captured a British warship in the North Sea.
Who is John Paul Jones?
100
Approved
What is ratify?
200
A request that the king repeal the Intolerable Acts in exchange for an assurance of colonial loyalty to Britain.
What is the Olive Branch Petition
200
A pamphlet that explained why colonists should rebel against the British.
What is Common Sense?
200
Continental Army's 1777-1778 winter headquarters and sight of the low point for Washington's army.
What is Valley Forge?
200
Led Virginia frontier fighters in the Ohio Valley against the British.
What is George Rogers Clark?
200
The American Traitor.
Who is Benedict Arnold?
300
The battle outside Boston that proved that Americans could fight bravely and that the British would not be defeated easily.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
300
Preamble. Rights of the people. Wrongs committed by the British. Separation from Britain.
What are the main parts of the Declaration of Independence?
300
Patriot spy who was hanged.
Who is Nathan Hale?
300
Britain recognizes the United States as an independent nation with borders from the Atlantic to the Mississippi River and to Florida to the South. Florida is returned to Spain. America agrees to pay Loyalists for property lost in the war.
What are the terms of the Treaty of Paris?
400
The patriots were fighting on their home ground and were committed to the defense of their property and rights.
What are the advantages Patriots had as the war began?
400
Virginia representative who introduced the resolution for independence to the Continental Congress.
Who is Richard Henry Lee?
400
Marquis de Lafayette, Friedrich von Steuben, and Thaddeus Kosciusko.
Who are foreign soldiers who came to help the Colonies?
400
Ran farms and businesses during the war; became more confident and willing to speak out in support of liberty and equality.
Who are Women?
400
Sir Henry Clinton hoped that southern Loyalists would support the British.
What are the reasons why the South became the main battleground of the war in 1778?
500
The British had the advantage of numbers, training, arms and experience.
What are the advantages the British had as the war began?
500
The British sent troops to the colonies without the consent of colonial legislatures. Britain imposed taxes without the consent of the people. The king ignored petitions to correct injustices.
What are the arguments the Colonies used for declaring independence from Britain?
500
The battle in which ended the British threat to New England, boosted Patriot morale, and convinced France to become an ally of the United States.
What is Saratoga?
500
The reason why some African Americans joined the British?
What is freedom in exchange for serving the king?
500
The distance from the colonies made it difficult for Britain to transport and supply thousands of soldiers; Patriots' familiarity with their terrain; substantial help from Spain and France; good leadership by Washingtionl
What are the reasons why the Americans defeated the British in the Revolution?