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Continental Army
or
British Army
Colonist
or British
100
The overall plans for how to fight a war.
What are Strategies?
100
Soldiers who fight for anyone who will pay them.
What are mercenaries?
100
A sharp blade, like a sword, attached to the end of a rifle.
What is a bayonet?
100
This army was made up of volunteers - mostly farmers, merchants, and workers.
What is the Continental Army?
100
During the Revolutionary War, these people had the greater motivation to win.
Who were the Colonists?
200
The two cities which were the locations of the first battles of the Revolutionary War.
What are Lexington and Concord?
200

The name of the agreement written in 1783 at the end of the Revolutionary War between the United States and Great Britain.

What was the Treaty of Paris?

200

This vocabulary word means to agree to serve in the military.

What is enlist?

200

This general was appointed to lead the Continental Army.

Who is George Washington?

200
These people had an army that fought a "defensive war" with hit-and-run tactics.
Who were the Colonists?
300
The name given to people or countries fighting on the same side against a common enemy.
What are Allies?
300
The word given to describe people who freely perform a service.
What are volunteers?
300

This battle was a key victory for the colonists when Washington snuck his troops across a river on a cold winter night.

What is the Battle of Trenton?

300
This army included Native Americans, Loyalists, and mercenaries.
What is the British Army?
300
These people had to have supplies and reinforcements come from thousands of miles away.
Who were the British?
400
The word that describes someone who is trained, disciplined, and paid to do something.
What is Professional?
400
The last major battle of the Revolutionary War.
What is Yorktown?
400

This country pledged to support France after France declared war on the British.

Who is Spain?

400

At the start of the war, England had this number of warships.

What is 270?

400
This group had no local support in the colonies.
Who were the British?
500
The vocabulary word to describe the overthrowing of one government for another

What is revolution?

500
Specific ways of carrying out a plan, such as ways of fighting battles.
What are tactics?
500

One night in December 1776, Washington snuck his troops across this river to earn a key victory.

What is the Delaware River?

500

This British general surrendered to the Continental Army at Yorktown.

Who is General Cornwallis?

500

At the end of the war, England gave a great America a great amount of land. This included all the territory that was east of the ______ River.

What is Mississippi?

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