Southern Colonies
The British hoped to find more support from the large ______ population in the South.
Loyalist/Torry
Southern Patriots used this strategy to fight the British.
Guerrilla Warfare.
General Washington sent this French commander to block the British from escaping Yorktown.
Lafayette
The British asked for this after lacking the money to pay for new armies.
Peace
Who did the British plan to free and enlist them as British soldiers?
Slaves
What is guerrilla warfare?
Hit and run tactics used by soldiers/fighters
General Washington and French commander _________ cut off other escape routes to surround the British at Yorktown
Comte de Rochambeau
This person played a key role in the negotiations in Paris, France.
Benjamin Franklin
The British destroyed these three things, and even killed soldiers trying to surrender as they made their way through the south.
Crops, animals, and property.
Francis Marion organized a group of guerrilla warfare soldiers nicknamed the ______________
Marion Brigade
Which navy controlled the Chesapeake Bay so British ships could not rescued trapped soldiers at Yorktown.
The French
America's borders are set east of this river.
Mississippi River.
This southern colony was captured by the British, and a new colonial government was put in place.
Georgia
Marion used_________ tactics to disrupt communication and supply lines.
Surprise
Over ____________ British soldiers were taken prisoner at Yorktown.
8,000
Spain keeps its territory west of the Mississippi River, and also had this territory south of Georgia returned to them.
Florida
The Patriots surrendered this city in South Carolina, plus handed over four ships and 5,400 prisoners.
Charleston
Marion was known as the __________ __________ by the British because he could not be caught.
Swamp Fox
Who surrendered at Yorktown to General Washington?
British General Cornwallis
Great Britain kept its territory of ____________, north of the United States.
Canada