Vocabulary
If I wanted to join the army or navy, I would need to do this action.
What is enlist?
The roster for the Americans wasn't great. It was mostly made up of these unpaid helpers.
What are volunteers?
Among all the advantages the British Army had compared to the Continental Army, this one was the biggest...
What is the size of their army?
This phrase means to overthrow one government and replace it with another. There's a pretty big one that happened in America...
What is a revolution?
The Battle of Saratoga is commonly seen as a battle that changed the momentum of the war. These changes in momentum are usually called something else.
What is a turning point?
An example of this kind of tactic was George Washington crossing the Delaware River.
What is a surprise attack?
This group of people fought for the British because Great Britain prevented the colonists from moving west into their land.
Who are the American Indians?
This battle is commonly known as the final battle of the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
Some soldiers fought for many honorable things, but these kinds of soldiers mainly just fought because a foreign army paid them to.
What is a mercenary?
Many allies of the Continental Army supplied these things to help out.
What are soldiers and warships?
The British Army could have used Amazon Prime delivery because this was the main reason it was difficult to replace troops and supplies.
What is being far away from home?
After this battle, France was impressed with the colonial victory and decided to help out.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Surprise attacks used by the Patriots were just one kind of these planned actions.
What is a tactic?
These special people did all sorts of things to help out the Continental Army, such as caring for troops, raising money, and even running businesses.
Who are women?
This was the main tactic used by the British Army.
What is face to face fighting?
As great as it would be, freeing slaves was not a part of this formal agreement to end the war.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
One of these was signed in Paris to end the war in 1783 as a formal agreement between all the nations that fought in the war.
What is a treaty?
One of the most famous forts in the American Revolution, George Washington and his troops spent the winter of 1777-1778 here.
What is Valley Forge?
Great Britain marched on this city and almost completely destroyed it, which would have been devastating for the Continentals since that was where Congress was meeting.
What is Philadelphia?
What is the Mississippi River?