Declaring Independence
They wrote the pamphlet Common Sense.
Who was Thomas Paine?
They wanted freedom from the British government.
Who were the Patriots?
The term that means to move away from an enemy.
What is retreat?
This is a plan of action.
What is a strategy?
This term means to give up.
What is surrender?
This is the crime of fighting against one's own leader or government.
What is treason?
Who were merchants?
What was the Battle of Trenton?
He was a traitor to the Continental Army, even though he helped defeat the British during the Battle of Saratoga.
Who was Benedict Arnold?
The name of the treaty that ended the American Revolution.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
These are freedoms protected by the government's laws.
What are rights?
This is the rise of prices of goods.
What is inflation?
This location was particularly rough on the Continental Army because of the snowy weather, lack of food/supplies, and diseases.
What was Valley Forge?
This was the final battle in the American Revolution where the British ended up surrendering to the Americans.
What was the Battle of Yorktown?
This country's navy helped the Americans defeat the British at Saratoga.
Who was France?
This was the longest part of the Declaration of Independence.
What were the complaints against King George III?
She dressed in men's clothing and fought in an important battle in the American Revolution.
Who was Deborah Sampson?
This man joined the Continental Army at Valley Forge and trained the soldiers how to properly march and use their weapons. What a game changer!
Who was Baron Friedrich Von Steuben?
This man was the General for the Continental Army in the Southern Colonies. He was successful by wearing out the British army.
Who was Nathanael Greene?
After the United States became independent, they had to worry about how to form a new/fair government as well as this.
What was to keep or abolish slavery?
The date that the colonists declared their independence verbally.
When was June 7, 1776?
The name of the money that congress printed in order to help with the inflation of war.
What were Continentals?
This man, a Polish engineer, helped the Continental Army build a wall out of logs and earth. The soldiers were able to use this barricade as protection to fight.
Who was Tadeusz Kosciuszko?
He was the British general fighting against the Continental Army in the South.
Who was General Charles Cornwallis?
The treaty gave the Americans these four things:
What is independence from Britain, parts of Canada, land west to the Mississippi River, and Spanish Florida.