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Vocabulary
People
Events
Places
Odds/Ends
100
Mercenaries
What hired soldiers who fight for money?
100
Mary McCauley AKA-Molly Pitcher
Who was the person that carried water to to American Soldiers?
100
The negotiation of the Treaty of Paris
Ben Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay participated in this event In France?
100
Savannah and Charles Town
What was the name of the ports British General Henry Clintons captured in the south?
100
1. Fought on their own land, 2. Knew the local terrain, 3. It was a peoples war.
What were three advantages that the Americans had during the Revolutionary War.
200
inflation
What is it when it takes more and more money to buy the same amount of goods something
200
Marquis de Lafayette
Who was the Frenchman that became an aid to Washington?
200
Guerrilla Warfare
What were the hit and run tactics used by Francis Marion on others against the British?
200
Yorktown
Where did General Cornwallis camp his troops, and wait for supplies and orders from General Clinton?
200
Loyalists.
What was the name of the group that was did not want separate from The British?
300
DOUBLE POINTS: blockade
What is it when one side prevents supplies or reinforcements from reaching an army/people
300
John Paul Jones
Who was the Captain of the "Bonhomme Richard" that said, "I have not yet begun to fight."
300
General Cornwallis's army moves into Virginia.
What caused Thomas Jefferson to ride off in such a hurry along with the Virginia Legislature?
300
Mount Vernon, Virginia
Where did George Washington hope to retire from public life and settel down with his wife Martha?
300
Saratoga
What was the turning point of the war?
400
privateers
What is a privately owned merchant ship with it's own weapons?
400
General Charles Cornwallis
Who was the British General that was surrounded on a Peninsula in Virginia [Yorktown] and eventually surrendered?
400
DOUBLE POINTS: Washington Crosses the Delaware River to surprise the Hessians.
What event took place on Christmas night of 1776?
400
Ohio River
What river did George Rogers Clark and his band of 175 men sail down to attack the Native Americans in the West?
400
DOUBLE POINTS: Deserted/Desertion
What is leaving the military without permission?
500
Strategy
What is a plan of action in battle called?
500
Francois di Grasse
Who was the French Admiral that decided to sail to Yorktown instead of New York?
500
Raise and army to attack Mobile, Pensacola, and loaned them thousands of dollars.
Bernardo de Galvez, Spanish Governor of Louisiana, did these to aid the Americans?
500
South Carolina
Colony that Francis Marion, The Swamp Fox, and his militia operated and kept the British army offguard?
500
Friedrich von Steuben
What is the Prussian officer that came to help Washington drill the troops at Valley Forge?