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Valley Forge
Vocabulary
The Battles
Beginning the War
100
A plan for fighting a war or battle.
What is a Strategy
100
A colonist who chose to fight for independence from Britain
What is a Patriot
100
Slang for a British Soldier
What is a Redcoat
100
Local militia ready to fight at a minute's notice
What is a Minuteman
100
Colonists sided with the King instead of the rebels.
What are Loyalists
200
What two ways did France help us win the war?
Military and Financial Aid
200
This Prussian helped train the colonial soldiers and helped turn them into a professional army.
Who was Baron Von Steuben
200
A response to something.
What is a Reaction
200
This battle gave the colonists hope after a bad first year of fighting.
What is the Battle of Trenton
200
Which came first: The Colonists and British fight battles at Lexington and Concord Paul Revere warns the colonial militias that the British are coming.
Paul Revere warns the colonial militias
300
What did Common Sense do for the patriot cause?
It united the Colonists to fight for freedom
300
The soldiers learned how to use this while at Valley Forge and it helped them win the war.
What is a bayonet
300
The overthrow of a government by the citizens
What is a Revolution
300
This battle happened almost by mistake when an attachment of British soldiers went to capture colonial leaders and weapons stores It started the Revolutionary War
What the Battle of Lexington and Concord.
300
Who won the first half of the war?
The British
400
Why were the British taxing the colonists and how did the colonists react?
To pay for their debts from the French and Indian War and the Colonists started protesting and thinking about independence from Britain.
400
What were the continental soldiers short on while at Valley Forge?
What are Food Clothing Shelter
400
Soldiers who fight for pay, not loyalty
What are Mercenaries
400
In this battle the Colonists used both conventional warfare and guerrilla warfare to beat the British. This victory proved to the French and Spanish that the colonists were legitimate enough to support against the British.
What was the Battle of Saratoga
400
According to Thomas Paine who should form governments and why?
The people—for everyone’s good
500
To whom was the Declaration of Independence written to and what was its purpose?
King George—to declare independence
500
Who won the American Revolution?
The Colonists/Americans
500
Hit and run tactics used to break up supply lines
What is Guerrilla Warfare
500
During this battle Washington cornered the largest British army on a peninsula forcing it to surrender. It is known as the end of the Revolutionary War
What is the Battle of Yorktown
500
What was the purpose of the Intolerable Acts and how did the colonists react?
To punish the Colonists for the Boston Tea Party and the colonists flipped out.