History-War for Independence ST.1
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- Who led the Green Mountain Boys to capture Fort Ticonderoga.
- Ethan Allen
- He and his army were captured at Saratoga.
- "Gentleman Johnny" Burgoyne
- Who won a brilliant victory at Trenton after crossing the ice-filled Delaware River?
- George Washington
- American patriot, hung as a spy, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country"
- Nathan Hale
- Patriot turned traitor.
- Benedict Arnold
- Captured British forts in the Northwest Territory.
- George Rogers Clark
- Drilled the American army at Valley Forge.
- Baron von Stuben
- French general who fought with Washington.
- General Rochambeau
- America's representative in France
- Benjamin Franklin
- British General, lost his army at Yorkshire
- General Cornwallis
- American general who freed the south by exhausting the British
- Nathanael Greene
- Captured by the Americans while carrying messages between a traitor and the British.
- John Andre
- America's ally in the Revolutionary War_____.
- France
- Name the first and last battles of the Revolutionary war:
- First: Lexington Last: Yorktown
- The name for Americans loyal to Britain.
- Tories
- The cannons used to drive the British out of Boston came from this fort____.
- Ticonderoga
- The Americans in New York captured an entire army here after two victories at Freedman's Farm.
- Saratoga
- Place of suffering for the American army in the winter of 1777-1778
- Valley Forge
- German soldiers hired to fight for the British
- Hessians
- Congress that became the first government for the United States
- Second Continental Congress
- The capital of the United States during the Revolution
- Philadelphia
- British allies who attacked Americans on the frontier
- Indians
- T or F The British government had more money than the Americans during the war.
- True
- T or F British soldiers could get their orders from British quickly and easily during the war
- False
- T or F The British army captured most of the American Congress when it took the nation's capital in 1777
- False
- T or F American gained an important ally in Europe after the Battle of Camden
- False
- T or F The Treaty of Paris gave the United States only the land east of the Appalachian Mountains
- False
- T or F Americans promised to pay their debts to the British in the Treaty of Paris
- True
- T or F Nathanael Greene won almost all of his battles in the south
- False
- T or F The British had a large army and navy to use in the war
- True
- T or F The new government of the United States had the power to raise taxes only to pay for the war
- False
- T or F Many of the men in the American army agrees to stay after the victory at Trenton.
- True