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American Revolution
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| St. Leger's route | Down the Mohawk Valley, stopped at Oriskany |
| Howe (proposed) | Up the Hudson to Albany |
| Howe (actual) | By sea to Philadelphia |
| Albany | Target of all 3 British armies...would have cut off New England |
| Boston Massacre | March, 1770-5 Bostonians shot by British soldiers |
| Boston Tea Party | To protest taxation without representation, Son of Liberty throw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor |
| Lexington and Concord | First battles of the Amerian Revolution |
| Battle of Saratoga | Turning point of Revolution. |
| Valley Forge | Winter of 1777-1778, Washington's camp outside of Philadelphia |
| West Point | Fort involved in Benedict Arnold's treason plot, guarded chain across the Hudson |
| Yorktown | Final battle of the Revolution. British surrender to Washington and the French |
| Declaration of Independence | Jefferson's justification for breaking away from Great Britain |
| Sam Adams | Founder of the Sons of Liberty |
| Benedict Arnold | American hero turned traitor...tried to sell Fort West Point to the British |
| John Burgoyne | Surrendered to "Granny" Gates at Saratoga (turning point) |
| Patrick Henry | Give me Liberty or Give me Death! |
| Hessians | German mercenaries who fought for the British |
| Thomas Jefferson | main author of the Declaration |
| Loyalist (Tory) | Colonists who stayed loyal to England during the Revolution |
| Thomas Paine | Author of Common Sense and the Crisis |
| Baron von Steuben | Prussian drillmaster who trained Washington's army at Valley Forge |
| George Washington | Commander in Chief of the Continental Army |
| Boycott | to refuse to buy goods to force a change |
| Embargo | To refuse to trade with other countries |
| Militia | Part-time, partly trained army |
| Tariff | A tax on imported goods |
| Treason | the act of going against your country |
| Treaty of 1783 | treaty that ended the American Revolution...gave America independence from Great Britain |
| Benjamin Franklin | Secured French assistance during the Revolution |
| James Otis | Taxation without representation |
| Burgoyne | Down Lake Champlain toward Albany |
| Philadelphia | the city where the Declaration of Independence was signed by the Second Continental Congress. |
| John Hancock | First to sign the Declaration of Independence |
| Thomas Paine | Author of Common Sense. Inspired colonists for Independence |
| Nathan Hale | American spy who said, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." |
| Trenton | On Christmas night, 1776, Washington led 2,400 men across the Delaware River to attack the drunken Hessians who were sleeping. The Americans killed 30 of the enemy and took 918 captives and 6 Hessian cannons. |
| Marquis de Lafayette | French soldier who joined General Washington's staff and became a general in the Continental Army. |
| General William Howe | British commander; captured Philadelphia |
| Colonel Barry St. Leger | commanded a smaller British force that came in from the west by way of Lake Ontario and the Mohawk Valley |
| Francis Marion | South Carolina militia leader nicknamed the "Swamp Fox" for his hit-and-run attacks on the British during the American Revolution. |
| John Paul Jones | American naval commander in the American Revolution (1747-1792) said " I have not yet begun to fight." |
| Jane McCrea | A loyalist woman who was scalped. This united the Americans against the British and their Native allies. |
| Mississippi River | The western boundary of the United States established in the Treaty of Paris |
| Fort Niagara | British fort in Western New York |
| Chief Joseph Brant | Pro-British Mohawk leader that devastated New York and Pennsylvania frontiers in 1778. |
| General Charles Lord Cornwallis | British General who was forced to surrender in last battle of American Revolution (Yorktown) |
| Admiral Comte de Grasse | French navy admiral - battle of Yorktown |
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