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Preisinger History 7
History 7 Preisinger
Question | Answer |
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King George III | monarch of Great Britain during Revolutionary War |
Nathan Hale | 1st American spy |
Minuteman | local militia who are ready at a moments notice |
George Washington | Commander and Chief of the Continental Army |
What happened at the Battle of Yorktown? | British soldiers led by Cornwallis had to surrender ending the Revolutionary War |
loyalists | colonists who fought against the British |
Deborah Sampson | women dressed like a man to fight the war. two bullets to her thigh, got sick at the end of the war and was found out and was praised for her actions |
conditions at Valley Forge | very cold, not enough clothes, many with no shoes, disease, no food |
Turning point of Revolutionary War | Battle of Saratoga |
Who was "Swamp Fox"? | Francis Marion |
Prussian Officer who trained the Continental Army | Baron Friedrich von Stueben |
National Army of the 13 Colonies | Continental Army |
Treaty that Great Britain recognized the US independence | Treaty of Paris |
What commander gave the Patriots $200,000 of his own money? | Marquis de Lafayette |
How many colonies sent delegates to the First Continental Congress? | 12 All but Georgia |
German soldiers that fought for pay that General Washington attacked in Trenton, NJ on Christmas | Hessians |
Another name for Loyalists | Torries |
47 page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine encouraging war | Common Sense |
What were some ways the Americans broke the "rules of war"? | They shot at officers, They used Guerrilla Warfare, They had new guns... |
Who helped the Americans at the Battle of Yorktown? | The French |