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Am His Test 3 part 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Tax on legal documents | Stamp Act |
| Act allowing British soldiers to live in civilian homes | Quartering Act |
| Barred all colonial settlements in lands west of the Appalachian Mountains | Proclamation of 1783 |
| Thomas Paine, an Englishman, wrote this pamphlet urging colonists to declare their independence from England | Common Sense |
| Tax on tea, lead (paint), glass | Townshend Act |
| Official end of American Revolution | Treaty of Paris |
| "Fighting Quaker;" leader of Southern Patriot forces | Nathanael Greene |
| American Army | Continental Army |
| Black slave; trusted by Lafayette to spy on the British for the Patriots | James Armistead |
| British General; led the attack on Bunker Hill | Gage |
| British General; surrendered at Yorktown but refused to do it personally | Cornwallis |
| Frenchmen; helped the Americans win the war | Lafayette |
| Men from Vermont that took the British-held fort in New York | Green Mountain Boys. |
| Nickname for the British troops; named for the color of their uniforms | Redcoats |
| Nickname given to Francis Marion of SC because of his guerrilla warfare | Swamp Fox |
| Opposed to War for Independence; loyal to king | Loyalists |
| Patriot General became a traitor and helped the British | Benedict Arnold |
| Prussian (German); helped Washington drill his soldiers into a disciplined army | Baron von Steuben |
| Prussian (German) soldiers paid by the British to fight the Patriots | Hessians |
| Supported the War for Independence | Patriots |
| Volunteer militia that could be ready to fight in a minute's notice | Minutemen |
| 1st major battle of the war; British victory | Bunker Hill |
| Bitter winter camp of the Continental army, 1777-1778 | Valley Forge |
| British Generals planned to divide the colonies along this line | Hudson River |
| British-held fort in New York that guarded the road between Canada & New York | Fort Ticonderoga |
| Patriot victory; ended the war | Yorktown |
| The "shot heard 'round the world;" 1st shots fired of the war | Lexington, Concord |
| Turning point in the war; convinced the French to help the Patriots defeat the British | Saratoga |