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Chapter 4 Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| American Lieutenant who won the Battles of Vincennes and Kaskaskia in the West. | George Rogers Clark |
| October 1780 battle in South Carolina where the Over The Mountain Men “Patriots” won a brutal battle over Loyalist Troops. | Kings Mountain |
| French Aristocrat who provided military expertise to Washington and the Continental Army. | Lafayette |
| He was defeated at the Battle of Saratoga, N.Y. | John Burgoyne |
| He came from Prussia to train Patriots in drilling and organizing their troops. | Von Steuben |
| This was a victory for Washington and a surprise for his army in cold December 1776. | Trenton |
| Turning point of the Revolutionary War because France sent help to America. | Saratoga |
| He wrote Common Sense and The American Crisis. | Thomas Paine |
| British General who lost many soldiers at Bunker Hill. | William Howe |
| German soldiers who were paid to fight for the British. | Hessians |
| The site of Cornwallis’s surrender to Washington. | Yorktown, VA |
| Freedoms that cannot be taken away by the Government. | Natural Rights |
| A law that required colonists to pay a tax on printed materials. | Stamp Act |
| This ended the Revolutionary War. | Treaty of Paris of 1783 |
| Why did the British pass the Intolerable Acts? | Punish MA for the Tea Party |
| Colonial merchants signed non-importation agreements because of ... | Taxation without Representation |
| How did the American Revolution affect other Countries? | Other Republican groups fought to overthrow Aristocratic Government. |
| American diplomat who negotiated alliance with France. | Ben Franklin |
| Those who did not want Independence from the British. | Loyalists |
| First shot of this war was fired here. | Lexington |
| Commander of the Continental Army. | George Washington |
| Virginia representative who argued for more radical opposition to Parliament. | Patrick Henry |
| Groups that formed after the Boston Massacre to promote colonial unity and Inform the other colonies. | Committee of Correspondence |
| Meeting at which colonial delegates formed plans to boycott all British goods. | First Continental Congress |
| He led the Sons of Liberty. | Sam Adams |