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The Revolution
The Americain Revolution's major battles and people
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Moral | a person's willingness to fight |
| tory | a colonist still loyal to the crown |
| mercenary | a person paid to fight |
| guerilla warfare | hit and run |
| ally | a person, group, or nation that sides with you |
| neutral | a person, group, or nation that sides with no one |
| writer of The American Crisis | Thomas Paine |
| Hessian | a German mercianary |
| Seige | when an army surrounds a fortified position |
| George Washington | Head Commander of the Americain army |
| militia | an army of the people |
| blockade | isolating or sorrounding a port or a harbor preventing enemy troops or ships from leaving |
| Benidict Arnold | Traitor |
| Benjamin Franklin | famous poloticain |
| Ethan Allen | Leader of green mountin boys |
| MarQuis de Lafayette | French Commander under George Washinton |
| Lord Cornwallis | Surrendered at Yorktown |
| Nathan Hale | an American spy |
| Valley Forge | Winter residece of the Continental Army |
| Bunker Hill | The British won with high causulties |
| Ticonderoga | Americans captured it in the middle of the night no deaths |
| Saratoga | Major turning point convinced the French to join |
| Yorktown | Final battle of the Revolution |
| Treaty of Paris | The treaty that ended the war |
| Trenton | major vitory for washington saved the revolution |
| Long Island | Victory for the British |
| What problems did the Continental Army have to overcome throughtout the war? | Not enough money or supplies |
| What strategies did the Continential Army use throughtout the war? | guerilla warfare |
| What American advantages and British disadvantages contributed to an American victory? | The British had long supplies (across the ocean) and the Americans had home field advantage |