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Chapter 6 Unit 3
Mr.Parks on 8-3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Taking neither side | Neutral |
| Hired soldiers, to fight | Mercenaries |
| The Americans called mercenaries _________ after a region in Germany where most of them lived | Hessians |
| Enlist, soldiers | Recruit |
| Of Pennslyvania accompanied her husband when he joined the continental army, after he died in battle she took his place | Corbin |
| Soldiers called her molly of the pitcher cuz she carried water to the soldiers | Pitcher |
| Of Massachusetts watched her brothers/friends go off to war she disguised heerself as a boy and enlisted | Sampson |
| British commander hoped that the size of his army would convince the patriots to give up | Howe |
| In August the 2 sides clashed outnumbered and outmaneuvered the continental army suffered a serious defeat at the hands of the British | Battle of Long Island |
| Spyed on the British as a schoolteacher sais "I only regret that I had but one life to lose for my country" | Hale |
| Afericans who fought at Concord | Hayes and Salem |
| The British settled in these 2 N.Jersey cities the on Christmas 1776 Washington went over to one of the cities and captured Hessians the they went to the other city and drove away the British | Trenton and Princeton |
| American soldiers halted St.Leger's advance at Fort Stanwit supply base at Bennington, Vermont their uniform were easy targets and were attacked by a militia group called _____ | Green Mountain Boys |
| Having lost some of his army/supplies Burgoyne reteated to _________ | Saratoga |
| The Americans who blocked the path to the south for Buroyne were under the command of____ | Gates |
| Helped with the continental army for Spain at his urging Spain, Cuba, and Mexico sent financial aid | Miralles |
| Took more and more money to buy the same amount of goods | Inflation |
| Wrote an essay about woman's mind are as good as men's | Murray |
| Husband is John Adams also championed woman's interests | Adams |
| Mohawk chief led attacks in southwest New York and North Pennslyvania | Brant |
| Commanded Detriot the main British base in the west nickname hair buyer | Hamiltan |
| A clonist in Virginia militia set out to end British attacks on west settlers; seized British post at Kaskaskia | Clark |
| Militia led by Clark captured this British town after they seized post Kaskaskia | Vincennes |
| Prevented supplies and reinorcenemts form reaching the Continental army | Blockade |
| Privately owned merchant ships equipped with weapons | Privateers |
| American navel officer; won the battle between the two ships Bonhomme Richard > Serapis | Jones |
| South Carolina town marked worst American defeat of the war | Charles Town |
| Command of British forces in the south | Cornwallis |
| 2 armies met here British won but they found out they couldn't control the area | Camden |
| Hit and run technique used in fighting a war; fighting by small bands of warriors using tactics like ambush | Guerrilla Warface |
| Guerrilla leader; operated out of swamps of east South Carolina; Nickname Swamp Fox | Marion |
| Spanish governor of Louisana raised an army | G`alvez |
| Washington set up camp here about 20 miles west of the British | Valley Forge |
| Left without permission | Deserted |
| French nobleman who spent the winter at Valley Forge; filled with enthusiasm for the ideas expressed in the Declaration of Independence | Lafayette |
| Army officer from Germany; helped with the continental army by drilling the patriot troops | Von Steuben |
| British defended an outpost against the attack of Patriot sharpeshooters; patriots forced British to retreat | Kings Mountain |
| In 1780 replaced Gates as commander of the continental forces in the south | Greene |
| Greenes split his army in 2 and 1 section defeated British at __________ South Carolina | Cowpens |
| Greene reunited his forces to meet Cornwallis's at ___________ Greene's army was forced to retreat | Guilford Courthouse |
| French warships appeared in the waters of _________ Rhode Island; ship carried soldiers | Newport |
| Led the French soldiers who appeared at Newport, R.I. | Rochambeau |
| British army commanded by Cornwallis was camped in ________ Virginia | Yorktown |
| French navel commander heading toward Chesapeake Bay instead of New York | De Grasse |
| Americans and French began a tremendous bombardment; British supplies began running low and many soldiers were wounded/sick. So on 10-19 Cornwallis surrendered | Battle of Yorktown |
| Two sides sent delegates to Paris to work out a treaty _________________ represented the U.S. | Jay, Franklin, and Adams |
| Approved | Ratified |
| Treaty of Paris that said Britain reconginzed US as a nation; British removed their soldiers; British said we could fish in Canada and we said they could collect their debts and property taken from the loyalists was returned | Treaty of Paris |
| Suprise attack | Ambush |
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