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Amer. Rev. Part 2
Ame. Revolution
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Loyalists | Those who were still loyal to the king and supported the monarch |
| Patriots | Those who wanted independence from the Kind of England |
| Battle of Trenton | Christmas 1776 |
| Battle of Princeton | January 3, 1777 |
| Crossing the Delaware | 45 minutes |
| 900 Hessian soldiers taken prisoner | From Pennsylvania into New Jersey |
| Led by George Washington | Drove British out of New Jersey |
| Took guns and ammunition | Soldiers didn't expect an attack |
| Battle of Saratoga | British General Burgoyne defeated |
| October 17, 1777 | After this victory the French supported the Americans |
| Valley Forge | Winter of 1777 |
| Baron Friedrich von Steuben | Marquis de Lafayette |
| Provided military training | Provided financial support for supplies |
| Battle of Yorktown | October 20,1781 |
| British General Charles Cornwallis | American General Nathanael Greene |
| Cornwallis's sword | This object was accepted upon surrender at Yorktown |
| The World Turned Upside Down | This song was played at the surrender ceremony |
| Treaty of Paris 1783 | Last major battle |
| England has to recognize the US a an independent nation | England gave up all land claims in N. America |
| US agreed to return all rights and property taken from Loyalists during the war. | Impact of Revolution |
| 80,000 Loyalist returned to England | Europeans wanted to created democracies - French Revolution |