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US History/Matching
US HIstory
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Groups of colonists fighting in the war | Militias |
| Groups of great delegates governed the colonies and decided things like printing money and setting up post offices. | The Second Continental Congress |
| Someone who supports the king and doesn't understand why people would want independence | Loyalist |
| Someone who doesn't like the king and wants independence | Patriots |
| Paid fighters in the army, did not fight with spirit or drive (Germany) | Hessians |
| American silversmith and Patriot in the American Revolution | Paul Revere |
| Lost control over the colonies when news of the Boston Tea Party reached England | King George III |
| General during the revolutionary war. Once a patriot but then became a traitor. | Benedict Arnold |
| Loyalist who was known as the Father of the American Revolution | Thomas Paine |
| Remarkable politican and lawyer, represented Massachusetts | John Adams |
| Principal Author of the Declaration of Independence. | Thomas Jefferson |
| One of the founding fathers, inventor, born in Massachusetts, printer by trade | Benjamin Franklin |
| General in the Army, first President of the United States | George Washington |
| French noble who believed the American cause. Came over and served as an aid to General Washington | Marquis de Lafayette |
| One of the British Generals during the revoluttionary war. Killed just before the Battle of Carillion at Fort Ticonderoga. | General William Howe |
| British Commander forced to surrender at Yorktown. | Charles Cornwallis |