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cms 8th ss ch 7
Chamberlain middle school 8th grade ss chap 7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Minutemen | members of the Bostton militia |
| Redcoats | nickname for British soldiers, whose uniforms made them ideal targets |
| Patriots | colonists who chose to fight for independence |
| Loyalists | colonists who sided with Britain in the war |
| George Washington | commander of the Continental Army |
| Battle of Princeton | battle in which the Patriots circled a British camp in the dark and attacked in the morning |
| Abigail Adams | author of an appeal to include the rights of women in the Declaration of Independence |
| Francis Marion | Patriot who excelled in guerrilla warfare |
| Battle of Yorktown | battle in which Washington's Patriots defeated the largest British force on the continent |
| First Continental Congress | Decided to continue boycotting British goods and prepare a militia in case violence broke out with the British |
| Battle of Saratoga | The major turning point in the Revolutionary War |
| Second Continental Congress | organized and funded an army to defend the colonies |
| The treaty ending the Revolutionary War | The Treaty of Paris |
| What was one of Britain's advantages in the Revolution | Britain had vast finacial and military resources |
| What Mohawk leader was one of the most important allies for the British | Joseph Brant |
| In which of the following battles did Washinghton's troops cross the Delaware River to launch a surprise attack | Battle of Trenton |
| The author of Common Sense | Thomas Paine |
| Who was the skilled frontiersman who organized a western campaign against the British | George Rogers Clark |
| The Delcaration of Independence | defined what the colonitst believed to be their rights |
| William Daws and Paul Revere | Rode to warn people the British were coming |
| The rights of woman and African Americans were left out of | The Declaration of Independence |
| Lord Dunmore's Proclamation | Freed any slave who fought for the British |
| members of the Boston militia | minutemen |
| nickname for British soldiers, whose uniforms made them ideal targets | Redcoats |
| colonists who chose to fight for independence | Patriots |
| colonists who sided with Britain in the war | Loyalists |
| hired foreign soldiers | mercenaries |
| commander of the Continental Army | George Washington |
| battle in which the Patriots circled a British camp in the dark and attacked in the morning | Battle of Princeton |
| author of an appeal to include the righs of women in the Declaration of Independence | Abigail Adams |
| Patriot who excelled in guerrilla warfare | Francis Marion |
| Battle in which Washington's Patriots defeated the largest British force on the continent | Battle of Yorktown |
| Which group decided to continue boycotting British goods and prepare a militia in case of violence broke out with the British? | First Continental Congress |
| Which of the following battles was the major turning point in the Revolutionary War? | Battle of Saratoga |
| Which group organized and funded an army to defend the colonies? | Second Continental Congress |
| What was one of Britains advantages in the Revolution | Britain had vast financial and military resources. (Vast means big, large a lot of) |
| Like Paul Revere, colonist William Dawes rode to warn people that the British were coming | True |
| The rights of women and African Amerians were included in the Declaration of Independence | False |
| Lord Dunmore's Proclamation prohibitied slaves from fighting on the side of the British army | False. |
| The Patriots owed much of their naval success to hero Bernardo de Galvez | False.. |
| When the fighting moved to the South, Patriots adopted guerrilla warfare tactics to defeat the British | True.. |
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