| Question | Answer |
| Marquis de Lafayette | 19 year old French nobleman who volunteered to serve in Washington's army |
| Lord Cornwallis | British general that fought in many important battle |
| Thomas Paine | wrote encouraging letters to soliders |
| Baron von Steuben | helped turn the inexperienced soliders into skilled fights |
| George Washington | commander of Continental Army |
| Benjamin Franklin | diplomat to France and Britain |
| Swamp Fox (Francis Marion) | taught the method of Guerillas |
| Continental Army
-Leaders
-description
-challenges | leaders- George Washington, Marquis de Layafette, Baron von Steuben
-no skills and no experience
-not a lot of supplies |
| African Americans during the war. | fought for British or America |
| Native Americans during the war | Fought for British or America |
| Women during the war. | cooked and brought things to the troops while fighting pr helped with the wounded |
| Patriot strengths, weaknesses, strategies, and allies | knew land, had motivation, foreign aid, better leaders
untrained, inexperienced, low supples
guerillas
france and spain |
| British strengths, weaknesses, strategies, and allies | experienced, trained, well supplied, strong navy
overconfident
take coastal cities and then move inward
native americans, african americans |
| Valley Forge- what happened, who was there, what did it represent for Americans | it was a bad winter and many of Washington's troops dies then people came to help
many men stayed
represented the love for a country |
| Privateers | a privately owned ship that a wartime government gives permission to attack an enemy's merchant ships |
| MERCENARY | professional soldier hired to fight for a foreign country |
| Allies | France and Spain |
| Guerilla style fighting- where and who trained them | hit and runs attacks- in south- Francis Marion style of fighting |
| Pacifists | a person who opposes war |
| Battle of Yorktown | Americas won and the British then surrendered |
| Treaty of Paris- what were the terms | U.S.A was independent, stated boundaries, U.S. could fish off Canada's Atlantic coast, stated debt |
| Effects of the war- republicanism, canada, format of government | many Loyalists, African Americas, and Native Americas left to canada, America adopted the idea of republicanism where citizen rule. |
