avr part 3

Question 1

DOI

Answer 1

establishes natural rights for the U.S. and declared U.S.
independence from Britain. life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

Question 2

articles of confederation

Answer 2

first constitution of the U.S. which includes state sovereignty was drafted by John Dickinson

Question 3

Friedrich von Steuben

Answer 3

prussian generaal who trains the army at valley forge in pa

Question 4

Marquis de Lafayette

Answer 4

French Colonel who helped train the army

Question 5

Thaddeus Kosciuszko

Answer 5

Polish general who trains the Continental Army’s artillery

Question 6

Casimir Pulaski

Answer 6

Polish general who trains the Continental Army’s cavalry

Question 7

George Rogers clarck

Answer 7

Patriot Indian fighter who defeated British general Henry
Hamilton on the frontier

Question 8

anthony wayne

Answer 8

Patriot who fought like the Indians on the frontier

Question 9

Chief Joseph Brant

Answer 9

British allied Mohawk Indian chief on the frontier

Question 10

thomas gage

Answer 10

Massachusetts royal governor and main British general at the start of Rev War and he ordered force to seize colonial military supplies from Concord & Lex ; arrest of . Adams & J. Hancock

Question 11

William howe

Answer 11

british commander in chief 75-78
takes over NYC and Philly fired after saratoga

Question 12

john burgoyne

Answer 12

british general who surrendered in saratoga

Question 13

british southern strategy

Answer 13

strategy adopted in 1780 to focus on the money colonies in the south and to unite loyalist support
-believed there were more Loyalist support in the South b/c plantation owners NEEDED British trade

Question 14

henry clinton

Answer 14

commander in chief 78-82 takes over howe. sails north to NYC to focus on leading the war from there after charlestone

Question 15

Lord General Charles Cornwallis

Answer 15

2 nd in command to Henry Clinton; takes over British Southern
Strategy after Burgoyne

Question 16

henry knox

Answer 16

Continental artillery general who brought cannons to Boston. father of the American artillery corps. -would become 1 st Secretary of War

Question 17

john paul jones

Answer 17

first real American navy captain; wins in the North Sea (by England) in the battle of Flamborough Head

Question 18

francis marion

Answer 18

used guerilla tactics to bother the British in the South, chased in the south by British Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton

Question 19

nathanial greene

Answer 19

Led Patriot victory v. Loyalists @ King’s Mountain, S.C. Commander of the troops in the South -Washington’s most trusted general

Question 20

alexander hamilton

Answer 20

Continental colonel & G. Washington’s right-hand man during the war

Question 21

Siege of Yorktown

Answer 21

Last major battle of the Revolutionary War where British general Cornwallis
surrenders. effectively ending British support of the war in Parliament.

Question 22

“World Turned Upside Down”

Answer 22

Song that the British played during their surrender @ Yorktown

Question 23

treaty of paris

Answer 23

Treaty that ends the Revolutionary War

Question 24

parts of the treaty of Paris (7)

Answer 24

1. All land east of the Mississippi River = America
2. Britain recognizes U.S.A. independence
3. U.S.A. receives fishing rights from Canada
4. U.S.A. citizens pay off all outstanding debts owed to the British
5. Loyalist amnesty
6. British must abandon all forts in American territory
7. Spain gets Florida back