Chapter 6

Question 1

Patriots

Answer 1

colonists who favored war with Britain

Question 2

Loyalists

Answer 2

colonists who remained loyal to Britain

Question 3

mercenaries

Answer 3

troops for hire

Question 4

preamble

Answer 4

introduction

Question 5

allies

Answer 5

work together to achieve a common goal

Question 6

ratified

Answer 6

approved

Question 7

Patriot Advantages

Answer 7

leadership of washington, figting for their homes, skilled with individually owned weapons, knowledge of local geography, used guerilla warefare outside of major cities

Question 8

immediately after the fighting at Lexington and Concord, a petition sent to King George by the colonists, they declared their loyalty to the king and asked him to repeal the Intolerable Acts-this came BEFORE the Declaration of Independence!

Answer 8

Olive Branch Petition

Question 9

makeshift army raised by the Second Continental Congress, led by George Washington

Answer 9

Continental Army

Question 10

led by Ethan Allen, these volunteers attacked Fort Ticonderoga by suprise, they won valuable supply of cannons and gunpowder as well as key route to Canada; the gunpowder later helped the continental army gain control of Boston

Answer 10

Green Mountain Boys

Question 11

colonists who favored war with Britain

Answer 11

Patriots

Question 12

colonists who remained loyal to Britain

Answer 12

Loyalists

Question 13

June 16, 1775,the first major battle of the Revolution, it proved that the Americans could fight bravely but the British would not be easy to defeat

Answer 13

Battle of Bunker Hill

Question 14

the shutting of a port to keep people or supplies from moving in or out

Answer 14

blockade

Question 15

troops for hire

Answer 15

mercenaries

Question 16

pamphlet published by Thomas Paine; the essay encouraged the colonies to declare indpendence, he said that they did not owe loyalty to King George or any other monarch and that the very idea of monarchy was wrong, and that it would only hurt the colonists to remain under British rule

Answer 16

Common Sense

Question 17

a person who betrays his or her country

Answer 17

traitor

Question 18

written by Thomas Jefferson on behalf of the Continental Congress; it consits of a preamble, a section on natural rights, a section on British wrongs and then finally declares independence

Answer 18

Declaration of Independence

Question 19

introduction

Answer 19

preamble

Question 20

1776 battle in New York in which more than 1,400 Americans were killed, wounded or captured; the rest retreated to Manhattan with the British in pursuit

Answer 20

Battle of Long Island

Question 21

1776 battle in New Jersey in which George Washington’s troops easily captured a Hessian, or German mercenaries, encampment

Answer 21

Battle of Trenton

Question 22

1777 battle, the first major American victory in the Revolution and a major TURNING POINT in the war, it not onlyl ended the British threat to New England and boosted American spirits, but it also convinced France to become an ally of the U.S.

Answer 22

Battle of Saratoga

Question 23

work together to achieve a common goal

Answer 23

allies

Question 24

troops on horseback

Answer 24

cavalry

Question 25

a makeshift camp where American soldiers suffered through the long, cold winter of 1777-1778

Answer 25

Valley Forge

Question 26

1781 battle in South Carolina where Americans won an important victory over the British

Answer 26

Battle of Cowpens

Question 27

hit-and-run tactics used in war

Answer 27

guerrilla

Question 28

when an army surrounds and blockades an enemy position in an attempt to capture it

Answer 28

siege

Question 29

1781 American victory in Virginia that forced the British to surrender- LAST BATTLE OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR

Answer 29

Battle of Yorktown

Question 30

peace treaty between the United States and Britain, ratified in 1783, it recognized the United States as an independent nation; our borders at this time extended from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River, the northern border stopped at the Great Lakes and the southern border stopped at Florida which belonged to Spain.

Answer 30

Treaty of Paris

Question 31

approved

Answer 31

ratified

Question 32

leadership of washington, figting for their homes, skilled with individually owned weapons, knowledge of local geography, used guerilla warefare outside of major cities

Answer 32

Patriot Advantages

Question 33

well trained troops, world’s best navy, had the support of many loyalist-especially in the backcountry of the Southern Colonies

Answer 33

British Advantages

Question 34

colonial forces were poorly organized and untrained, had few cannons and little gunpoweder, no navy, and many colonists did not want to fight far away from home

Answer 34

Patriot Disadvantages

Question 35

its armies were 3,000 miles away from home, news and supplies took months to reach them, they risked attack everytime they marched outside of the cities

Answer 35

British Disadvantages

Question 36

seized British forts for the Patriots on the southwestern frontier

Answer 36

Governor of Spanish Louisianna

Question 37

his most crucial mistake was disregarding orders and retreating to Yorktown Peninsula, this is where he and the British were captured and finally surrendered

Answer 37

British General Cornwallis