End Of the Revolution

Question 1

battle of saratoga

Answer 1

september and october of 1777, john burgoyne vs horatio gates, goal is to come from canada and cut through NE and cut them off, burgoyne is waiting for re enforcements, howe the reinforcement does not come, complete british disaster, horatio gates gets credit - maybe he should get washington’s job?

Question 2

valley forge

Answer 2

continental army’s winter quarters, absolutley nothing, they have to build homes, and make fire cakes - flour and water, von steuben comes and trains them while they are training they forget about their hunger and won’t revolt, come out on june 1778

Question 3

how is france involved?

Answer 3

war widens, after saratoga the french say they’ll help us, money and ammunition, france gets the spanish to join, parliment sends a letter “as long as you come back to britain we won’t control you just come back” we say no
franco american alliance : we help each other, france fights till we are independent, george is pissed

Question 4

benedict arnold

Answer 4

got shot in the leg, is in love with peggy shipman the daughter of a loyalist, passed over for promotion and he’s broke
john andre : major in the british army and british spy
benedict gives him america’s game plan for money

Question 5

West point

Answer 5

benedict asks if he can help by taking over west point, john runs into americans and they capture him and find that arnold is a traitor, andre was hung, arnold runs and joins the british and dies broke

Question 6

naval war

Answer 6

country’s first naval hero : John Paul jones with his ship bon homme richard, while in the north sea he takes the hms serapis, our navy is made of american privateers

Question 7

southern fighting

Answer 7

british moving up the coast from georgia, captured savannah and charelston, forces british into nc, commander cornwallis

Question 8

battle of cowpens

Answer 8

fought in cowpens, daniel morgan- forced british into nc

Question 9

yorktown

Answer 9

cornwallis moves to yorktown and washington and french surround him, final land battle of revolutionary war, october 1781 cornwallis is to scared to surrender so he makes his second in command do it

Question 10

victory

Answer 10

treaty of paris, september 3, 1783, peace of paris, we send john adams, ben franklin, and john j, americans get all they ask for, the british left before the picture was done- crybabies

Question 11

how revolutionary was the war?

Answer 11

politics - same
economics - same
women - more education to train the next men to run the country
african americans - same but it is better in the north
native americans - same