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Question 1

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Which side of the American Revolution had more Native American allies?

Answer 1

the British

Question 2

Why did more Native Americans side with the British than the Americans?

Answer 2

The natives saw the British as less of a threat to their land.

Question 3

Who was Joseph Brant?

Answer 3

a Mohawk chief

Question 4

Which side did the Mohawk tribe side with?

Answer 4

the British

Question 5

What did the Native Americans help the British attack?

Answer 5

American settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains

Question 6

Who was the British commander at Detroit?

Answer 6

Henry Hamilton

Question 7

What was Henry Hamilton’s nickname?

Answer 7

the hair buyer

Question 8

Why was Henry Hamilton called the hair buyer?

Answer 8

He paid the Native Americans for settler’s scalps

Question 9

What leader went to end the British and Native American attacks on western settlers?

Answer 9

George Rogers Clark

Question 10

What two British positions did George Rogers Clark capture in the frontier?

Answer 10

a post at Kaskaskia in Illinois and the town of Vincennes in Indiana

Question 11

What other Native American tribe helped the British?

Answer 11

the Cherokee

Question 12

What did Great Britain’s navy help them do?

Answer 12

prevent ships from entering or leaving American ports, which kept supplies and reinforcements from the colonial army

Question 13

What was the problem with the American navy?

Answer 13

they did not have enough ships and were to weak to fight the well-armed British

Question 14

What did Congress do to make up for their weak navy?

Answer 14

authorized privateering

Question 15

Why was it easy to find privateers?

Answer 15

it was a very profitable trade

Question 16

What American naval officer raided British ports?

Answer 16

John Paul Jones

Question 17

What was Britain’s new strategy in the Revolution?

Answer 17

start in the South, which had more loyalists, and build a strong and quick offense

Question 18

What was the worst American defeat in the Revolution?

Answer 18

the loss of Charles Town

Question 19

Who lead the British siege of Charles Town?

Answer 19

General Henry Clinton

Question 20

When was Charles Town lost?

Answer 20

May 1780

Question 21

Who was put in charge of the British forces in the South after Clinton left?

Answer 21

General Charles Cornwallis

Question 22

Who lead the American forces to fight the British in the South?

Answer 22

General Horatio Gates

Question 23

Who won the Battle of Camden?

Answer 23

the British

Question 24

What problem did the British face after the Battle of Camden?

Answer 24

They could not control all the land that they had conquered to do the colonists’ guerrilla warfare

Question 25

What is guerrilla warfare?

Answer 25

military technique in which insurgents surprise their enemy with a quick attack and then escape without many losses

Question 26

Who was Francis Marion?

Answer 26

a colonial leader who launched many successful guerrilla attacks on the British

Question 27

Where did Francis Marion operate from?

Answer 27

the swamps of eastern South Carolina

Question 28

What was Francis Marion known as?

Answer 28

the Swamp Fox

Question 29

Who was Bernando de Gálvez?

Answer 29

governor of Louisiana in New Spain

Question 30

What did Bernando de Gálvez do?

Answer 30

help the colonists buy lending money, opening New Orleans, and sending supplies and ammunition up the Mississippi

Question 31

When did Spain declare war on Britian?

Answer 31

summer of 1779

Question 32

What did Bernando de Gálvez do after Spain formally declared war on Britain?

Answer 32

raise an army and attacked several British positions along the lower Mississippi

Question 33

What were the benefits of the help from New Spain?

Answer 33

allowed supplies to come from Spain, France, Cuba, and Mexico and secured the western borders of the colonies

Question 34

Why did Southerners start to support the fight for independence?

Answer 34

After the Patriot victory at Kings Mountains, they wanted the war to end so their houses and farmland would be be preserved.

Question 35

Who was Nathanael Greene?

Answer 35

the replacement commander for the continental forces in the South

Question 36

What was Nathanael Greene's strategy?

Answer 36

He split the army in two and send one part to defeat the British at Cowpens, while the other section went to join Marion with the guerrilla raids

Question 37

What caused the British to abandon their fight in Carolina?

Answer 37

Cornwallis's army was heavily weakened at Guilford Courthouse

Question 38

What success did Cornwallis have after their losses at Guilford Courthouse?

Answer 38

they raided Virginia and nearly captured Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature

Question 39

Who did Washington send to fight Cornwallis near the end of the fight for the South?

Answer 39

Lafayette and Anthony Wayne

Question 40

Where did Cornwallis set up camp?

Answer 40

Yorktown, on the Virginia coast