Lesson 1-3

Question 1

traitor

Answer 1

someone who acts against his or her own country

Question 2

enlist

Answer 2

to sign up for duty in the army

Question 3

mercenary

Answer 3

hired soldiers

Question 4

campaign

Answer 4

series of military operations carried out for certain good

Question 5

turning point

Answer 5

an event that causes an important change

Question 6

negotiate

Answer 6

to talk with one another to work out an arguement

Question 7

Marquis de Lafayette

Answer 7

French soldiers who fought alongside the Americans in the Revolutionary war

Question 8

Benedict Arnold

Answer 8

a Continental Army officer who became a traitor

Question 9

Nathan Hale

Answer 9

He worked as a spy for the continental army

Question 10

John Paul Jones

Answer 10

An American navy commander who would battle larger British ships

Question 11

Molly Pitcher

Answer 11

Took their husbands places in battle by loading the cannons

Question 12

Tadeusz Kosciuszko

Answer 12

• from Polland

- built defense walls and helped design west point fort for California

Question 13

Nathanael Greene

Answer 13

led California in the South

Question 14

Charles Cornwallis

Answer 14

British general who surrendered at the Battle of Yorktown

Question 15

West Point

Answer 15

Continental fort, New York

Question 16

Savannah

Answer 16

• in Georgia

- British first target, won

Question 17

Charlestown

Answer 17

early 1780’s British traveled to Charlestown, won

Question 18

Cowpens

Answer 18

General Daniel Morgan led Americans to major South

Question 19

Guilford Courthouse

Answer 19

March 1781 bad battle because the British lost

Question 20

Yorktown

Answer 20

small town in South Eastern Virginia

Question 21

What happened when the British captured Hale?

Answer 21

they hung him because they found out he was a spy, from then on Hale became a hero

Question 22

MarMary Ludwig Hays McCauley carried fresh water to American troops during the battle of Monmouth. Why do you think she was considered a hero?

Answer 22

She was a woman, who was underestimated, and without fresh water the troops most likely wouldn’t survive.

Question 23

What affect did Kosciuszko have on the Battle of Saratoga?

Answer 23

He built walls and helped design plans for a fort at West Point, and without his help the defenses would’ve been much more weak.

Question 24

In which region did most of the war’s early battles take place?

Answer 24

American Colonies

Question 25

Ater the British captured several cities in the North, what did they hope to accomplish?

Answer 25

to defeat the Americans in the South before the French and capture Southern port cities

Question 26

Why did the British want to capture Southern port cities?

Answer 26

The British knew many Loyalists lived in the South

Question 27

What actions of Benedict Arnold’s went against the Continental Army? Why do you think he became a traitor?

Answer 27

• Benedict Arnold began leading British attacks on Virginia towns
• He also gave the British plans to American fort
• He became a traitor because he was unsatisfied with the Continental Army’s decisions

Question 28

Why did the British concentrate on the South?

Answer 28

Many Loyalists lived in the South, and they hoed for Loyalist’s support

Question 29

What advantage did Yorktown’s relative location offer General Cornwallis?

Answer 29

It made it easy for British ships to deliver supplies

Question 30

How did that advantage later become a disadvantage?

Answer 30

It could be surrounded easily

Question 31

How did the French contribute to the American victory at Yorktown?

Answer 31

The French navy took control of Chesapeake bay

Question 32

What were the effects of the Treaty of Paris?

Answer 32

• formally ended the war
• George Washington leads the Army
• America’s borders are Georgia to Great Lakes to Mississippi River