UNIT 2 Test: American revolution: Battles

Question 1

• Colonists have control of a strategic hill overlooking Boston
• Redcoats try a frontal assault = disaster
• Colonials run out of bullets and flee in disarray
• over 1,000 British casualties to 400 American casualties

Answer 1

Battle of Bunker Hill, June 7, 1775

Question 2

Lexington & Concord

Question 3

• Washington abandoned the army tradition of not fighting in Trenton, December 1776winter & led his troops across the Delaware river on Christmas
• U.S. surprises the enemy & defeated them
• Germans capture 900 troops
• U.S. looses 5

Answer 3

Trenton, December 1776

Question 4

• 6,000 British soldiers surrender to the continental army in New York
• Convinced France to join the patriot army
• Spain
  will join to aid U.S. later
• Americans used rifles barrel to target officers
• British help failed to arrive
• British far from supplies

Answer 4

Sorotoga, New York, Fall 1777

Question 5

• Not enough equipment
• Lack of supplies
• 1 in 6 die from disease
• 3,000 died from disease

Answer 5

Washington & Valley forge 1777-78

Question 5

• Patriots win, but only because of the French naval assistance and blockade

Answer 5

Yorktown, 17 October, 1781 Virginia