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C-6:The American Revolution

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  • "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country"
    Nathan Hale
  • No regularly army; soldiers lacked training and weapons
    American disadvantage during the Revolutionary War
  • The "Swamp Fox," known for his imaginative war tactics, and for operating out of the South Carolina swamps was
    Francis Marion
  • they had the strongest navy in the world
    a British advantage in the Revolutionary War
  • soldiers and supplies had to be shipped across the Atlantic Ocean
    British disadvantage during the Revolutionary War
  • an informal army made up of civilians
    militia
  • "I have not yet begun to fight"
    John Paul Jones
  • a prominent Patriot who was the president of the second Continental Congress and signed the D.O.I.
    John Hancock
  • disguised herself as a man so she could fight with the army
    Deborah Sampson
  • British Commander, Charles Cornwallis was defeated at the
    Battle of Yorktown
  • This battle is considered the turning point in the war; the Patriots gained the support of France
    Saratoga
  • Date of shots fired at Lexington and Concord
    April 19, 1775
  • town that was considered the revolutionary capital; D.O.I. was signed here
    Philadelphia
  • the British strategy to seize the Hudson River Valley was to
    cut off New England from the other colonies
  • Although the last significant battle took place in 1781, the treaty ending the war was signed in
    1783
  • In general, Loyalist support for Britain was weakest in
    New England
  • man who turned the ragged Continental Army into a more efficient fighting force was
    Friedrich von Steuben
  • The militia group that defeated Burgoyne’s troops at Bennington, Vermont, was the
    Green Mountain Boys
  • the idea of government as a social contract between people and their rulers was introduced by
    John Locke
  • the motto, “E pluribus unum” means
    “out of many, one”
  • The first state to have an all–African American regiment
    Rhode Island
  • Giving up the campaign to conquer the Carolinas, Cornwallis and his troops retreated to
    Virgina
  • 1777-1778 winter camp of George Washington and his army; many soldiers died here of sickness
    Valley Forge
  • The Americans faced inflation during the war because the amount of bills printed was greater than the supply of
    gold and silver
  • The surrender of ____ in May of 1780 marked the worst American defeat of the war.
    Charles Town, South Carolina
  • On Christmas night 1776, the Patriots scored a victory at
    Trenton
  • they knew the land
    an advantage of the Americans in the Revolutionary War
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