Ch. 6

Question 0

Virginia patriot whose speeches supported the war

Answer 0

Patrick Henry

Question 1

British General whose army occupied Boston and attacked Concord

Answer 1

Thomas Gage

Question 2

Commander of the green mountain boys who captured fort Ticonderoga

Answer 2

Ethan Allen

Question 3

Commander and chief of the continental army

Answer 3

George Washington

Question 4

American ordnance chief who surprised the British by transporting heavy artillery to boston

Answer 4

Henry Knox

Question 5

Successful winter raid that lifted the morale of the young continental army

Answer 5

Trenton

Question 6

Unsuccessful attempt to stop the British from taking Philadelphia

Answer 6

Battle of Brandywine

Question 7

Englishman who wrote common sense to arouse support for independence

Answer 7

Thomas Paine

Question 8

Primary author of the deceleration of independence

Answer 8

Thomas Jefferson

Question 9

American negotiator for the treaty of Paris and a member of the committee that drafted the deceleration of independence

Answer 9

John Adams

Question 10

British General who took New York and Philadelphia but missed his main objective

Answer 10

William Howe

Question 11

Continental army’s headquarters during the dark winter of 1777-8

Answer 11

Valley forge

Question 12

The draw that proved the new professionalism of the continental army

Answer 12

Monmouth

Question 13

German drill master for the continental army

Answer 13

Baron Von Steuben

Question 14

American leader in the northwest who captured Vincennes

Answer 14

George Rogers Clark

Question 15

British General who surrendered his army near Saratoga

Answer 15

John Burgoyne

Question 16

Overrated American commander who won at Saratoga but lost at Camden

Answer 16

Horatio gates

Question 17

Why did George Washington attempt to defend New York

Answer 17

Giving up the city without a fight would damage support for the war

Question 18

Why was Princeton an important victory for Washington

Answer 18

It strengthened American morale

Question 19

American leader who was vital in winning the battles of Saratoga and cowpens

Answer 19

Daniel Morgan

Question 20

Why was the Saratoga campaign an important victory for the patriots

Answer 20

Encouraged France to join the war, the Americans now had a powerful ally.

Question 21

Capture of a British army, encouraged France to join the war

Answer 21

Saratoga campaign

Question 22

First engagement in the war for independence

Answer 22

Lexington and concord

Question 23

Early American success that supplied artillery for the forces around Boston

Answer 23

Fort Ticonderoga

Question 24

Costly British victory outside of Boston

Answer 24

Bunker hill

Question 25

"Citizen soldiers" such as minutemen

Answer 25

Militia

Question 26

Boston's patriots took action in 1773 when some British ships refused to take their tea back to England

Answer 26

Boston tea party

Question 27

Colonial supporters of the British during the war for independence

Answer 27

Loyalists or Tories

Question 28

Crucial issue behind the war for independence

Answer 28

Practical self government

Question 29

Main purpose of the committees of correspondence

Answer 29

Know what the British were doing

Question 30

Sparked the coercive acts

Answer 30

Boston tea party

Question 31

Common sense advocated

Answer 31

Independence from Britain

Question 32

Act of treason that Benedict Arnold performed

Answer 32

Handing over a fort

Question 33

Patriot guerrilla called the swamp fox

Answer 33

Francis Marion

Question 34

What capacity did the swamp fox helps the war effort

Answer 34

Launching guerrilla raids

Question 35

Resourceful American commander in the south known as the figting Quaker who kept the pressure on there british

Answer 35

Nathaniel Greene

Question 36

British General who surrendered his army at Yorktown

Answer 36

Charles Cornwallis

Question 37

French aristocrat who helped to corner the British in Yorktown

Answer 37

Marquis de Lafayette

Question 38

Treaty brought the war for independence to an end

Answer 38

Treaty of Paris