Test 5 Flashcards

(35 cards)

1
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Don’t fire until you see the white of their eyes

A

William Prescott

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2
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Advantages to the Americans

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  1. Fighting for independence

2. Leadership of Washington

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Disadvantages of the American

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  1. Poorly trained army/ no navy

2. Very little money for supplies

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4
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Two disadvantages of the British

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  1. Unfamiliar territory

2. Mercenary soldiers

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5
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Advantages of the British

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  1. Best trained army / navy

2, unlimited supplies

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3 reasons why people remained loyal

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  1. Jobs
  2. Wealth
  3. They thought the British can win
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7
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Last battle of the rev

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Yorktown

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8
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3 results of rev

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  1. U.s independence
  2. New society where people can rule themselves
  3. Americans started to question slavery
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9
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What treaty ended the rev

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Treaty of Paris

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10
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E pluribus unum

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Out of many people there’s one nation

U.s motto

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11
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Payed foreigners were called

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Hessian

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12
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Act the British stopped all trading ports

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Probability act

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13
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Oldest alliance

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American and France

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14
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Swamp fox

A

Francis Marion

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15
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American naval hero

A

John Paul jones

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16
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American General

A

Nathaniel Greene

17
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British General

A

Charles Cornwallis

18
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Disguised as a male to fight in the continental army

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Deborah Sampson

19
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In charge of raising money for the Americans

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Haymaker salomen

20
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Trained / disciplined the amer. Army

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Friedrich Von Lafayette

21
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Close aid to Washington ( french )

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Friedrich Von Steuben

22
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American spy

23
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Hero of Sarasota but later own be a traitor to am.

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Benedict Arnold

24
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Af am. Fought in bunker hill

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Unofficial colonial spokesman
Ben Franklin
26
Leader of the continental army
Washington
27
British commander
William Howe
28
Made the American flag
Betsy Ross
29
Am. Leader who defeated the native Americans
George Rogers Clark
30
Let the Native American army
Joseph Bryant
31
1st govt who served as the American during the war
2nd continental
32
Wigs
Patriots
33
Tories
Loyalists
34
How did the am. Pay off their debt
Print money Barrow from foreign countries
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Why did the native fight for the British
British promise them that they can move up the Appalachian mountains