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Am His Test 3 part 2
Question | Answer |
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Tax on legal documents | Stamp Act |
Act allowing British soldiers to live in civilian homes | Quartering Act |
Barred all colonial settlements in lands west of the Appalachian Mountains | Proclamation of 1783 |
Thomas Paine, an Englishman, wrote this pamphlet urging colonists to declare their independence from England | Common Sense |
Tax on tea, lead (paint), glass | Townshend Act |
Official end of American Revolution | Treaty of Paris |
"Fighting Quaker;" leader of Southern Patriot forces | Nathanael Greene |
American Army | Continental Army |
Black slave; trusted by Lafayette to spy on the British for the Patriots | James Armistead |
British General; led the attack on Bunker Hill | Gage |
British General; surrendered at Yorktown but refused to do it personally | Cornwallis |
Frenchmen; helped the Americans win the war | Lafayette |
Men from Vermont that took the British-held fort in New York | Green Mountain Boys. |
Nickname for the British troops; named for the color of their uniforms | Redcoats |
Nickname given to Francis Marion of SC because of his guerrilla warfare | Swamp Fox |
Opposed to War for Independence; loyal to king | Loyalists |
Patriot General became a traitor and helped the British | Benedict Arnold |
Prussian (German); helped Washington drill his soldiers into a disciplined army | Baron von Steuben |
Prussian (German) soldiers paid by the British to fight the Patriots | Hessians |
Supported the War for Independence | Patriots |
Volunteer militia that could be ready to fight in a minute's notice | Minutemen |
1st major battle of the war; British victory | Bunker Hill |
Bitter winter camp of the Continental army, 1777-1778 | Valley Forge |
British Generals planned to divide the colonies along this line | Hudson River |
British-held fort in New York that guarded the road between Canada & New York | Fort Ticonderoga |
Patriot victory; ended the war | Yorktown |
The "shot heard 'round the world;" 1st shots fired of the war | Lexington, Concord |
Turning point in the war; convinced the French to help the Patriots defeat the British | Saratoga |