1. The American Revolution
Chapter 6

2. Colonist who warned the minutemen that British troops were marching toward Concord

3. Some members of colonial militias were known as

4. The colonists’ ability to withstand an assault by the British army was proved at the

5. crossed Lake Champlain from Vermont and at dawn surprised and captured the sleeping garrison at Fort Ticonderoga.

6. A 50 page pamphlet that argued in clear and forceful language that the time had come for the colonists to declare their independence.

7. supported the British,

8. supported independence.

9. British ruler who rejected the Olive Branch Petition

10. Person appointed commander of the Continental Army

11. military blockade of a city or fort

12. General Washington successfully used the tactic of surprise at the battles of

13. December 26, 1776, battle between Hessians and Patriot forces

14. hired foreign soldiers who fight in a war

15. One important advantage that the colonists had over the British was

16. The primary author of the Declaration of Independence

17. While this general waited for two other British armies to arrive in the Hudson Valley, his supplies were dwindling, the morale of his men was shrinking, and winter was fast approaching.

18. the French formally declared their support for the Patriot cause after this battle

19. a young Frenchman who spoke little English arrived in the United States to help the colonists battle the British.

20. After the American victory at Saratoga, the British shifted their focus more toward the

21. After the southern army was destroyed, the Patriots relied on swift attacks called

22. order issued by the royal governor of Virginia offering freedom to any slave who would fight for the British

23. The Swamp Fox was a name given to the guerrilla leader

24. The decision in her case was the basis for freedom of the few slaves remaining in Massachusetts.

25. She came down with a fever and was sent to a hospital where doctors discovered the soldier was a woman.

26. Tradition has it that he would attempt to convey his orders with sign language when confusion over his lack of English ensued. When that did not work, he would curse and swear in German and French while drilling soldiers

27. Gen. George Washington put him in charge of military engineering works at West Point along the Hudson River. For 28 months, he planned and built permanent fortifications at West Point, and was so successful that the British never attacked.
Furthermore, he is also the namesake for numerous statutes, bridges, streets and parks across the United States and the world. Not to mention in Poland where every major town has a street or a square named after him.

28. He knew that his best chance of success was to strike first by surprise. Within a month he had captured all four British forts in the lower Mississippi including Baton Rouge and Natchez. He captured 550 enemy soldiers and two naval vessels, one of which was captured from land.

29. led a small force of frontiersmen through the freezing waters of the Illinois country to capture British-held Forts at Kaskaskia and Vincennes

30. more than one fifth of Washington’s troops died of disease and malnutrition at

31. Surrendered his troops at Yorktown, Virginia to the combined forces of America and France.

32. In the fall of 1781, General George Washington, with allied American and French forces, besieged General Charles Lord Cornwallis’s British army at this Virginia tobacco port.

33. The national borders of the United States were laid out in