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Chapter 6 The American Revolution
Chapter 6 The American Revolution 8th
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8th Grade
12/02/2011

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Banastre Tarleton
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British commander who was called The Green Dragoon
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Francis Marion
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American commander who was called The Swamp Fox
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ally
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people who work together to reach a goal
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Treaty of Paris
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Treaty that ended the American Revolution
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Mary Ludwig Hays
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Also known as Molly Pitcher
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Ethan Allen
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Captured British Cannons from Fort Ticonderoga
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The immediate action that the Second Continental Congress took in response to the fighting at Lexington and Concord
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They established the Continental Army and Navy
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The advantages that helped the Continental Army help evacuate Boston of British soldiers in 1776
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The use of captured British canons from Fort Ticonderoga
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The three main ideas in the Declaration of Independence
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Natural Rights, British Wrongs, and Independence
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The last battle of the Revolutionary War
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Yorktown
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Who captured Fort Vincennes with the help of the Virginia militia?
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George Rodgers Clark
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Which battle became a turning point of the war because it prompted the French to join the Patriots?
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Saratoga
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The crucial mistake that British General Cornwallis made that led to the defeat of the British army.
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He tried to fight on the Yorktown Peninsula
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Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"
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A phamplet that spoke out against kings
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British abandoned Boston in March, 1776 because
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American cannons threatened Boston Harbor
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Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys
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Captured Fort Ticonderoga
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Banastre Tarleton is known for
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Firing on surrendered soldiers and being outsmarted during the Battle of Cowpens
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John Paul Jones became a Patriot hero
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by defeating and capturing the British warship Serapis
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How was the British army trapped at Yorktown?
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There was a fleet of French warships
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Battles of Long Island and Saratoga
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Took place in New York
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The strength of the Continental Army that was important when it came to winning the war was
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Military strategy based on local geography
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Treaty of Paris
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British recognized The U.S. as an independent nation and Florida was returned to Spain
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Bunker Hill
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Battle where the Continental Army was low on ammo
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Saratoga
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Battle that was fought in three parts
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Trenton
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Battle begun with Washington crossing the Delaware on Christmas night
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Yorktown
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Last battle of the American Revolution
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Cowpens
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Morgan defeated Tarleton using unconventional methods
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Princeton
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Washington tricked Cornwallis using a fake camp
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Benedict Arnold
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Betrayed the Continental Army to the British
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Thomas Jefferson
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Wrote the Declaration of Independence
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Brittish General Howe
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General who spent the winter in Philadelphia instead of fighting at Saratoga
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