American Revolution Notes

Name ______

Advantages / Disadvantages
Patriots / • Familiar with territory (home field advantage)
• George Washington
• Had survival techniques
• Wilderness style fighting
• belief in a cause / • 15,000 to 20,000 soldiers at best
• Lacked discipline and training
• No regular pay
• Shortage of supplies
• Wanted to stay with home militia
British /
• 50,000 soldiers
• Well trained army
• Officers with battle experience
• More supplies
• Best Navy in the world
• Hessians (hired German soldiers) /
• Unfamiliar with territory
• 3,000 miles away
• Fighting tactics (straight line)
• Swamps, thick forested land, and rapidly flowing rivers
  • GreenMountain Boys
  • Small band of rebels led by ______
  • Captured valuable weapons and ammunition at ______with the help of Benedict Arnold’s troops.
  • Battle of Bunker Hill
  • “Don’t fire till you see the white of their eyes.”
  • Considered a moral victory because ______
  • Thomas Paine
  • Author of ______
  • Patrick Henry
  • “______”
  • Declaration of Independence
  • President of the Second Continental Congress and signed his name the largest - ______
  • Most members of the Second Continental Congress wanted to ______.
  • ______introduced the resolution to declare independence from Britain which led to the writing of the Declaration of Independence.
  • Author - ______
  • Signed on ______
  • Parts:
  • preamble - ______
  • Declaration of Natural Rights (citizen’s rights)
  • List of Grievances
  • Declared the colonies - ______
  • Spying on the Enemy
  • Name of the American spy network = ______
  • ______was caught spying on the British and was hanged.
  • “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
  • Battles of Trenton and Princeton
  • On ______, Washington and his troops crossed the ______and defeated the Hessians at Trenton.
  • Washington’s troops defeated the British at Princeton as well.
  • Turning Point of the War
  • 1st time they showed they could win the war.
  • Captured at least ______British soldiers as prisoners.
  • After the victory at Saratoga, ______openly supported the colonists by signing the ______.
  • Valley Forge
  • This is where ______spent a harsh winter preparing his troops.
  • ______, Prussian soldier, helped to train troops here.
  • War at Sea
  • ______(Father of the American Navy) - captain of the Bonhomme Richard and defeated the Serapis.
  • “I have not yet begun to fight.” – response when asked to surrender.
  • Benedict Arnold
  • ______
  • Francis Marion
  • Nickname: ______
  • Known for his imaginative war tactics and for success in battle (guerrilla warfare)
  • African Americans in the War
  • Offered their ______by the British should they fight on the British side.
  • Women’s role in the War
  • In charge of running businesses and family farms
  • Spies
  • Nurses, cooked, sewed, fought
  • ______took her husband’s place at the battle of Monmouth and was nicknamed ______.
  • Yorktown, the final battle
  • This was where ______was trapped and forced to surrender in 1781.
  • He was surrounded by Washington’s troops on land and blockaded by ______ships in the Chesapeake Bay.
  • Treaty of Paris, 1783
  • Signed ______
  • Terms of the Treaty:
  1. Great Britain had to acknowledge the independence of the colonists and remove their troops immediately.
  2. Great Britain gave the USA all ______.
  3. ______was returned to Spain.
  • Terms:
  • Anne Hutchinson
  • Boston Massacre engraving
  • Compromise
  • Crispus Attucks
  • Culture (KY and the spread of culture)
  • Glorious Revolution
  • Hessian
  • House of Burgesses
  • Loyalists
  • OhioValley
  • Olive Branch Petition (sent by the Second Continental Congress)
  • Pilgrims
  • Proclamation of 1763
  • Social Mobility
  • Town Meetings
  • Treason