QUIZ 13 - Class 15: Part 1, French-American Alliance

Britain Defeat Results

Embarassed because of American victory

Battle of Trenton (1776)

A surprise attack done with guerrilla warfare

- Psychological victory

Battle of Saratoga (1777)

The first major victory of the American Revolution

- 3-point battle

Lord Cornwallis

Undefeated (1780-1781)

Benedict Arnold

A traitor, gave up West Point to the British unsuccessfully

General Rochambeau

French General

Marquis of Lafayette

A morale-boosting French teenage general

French Gifts

1. Navy

2. Army

3. Money

4. Remove British from America

Baron von Steuben

A Prussian drillmaster who whipped the Americans into shape

Francis Marion

The swampfox general who used guerrilla warfare

- Defeated Cornwallis in the South at Yorktown

Native Policy

Sided with Britain

- Scared of the dual E policy

George Rogers Clark

Fought the Natives in the Ohio Valley

October 1781

Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown

- Not the end of the American Revolution

Lasale Gumime

The stinking war

- Can't win the American Revolution/war

Treaty of Paris (1783)

1. American independence

- Atlantic to Mississippi River

2. Spain claims Florida

- Causes chaos in 31st Parallel

American Treaty Difficulties

1. Separate deal with Britain

- No French involvement

- War together = peace together

2. No loyalist compensation

- British exploitation loophole

Loyalist Treatment

1. Property taken

2. Slaves taken

3. Harassed

4. Assaulted

5. Got businesses taken

American Revolution Result

1. Infant Republic born

2. Independence

World's Ugly Duckling

The name for America, because no other nation wanted to be involved with them

1. Not monarch ran

2. Could spark rebllion in other countries

France Upset

1. Paris negotiation betrayal

2. No most favored nation trade

3. Bankrupt because of American Revolution

Spain Upset

Jealous because they lost their status, and harassed Americans through the 31st Parallel

Phases of Independence

1. Resistance

- Civil war b/t moderates and radicals

2. Revolution

- Collective shift and fight for independence

3. World War

- France involved, WI, Africa

Postponement

Because waiting for the French Alliance

British Mistakes of Saratoga

1. St. Leger defeated

2. General Howe not supposed to go to Philly

British Southern Strategy

1. Freedom for slaves

- Rebellion and joining the British Army

2. Hurt southern economy

3. Tool southern loyalists

4. Take hold of coastlines and rivers

- Arteries of invasion

Admiral DeBrasse

The admiral of the British Navy during Yorktown

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