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1. Anna Smith Strong contributed to the Patriot cause by passing coded messages when hanging
2. The Continental Congress sent Benjamin Franklin and John Adams to France in 1777 to her laundry in a specific way.
persuade the French to form an alliance with the Americans.
3. Tadeusz Kos Ciuszko was a military engineer.
4. Fighting against the British Royal Navy was a challenge for Americans because it was the
largest and most powerful navy in the world.
5. The French and Spanish navies provided aid to the Americans in their fight against Britain’s
Royal Navy.
6. The British relied on Loyalist and African American support in their fighting in the Southern
Colonies.
7. Cornwallis set up camp on the peninsula at Yorktown to protect the harbor for use by the
British fleet.
8. British General Burgoyne was surrounded by 20,000 American troops at the Second Battle of
Saratoga.
9. Nathaniel Greene belonged to the Quakers group.
10. General Henry Clinton offered freedom to enslaved men who joined the British Army.
11. Jefferson called the Battle of Kings Mountain “the turn of the tide of success” because General
Cornwallis returned to Virginia.
12. St. Leger led his British troops eastward in 1777 along the Mohawk River.
13. The American Revolution caused the Six Nations to split their loyalties between the Patriots
and the British.
14. The Battle of Yorktown was significant because the defeat of the British brought an end to the
American Revolution.
15. The Battle of Trenton led to future American victories because it persuaded William Howe to
retreat with his troops to New Jersey.
16. General Gates and Lord Cornwallis were opponents at the Battle of Camden.
17. At the battle of Saratoga in September 1777 General Gates’s 12,000 soldiers surrounded
General Burgoyne’s soldiers.
18. The British agreed to return Florida to Spain because of their participation in the American
Revolution.
19. Philis Wheatley was famous because she was the first published African American Poet.
20. Nontraditional military units called guerillas were most active in the swamp wetlands of the
Southeast.
21. The Battle of Kings Mountain was different from other battles because it involved frontier
Patriots.
22. Lafayette assisted the American war effort by taking part in many battles for the Continental
Army.
23. Francis Marion earned the nickname “the Swamp Fox” by dodging and attacking the British.
24. George Rogers Clark led the surprise attack on Fort Vincennes.
25. Soldiers suffered from the cold and lack of food at Valley Forge.
26. Food shortages were caused by the skirmishes between U.S. settlers and Iroquois forces.