Chapter 6 Lesson 1

Mercenaries hired by the British.

• Hessians
• Loyalists

The American victory at this battle stopped the British plan to cut off New England.

• Long Island
• Philadelphia
• Saratoga

British General defeated at Saratoga

• Billings
• Burgoyne
• Bradford

More Loyalists were found in the 

• Southern Colonies
• Middle Colonies
• New England Colonies

Key port city on the Hudson River

• Philadelphia
• Princeton
• Albany

Washington led the Continental Army to victory on Christmas Day, 1776, at 

• Long Island
• Brandywine
• Trenton

Advantage:  strongest navy in the world

• Patriots
• British

Advantage:  fighting on their own land

• Patriots
• English

He warned colonists not to be overconfident and that it would be "a long and bloody war"

• Patrick Henry
• Sam Adams
• John Adams

Disguised herself as a man and fought for the Patriots

• Martha Washington
• Abigail Adams
• Deborah Sampson