Revolutionary War

What was the name given to Americans who supported independence?

• Separtists

• Tories

• Loyalists

• Patriots

Those that took neither side in the war were

• unpatriotic

• neutral

• Hessians

• Patriots

The hired soldiers from Germany that Britain employed were known as

• Tories

• militia

• Hessians

• privateers

On Christmas night in 1776, George Washington won a victory in

• Saratoga

• Germantown

• Philadelphia

• Trenton

The nation that formed an alliance with the revolutionary United States in 1778 was

• Spain

• Netherlands

• Canada

• France

What problem caused Congress to stop issuing paper money?

• cold winter

• slavery

• inflation

• supplies

Who was the French nobleman that became one of Washington’s trusted aides?

• Fracois de Grasse

• Comte de Rocambeau

• Juan de Miralles

• Marquis de Lafayette

The hit-and-run technique of fighting, which caught the British off guard, is called

• face to face combat

• swamp fighting

• guerrilla wafare

• shipboard fighting

The “Swamp Fox,” known for his hit-and-run tactics that gave Britain problems was

• Benedict Arnold

• Francis Marion

• John Paul Jones

• George Rogers Clark

By the end of the war, African Americans were enlisted in every state except for

• Maryland

• North Carolina

• Georgia

• South Carolina