Review of the Revolution

An army of citizens who fight in an emergency

• militia

• patriots

• loyalists

George Washington was the commanding general.

• mercenary

• militia

• Continental Army

A Connecticut officer who spied against the British and was captured and executed

• George Washington

• Nathan Hale

• John Paul Jones

Final battle of the war where the British surrender on October 19, 1781.

• Yorktown

• Bunker Hill

• Saratoga

Colonists who opposed British rule

• Patriots

• Loyalists

The first major victory by the Americans, located in upstate New York.

• Trenton

• Saratoga

• Bunker Hill

Shutting off a port to keep supplies out and the people in

• siege

• mercenary

• blockade

A woman who fought at the Battle of Monmouth by firing the cannons

• Betsy Ross

• Martha Washington

• Molly Pitcher

The “Swamp Fox” who led southern militia against the British by using guerilla tactics

• Francis Marion

• George Rogers Clark

• Daniel Morgan

Sons of Liberty response to the Tea Act

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

• Lexington and Concord