The War Is Won - Revolutionary War American Revolution

What THREE groups would meet at Yorktown, VA? (SELECT ALL CORRECT OPTIONS!)

• Lafayette's troops
• Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys
• The French fleet under Admiral De Grasse
• Horatio Gates and his western army
• Washington’s and Rochambeau’s main American-French army

What kept Cornwallis's 7,500 British and Hessian troops from escaping Yorktown by land?

• 14,000 American and French troops
• There was flooding that cut off the Yorktown peninsula from the mainland
• 5,000 Spanish soldiers arrived and blocked all of their paths
• Yorktown was on an island so there was no land route for escape

What kept Cornwallis’s 7,500 British and Hessian troops from escaping Yorktown by sea?

• De Galvez's fleet had sunk several ships which blocked British ships from getting to them
• The Americans put mines in the water that made it too dangerous to use boats
• De Grasse’s fleet kept Cornwallis from escaping by sea
• The French sunk all the British ships in the area

What did the Americans and French begin on October 9 at Yorktown, Virginia?

• They began a tremendous bombardment from their cannons on Cornwallis and his troops
• They began sending waves of troops to charged at Cornwallis and his troops defenses
• They began retreating from Cornwallis and his troops because they a large number of British reinforcements came
• They began fighting amongst themselves

What finally made Cornwallis realize the hopelessness of his situation and caused him to surrender on October 19, 1781 to the Patriots?

• He was angry with the leaders of the British government and wanted to embarrass them by giving up
• He decided that he would be better off if he joined the Continental Army
• British supplies began running low, and many soldiers were wounded or sick
• He had been ordered to surrender by General Clinton

Even though the fighting didn’t completely end with Yorktown, what did the Patriot victory at Yorktown convince the British about the war?

• it would be easy to win
• to stop taxing the colonists
• To make a new plan to win the war
• It convinced the British that the war was too costly to pursue

What was the FINAL Treaty of Paris?

• It was the agreement between the French and Americans that they would make an alliance.
• It was the agreement that ended the Revolutionary War with the British as the winners.
• It was the agreement between Britain and the United States that ended the Revolutionary War with the Americans as the winners.
• It was the agreement between the British and the Germans that they would make an alliance.

When was the FINAL Treaty of Paris signed?

• December 16, 1773
• July 4, 1776
• September 3, 1783
• September 17, 1787
• April 30, 1789

What TWO things did the Americans get from the Treaty of Paris? (SELECT ALL CORRECT OPTIONS!)

• Americans could live in Canada without living under the rule of Britain

• Britain agreed to that the Americans could keep all Loyalist property taken during the war

• Great Britain recognized the United States as an independent nation

• The British promised to withdraw all their troops from American territory

• Britain agreed to forgive all debts owed by Americans to British merchants

What TWO OTHER things did the Americans get from the Treaty of Paris? (SELECT ALL CORRECT OPTIONS!)

• They also agreed to give Americans the right to fish in the waters off the coast of Canada

• Americans could live in Canada without living under the rule of Britain

• The territory that the new nation claimed extended from the Atlantic Ocean west to the Mississippi River and from Canada in the north to Spanish Florida in the south.

• Britain agreed to that the Americans could keep all Loyalist property taken during the war

• Britain agreed to forgive all debts owed by Americans to British merchants