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

Great Britain recognized the United States as an independent nation

The British promised to withdraw all their troops from American territory

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

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

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.

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

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

What TWO things did the Americans agree to that would be good for the British in the Treaty of Paris? (SELECT ALL CORRECT OPTIONS!)

Congress would advise the states that property taken from Loyalists was to be returned to them

The U.S. agreed that the British merchants could collect debts owed by Americans

British could keep soldiers in U.S. territory

The Americans had to keep paying taxes to the British

Congress would FORCE the states to collect debts owed by their citizens to the British and then the states would send the payments to the British merchants

After the British surrendered, Washington maintained a strong army with headquarters at Newburgh, New York. When did Washington plan to disband the army?

When the peace treaty was signed

When every last British soldier or citizen had left North America

When he had been elected as the first president of the United States

He did not plan to disband the army

Why were American soldiers angry with Congress?

Congress refused to fund their pensions and failed to provide other pay

They didn’t like Congress’ location and they wanted to move it

They didn’t get to vote for Congress

They weren’t angry with Congress

Some angry army officers circulated a letter in March 1783. What did the letter say?

If their demands were not met, the letter said, the army should refuse to disband

They would go home and tell people to stop listening to Congress

They would go join the British army if Congress did not meet their demands

If Congress tried to bring in a new king for the United States that they would fight

General Washington was shocked and worried by the letter. What did he realize?

He realized that such an action could lead to a revolt that would threaten to destroy the new nation

That he would have to try and escape to Canada to save himself

That this was his chance to become the king of the United States of America

That Britain would immediately return and reconquer all of their old colonies

What did Washington persuade his officers to do?

To create a new country with him as king

What did Washington urge Congress to do?

He urged Congress to meet the soldiers’ just demands

He urged them NOT to pay the soldiers

He urged Congress to make amendments to the Articles of Confederation

What allowed George Washington to at last give up his command of the army?

When British troops left New York City in late November 1783. The war had truly ended.

When the last British soldiers in the U.S. had been captured and put in prison

When he had been elected as the first U.S. president

When Congress had agreed to pay the army

What did George Washington SAY to a meeting of the Second Continental Congress when he was resigning from the army?

“Having now finished the work assigned me I retire...and take my leave of all the employments of public life.”

"If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman"

"If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.”

“No man has ever listened himself out of a job.”

What did Washington plan to do after returning to his home, Mount Vernon, in time for Christmas?

He planned to live quietly with his family

He became a delegate for VA to the Continental Congress

He moved into the Ohio River Valley and founded Ohio

He became a colonel in the Virginia Militia

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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

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

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30 sec • 1 pt

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

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

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30 sec • 1 pt

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.

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The War Is Won - Revolutionary War American Revolution

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

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

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

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

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

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

What was the FINAL Treaty of Paris?

When was the FINAL Treaty of Paris signed?

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

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

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