American Revolution Week 3 Vocabulary Quiz

Winter camp of General George Washington and army during the Revolutionary War in 1777-1778. Troops suffered from cold and lack of supplies. Many deserted until aided by Baron von Steuben who trained the American men.

• Valley Forge
• Battle of Saratoga

• Yorktown, Virginia

• Fort Sumter

Turning point of the American Revolution because American victory led the French to decide to join the Revolutionary War on the American side.

• Battle of Saratoga

• War of 1812

• U.S. - Mexican War

• Battle of Gettysburg

Allowing various religious practices; reason for establishment of some colonies.

• Religious toleration

• Intolerable Acts

• Quakers

• Magna Carta

Distance from Britain, First Great Awakening, John Locke's beliefs, colonists wanted to continue freedoms from England.

• Reasons for growth of representative/self-government

• Urbanization

• Reconstruction

• Amendment

First anti-slavery group in colonies; religious group founded in Pennsylvania based on religious toleration.

• Quakers

• Consent of the Governed

• American System

• Intolerable Acts

Wrote Declaration of Independence; 3rd president; purchased Louisiana Territory.

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

• King George III

• Benjamin Franklin

Wrote Common Sense pamphlet to encourage American independence.

• Thomas Paine

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• Thomas Edison

Leader of the Continental Army; first President of the United States.

• George Washington

• Andrew Jackson

• George Mason

• John Paul Jones

Led Continental Navy during the American Revolution; founder of the America Navy.

• John Paul Jones

• Charles de Montesquieu

• William Blackstone

• Marquis de Lafayette

Patriot famous for quote, "Give me liberty or give me death!"

• Patrick Henry

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Alexander Hamilton