U.S. History: Chapter 6.3 & 6.4 Test

"An attempt to force surrender by blocking the movement of people or goods into or out of a place" is the definition of ___

• Ambush

• Pursue

• Siege

• Entrench

___To approve

• Ambush

• Strategy

• Siege

• Pursue

___to proceed with

• Ambush

• Siege

• Strategy

• Pursue

___Pro-British Mohawk leader who devastated the New York and Pennsylvania frontiers in 1778. Led Indian resistance against settlers and organized the northwestern Indians in an alliance.

• George Washington

• Comte de Rochambeau

• George Rogers Clark

• Chief Joesph Brant

___Leader of a small Patriot force that captured British-controlled Kaskaskia and Fort Vincennes in the Ohio Valley in 1779., secured the Northwest Territory for America

• John Jay

• George Rogers Clark

• Comte de Rochambeau

• Charles Cornwallis

___American naval commander in the American Revolution (1747-1792) said " I have not yet begun to fight."

• George Rogers Clark

• Marquis de Lafayette

• John Paul Jones

• Charles Cornwallis

___British siege of a town in South Carolina, in May 1780, in which the Americans suffered their worst defeat of the war

• Yorktown

• Valley Forge

• Battle of Kings Mountain

• Battle of Charles Town (Charleston)

___South Carolina militia leader nicknamed the "Swamp Fox" for his hit-and-run attacks on the British during the American Revolution.

• George Rogers Clark

• Benajamin Franklin

• Francis Marion

• Chief Joseph Brant

___Commanding general of the British forces that were defeated at Yorktown in 1781, ending the American Revolution.

• Horatio Gates

• Marquis de Lafayette

• Comte de Rochambeau

• Charles Cornwallis

___This treaty ended the Revolutionary War, recognized the independence of the American colonies, and granted the colonies the territory from the southern border of Canada to the northern border of Florida, and from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River

• Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty of Paris

• Treaty of Geneva

• Treaty of London