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Questions
1. The American Revolution began as a war of independence. What did it turn into?
2. Many Americans sided with the British in the conflict. How was this strikingly reflected by the men of New York?
3. What frustrated British hopes that Loyalists would prove effective allies?
4. What strict measures were used by Washington and his officers to conduct a disciplined army?
5. How did Congress entice men to enlist in the Continental Army?
6. What is one of the "unusual aspects" of the Revolutionary war?
7. Why were the British more successful recruiting Indian warriors than the Americans?
8. How did one Marylander at the Battle of Long Island describe the horrors of war?
9. What were two important byproducts of Thomas Paine's The American Crisis?
10. How did the victories at Princeton and Trenton save the cause of independence and shift the war's momentum?
11. What was one of Washington's "greatest strategic accomplishments" achieved off the battlefield?
12. Why was the American victory at the Battle of Saratoga a strategic turning point in the war?
13. What transpired at Valley Forge before the end of the winter of 1777-78?
14. The main conflict in the Revolutionary war was in the east. What was the other war? What was the long term effect of this conflict?
15. Upon what assumption was Britain's "southern strategy" based?
16. What three developments undermined this strategy?
17. What type of atrocities were committed by Tory militiamen in the southern back-country? How did the Patriots respond?
18. How did the Battle of King's Mountain resemble an extended family feud?
19. Your author writes that "Spain, like France, forged an alliance with the United States." Why is this untrue?
20. What two important contributions to America's victory over Britain were made by Spain's General Bernardo De Gálvez?
21. The British surrender at Yorktown secured America's independence. Yet for some Americans it meant a return to slavery. Explain.
22. How did British statesman Edmund Burke describe the emergence of the United States an an independent nation?
23. What punishments were visited on the Loyalists during and after the Revolution?
24. What became of the 80,000 refugees who fled the United States during and after the Revolution?
25. How did John Adams characterize the real source of the American Revolution?