Winning the Revolution

Place: City in southeastern Pennsylvania that was the capital of the United States from 1790 to 1800

• Fort Ticonderoga

• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• Trenton, New Jersey

• Saratoga, New York

Places: Fort on Lake Champlain in northeastern New York, site of major battles in the American Revolution.

• Valley Forge

• Fort Vincennes

• Fort Ticonderoga

• Trenton

Place: Capital of New Jersey, site of an important battle in the American Revolution in 1776.

• Philadelphia

• Trenton

• Saratoga

• Valley Forge

Place: Village in northeastern New York, site of a major Patriot victory in 1777 during the American Revolution.

• Saratoga

• Fort Ticonderoga

• Savannah

• Fort Vincennes

Place: Site in southeastern Pennsylvania where George Washington and the Continental Army camped during the winter of 1777 and 1778

• Valley Forge

• Yorktown

• Fort Vincennes

• Philadelphia

Place: Port city on the coast of Georgia

• Saratoga

• Philadelphia

• Yorktown

• Savannah

Fort on the site of present-day Vincennes, Indiana

• Fort Ticonderoga

• Fort Vincennes

• Fort Sumter

• Fort Yorktown

Town in southeastern Virginia near Chesapeake Bay, site of the last major battle of the American Revolution.

• Trenton

• Savannah

• Yorktown

• Philadelphia

Vocabulary: Treaty signed in 1783 that officially ended the American Revolution. Great Britain recognized the United States as an independent country.

• Treaty of Paris

• Declaration of Independence

• Constitution of the United States

• Bill of Rights

People: 1738 - 1805 - Commanding general of the British forces that were defeated at Yorktown in 1781, ending the American Revolution

• Friedrich von Steuben

• John Hancock

• Thomas Paine

• Charles Cornwallis