4.3 & 4.4 - Battlegrounds Shift/Final Years

Why did the British feel they would have more success fighting in the South?

• It was easier to fight in a warmer climate.

• The Continental Army would have difficulty getting supplies.

• They would be able to enlist the help of enslaved Africans.

• There were many loyalists in the South.

Why did some Native Americans side with the British during the Revolutionary War?

• The British seemed less of a threat than the Americans.

• The British forced Native Americans to help them.

• The Americans had no money to pay Native Americans.

• The British lived among Native Americans and took their land.

More Native Americans fought on the side of the British than with the Americans during the American Revolution.

• True

• False

Which Patriot's famous words were "I have not yet begun to fight"?

• Paul Revere

• John Paul Jones

• Thomas Paine

Match the following

• Privateers

• hit-and-run war technique

• Francis Marion

• British General who took thousands of prisoners at Charles Town.

• Henry Clinton

• merchant warships

• Guerrilla Warfare

• Patriot leader known as the Swamp Fox

• Bernardo de Galvez

• Spanish governor of Louisiana who helped ship ammunition to the Northwest territory.

The British decided to concentrate their efforts in the South partly because the South had many Loyalists.

• True

• False

What technique did Francis Marion, the “Swamp Fox,” use to defeat British forces in the South?

• naval blockades

• hit-and-run tactics

• two attacks at the same time

• marching straight at British lines

After realizing he could not conquer the Carolinas, Cornwallis retreated to what area?  

• Savannah, Georgia

• Boston, Massachusetts

• Yorktown, Virginia

• Raleigh, North Carolina

Match each item with the correct statement below.

• to approve officially

• Treaty of Paris

• British commander at Yorktown

• ratify

• French commander

• Charles Cornwallis

• Sept/1783, document says America Wins

• Comte de Rochambeau

Which foreign troops helped defeat British forces at Yorktown?

• African

• French

• German

• Spanish