This group was opposed to the separation from England and tried to stop the war.
Torries
Whigs
Second Continental Congress
Hessians
This man led a successful guerilla campaign against British forces in the Ohio River Valley, on the western edge of the colonies.
John Burgoyne
Marquis de Lafayette
George Rogers Clark
Nathaniel Green
At this crucial battle, the main British army was forced to surrender after it was trapped between the US army & the French Navy.
Monmouth
Saratoga
Bunker Hill
Yorktown
When the war began, the US didn't really have a navy, but it did have these.
Mercenaries
Loyalists
Privateers
Hessians
The King's government rejected this last-gasp effort by Congress to avoid a full scale war.
The Declaration of Independence
The Treay of Paris
The Townshend Acts
The Olive Branch Petition
These foreign soldiers fought for the British and were very much hated by the American soldiers.
the Privateers
the Hessians
the Whigs
thr Torries
This British general was shot & killed by US guerillas as his forces were defeated in the wilderness near Saratoga in 1777.
Charles Cornwallis
Ethan Allen
Nathaniel Green
John Burgoyne
This battle near Boston was technically a defeat for the US, but it proved that the US forces could succefully fight the British army in a large battle.
Bunker Hill
Saratoga
Yorktown
Lexington & Concord
This American leader frustrated British forces that were trying to take cotrol of the southern colonies to separate them from the northern rebellion.
Ethan Allen
George Washington
Nathaniel Green
George Rogers Clark
This group chose Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence and became the firs government of the United States.