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- Phase Two of the American Revolution (1776-1778) focused primarily on this region of North America?
- In May 1775, this American colony issued the Mecklenburg Resolves?
- did the north and south really know what they were fighting for?
- During the American Revolution, all of the states (former colonies) passed these acts which gave the right to seize loyalist land and property?
- Who assisted the American cause by training the Continental Army in European military tactic during the winter of 1778?
- The British amassed thirty-two thousand troops on State Island, New York in June 1776 under the command of this man?
- True or False: Hessians were German Mercenaries hired by the British to fight the American Colonies.
- In the April 1775 raid of the Massachusetts countryside, arrest warrants were issued for John Hancock and this other radical Son of Liberty?
- True or False: Approximately one-fifth of the colonial population was enslaved in 1776.
- Which general realized that to defeat the Lord Cornwallis in South Carolina, he did not have to win a single battle, so long as he remained the field to attack isolated British Forces?
- True or False: William Franklin, Benjamin Franklin's only surviving son, remained loyal to the Crown and Empire during the American Revolution.
- In April 1775, General Gage ordered British Troops to seize a powder magazine in this Massachusetts town?
- George Washington broke military tradition when he launched a winter attach against the British in December 1776 at this location?
- Phase three of the American Revolution (1778-1783) focused primarily on this region of North America?
- True or False: Lord Dunmore attempted to enlist slaves into the British Army in 1775.
- Who was considered the British architect of the war strategy in the American Revolution?
- The colonial slogan "no taxation without representation" was first uttered in protest against this Parliamentary act?
- Many scholars claim this man was the first casualty of the war for independence when he died at the Boston Massacre.
- The British surrendered a force of over five thousand to the Americans at this battle in 1777?
- British Parliament responded to the repeal of the Stamp Act by issuing this act?