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“America: The Story of Us; Revolution”

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Name: ______________________________

Date: _______________________

Directions: Read each question below. Write your answers on this sheet. If you need more space, use a separate sheet of paper. Make sure to include all information necessary for a complete answer. This assignment is due at the end of class today.

1. What does the British/ Colonists exchange for Rum with Africa (1 pt.)?

2. What percent of Boston’s population is black (1 pt.)?

3. What is the purpose of the First Continental Congress (1 pt.)?

4. Who made up America’s first military (1 pt.)?

5. How many minutemen were killed in the Battle of Lexington(1 pt.)? _______ Wounded (1 pt.)? ______

6. Who is the commander of the “Rebel” Army (1 pt.)?

7. Under British law, what is the penalty for treason (1 pt.)?

8. (38:00 – 42:55) General Burgoyne begins to push his army south through Canada – through Saratoga - after burning New York. What type of campaign does Professor Richard Slotkin say Burgoyne’s forces find themselves in? General George Washington uses “a new kind of soldier” against Burgoyne’s troops. What tactics did these soldiers use? (Hint: Daniel Morgan led these soldiers.) (3 points)

9. (42:55 – 52:52) Why does the narrator say “technology (was) on (the Patriot’s) side”? Why does Daniel Morgan order his soldiers to kill Native American scouts first? Near Saratoga, how do Morgan’s soldiers “break the rules of 18th century warfare”? What were the results of using this tactic? (3 points)

10. (56:20 – 58:57) What medical condition affected Patriot soldiers in 1777? Why did this condition affect them so terribly? What was “Washington’s gamble” to try to cure this condition? What effect did his “gamble” have on the situation? (3 points)

11. (1:04:15 – 1:06:30) Name two (2) of the four (4) things the French general Baron von Steuben does to improve the fighting ability of General Washington’s troops. What tactics does he teach “an elite corps of 100 men” to use? What “new and deadly” weapon does he introduce to the Patriot soldiers that “prove pivotal in the battles ahead”? (3 points)

12. (1:15:00 – 1:20:37) How had Washington’s army “reinvented itself” since its formation in 1776? What were the British officers worried the Patriots might capture and use against them at Yorktown? (Hint: The British said this would force them to surrender.) What role did von Steuben’s training play at the Battle of Yorktown? (von Steuben was the French general from Valley Forge.) (3 points)

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