Apush Chapter 8 Terms

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1. A tall, powerfully built, dignified Virginia planter that was chosen to head the hastily improvised army besieging Boston. He was a great moral force rather than a great military mind.

2. A general and adversary of George Washington. He did not speedily crush the demoralized American forces and did not relish the rigors of winter campaigning.

3. A Quaker-reared tactician that distinguished himself by his strategy of delay in the Carolina campaign of 1781. Standing and then retreating, he exhausted his foe, General Charles Cornwallis.

4. Led a tiny American force with Ethan Allen that surprised and captured the British garrisons at Ticonderoga and Crown Point.

5. An actor-playwright soldier that led the main invading force to push down the Lake Champlain route from Canada.

6. A British general that had fallen back to Chesapeake Bay at Yorktown to await seaborne supplies and reinforcements. He eventually surrendered his entire force of seven thousand men on October 19, 1781.

7. Author of Common Sense in 1776, one of the most influential pamphlets ever written.

8. Commanded a small British force that would come in from the west by way of Lake Ontario and the Mohawk Valley in the British attempt to capture the Hudson valley in 1777.

9. An audacious frontiersman that conceived the idea of seizing the forts by surprise. In 1778-1779 he floated down the Ohio River with about 175 men and captured in quick succession the forts Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and Vincennes.

10. A man from Virginia that stated that “these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states” on June 7, 1776. The passing of Lee’s resolution was the formal “declaration” of independence by the colonies

11. An American general that forced Burgoyne to surrender his force at Saratoga on October 17, 1777.

12. A daring and hard-fighting young Scotsman officer. Made a chief contribution in...