American Revolution Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. The Provincial Congress of NC was a _____ body created to govern NC during the American Revolution by the Patriots.
  2. 5. The Hessians were these types of paid foreign soldiers from Germany.
  3. 6. George Washington was the leader of the Army of the _______, and supreme commander of the Continental Army.
  4. 7. Americans who supported the _____ were known as loyalists.
  5. 8. American Patriots favored this
  6. 9. These solutions signed by NC's Provincial Congress were the first official calls for independence from Great Britain in the colonies.
  7. 11. The Overmountain Men defeated a group of these people at the Battle of King's Mountain.
  8. 12. Francis Marion's nickname
  9. 13. The Declaration of independence was signed on the 4th day of this month.
Down
  1. 1. Nathaniel Greene helped defeat the British by driving them away from these
  2. 2. He wrote the Declaration of Independence (Last Name).
  3. 4. He surrendered the British Army to George Washington following the Siege of Yorktown (last name).
  4. 10. He led the NC Militia to victory at the Battle of Moores' Creek Bridge (Last Name).