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