Across
- 2. Served as an Iroquois interpreter in the Ohio Valley during the war
- 4. Loyalist Franklin
- 5. Known by the British as Joseph Brant
- 6. People who supported the Continental Congress and the fight for American independence
- 7. People who remained loyal to the king and the British government
- 11. George Washington took pity upon the family’s plight and gave her a pass to rejoin her husband in New York
- 15. Proclamation offered emancipation to enslaved people with Patriot enslavers if they agreed to serve the British Army in some capacity
- 18. George Washington promoted her to the title of “Sergeant Molly”
- 19. Covertly sailed through British-controlled waters to capture British General Richard Prescott as a prisoner of war
- 21. Congress voted to create the this army on June 14, 1775
- 22. served in the British Army as a personal servant and messenger, twice narrowly escaping re-enslavement
- 23. Governor to whom the Oneida Declaration of Neutrality was sent
- 24. These warriors destroyed American settlements in Georgia and assisted with British attacks in South Carolina, including the Siege of Savannah
Down
- 1. A regular payment made as a reward for past service, often by the government
- 2. Nickname for women who traveled back and forth from a nearby spring to bring soldiers water during battle
- 3. Deployed as a spy, he was ineligible for emancipation under The Virginia Act of 1783
- 8. Petition that was the final attempt to avoid war between the Thirteen Colonies and Great Britain
- 9. Number of primary documents linked to in today’s readings
- 10. Black Americans who actively supported the American Revolution and who was killed in the Boston Massacre
- 12. Tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy with members fighting on both sides of the conflict
- 13. And feathering
- 14. Wife of John Adams
- 16. The Black soldiers who served in the Revolution fought in racially integrated companies—the last black American soldiers to do so until this war
- 17. Percent of the colonial population remaining loyal to Britain and King George III
- 20. Many Native Americans perceived the Revolutionary War as what type of war
- 24. This surged in popularity throughout the colonies in large part due to boycotts on tea
