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**Terms to Master - Chapter 6

Listed below are some important people or terms with which you should be familiar after your study of the chapter. Identify each name or term to which you have been assigned.

1. General William Howe - Anthony 2. George Washington - Anthony 3.** //**The American Crisis** // **- Anthony 4. Hessians - Bunton 5. Whigs - Bunton 6. Tories - Bunton 7. redcoats - Curtis 8. militia - Curtis 9. Continental army - Luchak 10. Battle of Saratoga - Luchak 11. Henry Clinton - Magaziner 12. Baron von Steuben - Magaziner 13. George Rogers Clark - Morris 14. Horatio Gates - Morris 15. Lord Cornwallis - Parks 16. Battle of King’s Mountain - Parks 17. Benedict Arnold - Saidman 18. John Paul Jones - Saidman**



**19. Battle of Yorktown - Seeberger

The Siege of Yorktown or Battle of Yorktown in 1781 was a decisive victory by combined assault of American forces led by General George Washington and French forces led by General Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by General Lord Cornwallis. It proved to be the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War, as the surrender of Cornwallis’s army. The French and American troops were supported by a French fleet under de Grasse, that reached Yorktown at August 30 that forced the British to give up efforts to support General Cornwallis' by sea. Furthermore, de Grasse sent down vessels to the Cheasapeake to ferry down the allied armies, thereby bringing the total American and French forces to more than 16,000 troops facing 7,200 British soldiers. The siege of Yorktown soon began, and on October 19, 7,000 men marched out of Yorktown and the total British army surrendered to General Washington. The fate of the war was decided at Yorktown, and it finally vanquished the British hopes of winning the war. On February 27 1782, the House of Commons voted against the continuation of the war. It caused the British opinion that the effort of trying to put the colonies back under control was not worth it, and hte British turned towards peace negotiations. **

**20. Peace of Paris - Seeberger 21. Republican ideology - Villamor 22. John Trumbull - Villamor**