CH 7 Section 5

Independence

George Rogers Clark

• Young frontiersman who organized the Patriot (American) western campaign.

Kaskaskia and Cahokia were British trading villages in the West that surrendered to George Rogers Clark

without a fight.

Quamino Dolly

• A Slave in Georgia who showed the British a secret trail allowing them to capture the port of Savannah.

Fighting with swift hit-and-run attacks is called Guerilla Warfare.

Benedict Arnold

• Was a Patriot war hero before he became one of the most famous traitors in history.

Yorktown won the Revolutionary War for the Patriots.

The Treaty of Paris (1783) officially ended the Revolutionary War.