American Revolution Map Mapping America

1. 
   Locate with a dot, then label: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Halifax, Valley Forge
   
2. 
   Locate with an X, then label, noting also the dates of battle: Saratoga, Yorktown, Lexington, Concord, Bunker Hill, Brooklyn Heights, Princeton, Trenton, Charleston, Brandywine, Camden, King’s Mountain, Germantown, Guilford Courthouse, Cowpens.
   
3. 
   Draw a bold line tracing the Proclamation Line of 1763.
   
4. 
   Use varied shadings to identify, then label these territorial claims in North America following the Treaty of Paris 1783: (1) original 13 states of the US, (2) United States territory, (3) British territory, (4) Spanish territory.
   

1. 
   When the British troops left Boston in 1776 they went to _____________, and when they invaded New York later that year they came from ______________.
   
2. 
   How are the locations of American battles with Native Americans during the Revolutionary War geographically related to American battles with the British Army?
   
3. 
   IN what colony did Revolutionary War fighting begin in 1775?
   
4. 
   What 3 states saw most military campaigning in 1776-1777?
   
5. 
   What 3 states saw most military campaigning in 1780-1781?
   
6. 
   Which side found it easier to utilize the Atlantic to move its troops and supplies in the Revolutionary war?
   

KEY
Reading the Map

1. 
   Halifax, Nova Scotia; Halifax
   
2. 
   Battles fought between British and American troops occurred further east than the Indian battles, which were closer to the trans-Appalachian frontier. American victories there opened the area to rapid settlement after the Revolutionary War.
   
3. 
   Massachusetts
   
4. 
   New York, Jew Jersey, and Pennsylvania
   
5. 
   North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia
   
6. 
   Except in the Yorktown campaign (where it was critical), their naval strength allowed the British to freely move their troops and supplies along the Atlantic coast.