The Initial Fighting in the War Occurred in New England;

The initial fighting in the war occurred in New England; most engagements in the two years after the Declaration of Independence took place in ________; and the conflict in the later war years raged across ________.

A) the Chesapeake; the Hudson valley
B) the Chesapeake; the Carolinas and Georgia
C) the middle states (New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) ; the Carolinas and Virginia
D) the port towns in the middle states (New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) ; the backcountry