American Revolution

Question 1

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

one person

Answer 1

Thomas Jefferson

Question 2

What was the first event of the American Revolution?

Answer 2

Boston Massacre

Question 3

Who was the president of the Continental Congress?

Answer 3

John Hancock

Question 4

Who was the leader of Britain?

Answer 4

George III

Question 5

Where was the “shot heard ‘round the world?”

Answer 5

Lexington and Concord

Question 6

What was the turning point of the war?

Answer 6

Saratoga

Question 7

Which side did Benedict Arnold fight for?

Answer 7

Colonies and the switched to the British

Question 8

Who said “Liberty, or Death!”

Answer 8

Patrick Henry

Question 9

Who came to help the Continental Army?

Answer 9

Marquis de Lafayette (French)

Question 10

Who made the first American Flag?

Answer 10

Betsy Ross

Question 11

Who was the leader of the Continental Army?

Answer 11

George Washington

Question 12

Why did the American Revolution Start?

Answer 12

Taxes

Question 13

Who surrendered to end the war?

Answer 13

Charles Cornwallis

Question 14

“One if by land, two if by sea” refers to…

Answer 14

Signal of British attack

Question 15

Famous winter camp of the Continental Army where many soldiers threatened to desert.

Answer 15

Valley Forge

Question 16

Britain’s reason for charging taxes from
the colonists

Answer 16

To pay for the French & Indian War

Question 17

Location of the Proclamation Line of 1763

Answer 17

Appellation Mountains

Question 18

Event instigated by colonists throwing “snowballs” at the British soldiers

there was also stones and peices of oyster shells in the snow

Answer 18

Boston Massacre

Question 19

Created as a result of the Boston Tea Party, it “grounded” Boston.

Answer 19

Coercive / Intolerbal acts

Question 20

Which exchange of fire was the result of the British trying to steal a colonial arsenal?

Answer 20

Lexington & Concord

Question 21

The British and French were fighting over this in the Ohio Valley

Answer 21

fur trade

Question 22

The French decided to support the colonists after this battle.

Answer 22

Saratoga

Question 23

General forced to surrender at Yorktown.

Answer 23

Cornwallis

Question 24

The French navy blockaded Chesapeake Bay causing this.

Answer 24

Surrender @ Yorktown

Question 25

Strategy used by the colonists to resist British military tactics.

Answer 25

Guerrilla Warfare | Hard to defeat, Lined up behind trees, ambush the enemy, disappeared

Question 26

Who was the Declaration of Independence Directed towards?

Answer 26

King George III / Britain

Question 27

Name the four parts of the Declaration.

Answer 27

Preamble, natural rights, British wrongs, Declaration

Question 28

Life and liberty are references to what?

Answer 28

natural rights

Question 29

This idea was in both the Declaration and in the Treaty of Paris.

Answer 29

US Independence

Question 30

Which Enlightenment principle was the basis of the Declaration?

Answer 30

Natural Rights

Question 31

Lead attorney representing the British officers after the Boston Massacre.

Answer 31

John Adams

Question 32

Author of the Declaration of Independence

Answer 32

Tomas Jefferson

Question 33

Author of 'Common Sense'

Answer 33

Tomas Paine

Question 34

Colonial militia in Massachusetts

Answer 34

Minutemen

Question 35

Mercenaries ambushed at Trenton.

Answer 35

Hessians / Hessian Soldiers

Question 36

Writers of the Declaration of Independence | 5 people

Answer 36

Tomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert R. Livingston

Question 37

What did Tomas Jefferson suggest each colony create

Answer 37

Committee of Correspondence

Question 38

What were the Committee of Correspondence for

Answer 38

to unify colonial responses to Britain's actions

Question 39

What was 'Common Sense' suggesting

Answer 39

that British control was bad for the colonies, colonist didn't owe allegiance to the British and monarchy was wrong

Question 40

What did the British do after the Boston Tea Party

Answer 40

Punished Massachusetts by limiting colonist rights to town meeting

Question 41

What enlightenment thinker's ideas of social contract were used in the writing of the Declaration of Independence

Answer 41

John Locke

Question 42

Signaled the start of the Revolution

Answer 42

Lexington & Concord

Question 43

When he reteated to the Yorktown Peninsua to protect supply lines | Lead to defeat of the British

Answer 43

Cornwallis's Mastake

Question 44

British was traped at Yorktown by

Answer 44

a blockade of French warships

Question 45

What ended the war between the Colonist and the British

Answer 45

The Tready of Paris

Question 46

British repealed Townshend Acts, sevral colonist were wounded/killed, contrinutied to start of Revolutionary War

Answer 46

Boston Massacure

Question 47

Major reason for conflict where the French feared loss of the fur trading in the Ohio Valley

Answer 47

Conflict between Great Britian & France

Question 48

Military stratagy baised on knowledge of land and terrain

Answer 48

Strenghth of Colonial Army

Question 49

Represented British Soldiers in court after the Boston Massacure

Answer 49

John Adams

Question 50

Turning point of war, promted French to join the Patriots

Answer 50

Sargatoga

Question 50

listed King George III's misdeeds, asseted citizens' rights and declared people's rights to overthrow government | Made of preamble, natrual rghts, wrongdoings, by king and independence

Answer 50

Delcaration of Independence

Question 50

Why did Parlament raised taxes in colonies after 1763

Answer 50

Pay for the French & Indian War