USI6 American Revolution

Question 1

This founding father was an inventor, a scientist and was known for the great compromiser.

Accepted Answer

Ben Franklin

Question 2

This patriot was an artist and was one of the writers that warned " The British are Coming"

Accepted Answer

Paul Revere

Question 3

This patriot organized the Boston Tea Party

Accepted Answer

Sam Adams

Question 4

Which founding father said "give me liberty or give me death"?

Accepted Answer

Patrick Henry

Question 5

This event was a protest against the tax on tea.

Accepted Answer

Boston Tea Party

Question 6

Who wrote Common Sense?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Paine

Question 7

The leader of the British Army that surrendered at Yorktown

Accepted Answer

Lord Cornwallis

Question 8

This was known as the first major battle of the Revolutionary War.

Accepted Answer

Battle of Bunker Hill

Question 9

The general of the colonial army who Lord Cornwallis surrendered to at The Siege of Yorktown

Accepted Answer

George Washington

Question 10

What was the final battle of the Revolutionary War?

Accepted Answer

Yorktown

Question 11

What non-colonial military leader was with George Washington at the battle of Yorktown?

Accepted Answer

Marquis de Lafayette

Question 12

What law prevented colonists from settling in the Ohio River Vally?

Accepted Answer

Proclamation of 1763

Question 13

Who was the founding father who crafted the Declaration of Independence?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Jefferson

Question 14

This battle took place on the Hudson River and was known as the turning point of the war.

Accepted Answer

Battle of Saratoga

Question 15

Believed in the rule of law, this founding father represented soldiers from the Boston Massacre

Accepted Answer

John Adams

Question 16

British law that taxed tea and made colonists buy tea from England.

Accepted Answer

Tea Act

Question 17

What event was known as "the shot heard around the world"?

Accepted Answer

Battle of Lexington and Concord

Question 18

Who was the leader of Great Britain during the American Revolution?

Accepted Answer

King George III

Question 19

What was used to signal that the British were coming?

Accepted Answer

Lanterns in the Old North Church

Question 20

What revolutionary battle marked the turning point in the was for the colonial army?

Accepted Answer

Saratoga

Question 21

British called this 'The Incident on Kings Street' but the colonists had another name for it.

Accepted Answer

The Boston Massacre

Question 22

This poet was a slave.

Accepted Answer

Phillis Wheatley

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