American Revolution

Question 1

Which one of these facts about African Americans in the Revolution is FALSE?

Accepted Answer

All black slaves who served in the war on were freed

Question 2

Who is the group being depicted in this British cartoon?

Accepted Answer

The Sons of Liberty

Question 3

The last major battle of the war...

Accepted Answer

Was an American victory at Yorktown, Virginia

Question 4

Who was left out of the egalitarian (equal) American society at the end of the war?

Accepted Answer

women, all of these, men without property, blacks

Question 5

How did the end of the war effect loyalists?

Accepted Answer

many were forced to flee to Canada

Question 6

The British hired ____________ to help fight the war in the American colonies

Accepted Answer

Hessians

Question 7

What is the significance of the Battle of Bunker Hill?

Accepted Answer

Its considered to be the bloodiest battle of the war.

Question 8

Which of the following was NOT a British strength during the American Revolution?

Accepted Answer

a supportive populace at home

Question 9

Where did the first battle of the American Revolution take place?

Accepted Answer

Lexington and Concord

Question 10

Why did the American colonists resist the Stamp Act of 1765?

Accepted Answer

it was a direct tax, only their assemblies could tax them

Question 11

What was NOT the main strategy of the British during the war?

Accepted Answer

use guerrilla attacks against Washington's army

Question 12

Who was the young French nobleman that served in both the American & French Revolutions?

Accepted Answer

Marquis de Lafayette

Question 13

Who was the Prussian officer that trained Washington's army at Valley Forge?

Accepted Answer

Friedrich von Steuben

Question 14

About how many Americans died in the war?

Accepted Answer

25,000

Question 15

What part of the Treaty of Paris (1783) did the British neglect to honor?

Accepted Answer

they refused to abandon their frontier forts

Question 16

Which subject was taken out of the original draft of the Declaration of Independence?

Accepted Answer

the slave trade

Question 17

What was the last declaration of grievances that the colonists provided to the King?

Accepted Answer

The Olive Branch Petition

Question 18

The Americans were fighting to have their opinions & grievances heard originally.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 19

What was the biggest killer of the war?

Accepted Answer

disease

Question 20

Who was the Virginia delegate to Congress that proposed declaring independence in June 1776?

Accepted Answer

Richard Henry Lee

Question 21

What is the philosophy expressed in the 2nd paragraph of the Declaration of Independence?

Accepted Answer

John Locke’s theory of Natural Rights

Question 22

The Culper Ring was the most famous rebel spy organization of the war. Where was is located?

Accepted Answer

New York City, NY

Question 23

Which battles helped Washington keep the war going after his disaster at Long Island (New York) in 1776?

Accepted Answer

Trenton and Princeton

Question 24

Who was the Massachusetts woman who, disguised as a man, served in the Continental Army?

Accepted Answer

Deborah Sampson

Question 25

What method/innovation helped the American rebels win independence ?

Accepted Answer

Washington having the army inoculated for smallpox, The use of the rifled musket, An active rebel spy network, the use of guerrilla warfare

Question 26

Which of the following is NOT true about the Boston Tea Party?

Accepted Answer

It was the 1st overt act of protest in Massachusetts Bay

Question 27

Why did British soldiers fire into a crowd of Bostonians, killing five, on March 5, 1770?

Accepted Answer

because the crowd harassed and threatened the soldiers

Question 28

Women in the American Revolution often acted as…

Accepted Answer

nurses and surgeons, spies and messengers, all of these, suppliers to the armies

Question 29

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

Accepted Answer

More than 90% of Americans were Patriots

Question 30

What was most significant of the Battle of Saratoga?

Accepted Answer

it was the turningpoint; the French agreed to help the USA

Question 31

In Thomas Paine's Common Sense, what was the main argument for Americans to consider?

Accepted Answer

The ideals of republicanism and democracy

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