American Revolution Part 1

Question 1

What is the shot heard around the world that started the American Revolution - where was it fired from?

Answer 1

Lexington

Question 2

What is the name of the unit of Black troops recruited by the Virginia governor from colonial plantations, who were offered freedom if they fought for the British Army?

Answer 2

Ethiopian Corp

Question 3

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 3

Thomas Jefferson

Question 4

What was one of the forts captured by American forces, near Lake Champlain, whose cannons were used to drive the British forces out of Boston?

Answer 4

Ft. Ticonderoga

Question 5

Who was the general that took over leadership of British forces in America? (After the disaster at Bunker Hill.)

Answer 5

General William Howe

Question 6

What was the name of the organization of delegates who voted to organize an army and named a commander-in-chief of the army?

Answer 6

2nd Continental Congress

Question 7

What were the name of the colonist who vowed to be ready to fight in a minute’s notice?

Answer 7

Minutemen

Question 8

What British general ordered a secret assault on the storage of arms and ammunition at Concord?

Answer 8

General Thomas Gage

Question 9

Who was one of the riders that warned the colonist that the British were marching on Concord, Massachusetts?

Answer 9

Paul Revere

Question 10

What political idea allowed people to have the right to change an unfair government?

Answer 10

Social Contract

Question 11

Where were cannons placed near Boston that forced the British to evacuate that city and go to Canada?

Answer 11

Dorchester Heights

Question 12

What was the name of the pamphlet written by Thomas Pain, that tired to persuade the colonist to seek independence?

Answer 12

Common Sense

Question 13

Which plea of the Continental delegates to King George solved the problems between the Colonies and the British Parliament?

Answer 13

The Olive Branch Petition

Question 14

What was the name given to those who wished to remain subjects of the King?

Answer 14

Loyalist

Question 15

What was the name given to those colonist who favored independence?

Answer 15

Patriots

Question 16

What was the name given to the revolution of ideals, to rational thinking and scientific inquiry?

Answer 16

The Enlightenment

Question 17

Who was the man chosen as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army?

Answer 17

George Washington

Question 18

What was the name of the colonial army that captured the cannons from forts located near Lake Champlain and then transported to Boston?

Answer 18

Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys

Question 19

Who was the slave woman, named after a slave ship, learned to read English, Greek, Latin and wrote a book of poems?

Answer 19

Phillis Wheatley

Question 20

What was the name given to the right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as stated by John Locke?

Answer 20

Natural Rights

Question 21

What was the official regular army of the colonies called?

Answer 21

The Continental Army

Question 22

Which woman that encouraged John Adams to “remember the ladies” in the development of a free government?

Answer 22

Abigail Adams

Question 23

What was the Preamble, theories of government and the reasons for separation all included in?

Answer 23

The Declaration of Independence

Question 24

What name was given to the mercenary troops from Germany hired by the the British to fight the Americans?

Answer 24

Hessians

Question 25

What name was given to the Monarch of English as the Revolutionary War began?

Answer 25

King George III

Question 26

What name was given to the first colonial regiment that fought as a non-segregated unit where both white and black soldiers fought with great distinction?

Answer 26

1st Rhode Island

Question 27

Which era of religious revivalism in the 1730’s and 1740’s was where colonist began to question their religion, social and political standings?

Answer 27

The Great Awakening

Question 28

Who were the two black men that fought with distinction at the Battle of Bunker Hill?

Answer 28

Peter Salem and Salem Poor

Question 29

Who was the woman that disguised herself as a Continental soldier and went on one of the first female speaking tours?

Answer 29

Deborah Sampson

Question 30

Who was the woman that served water to the fighting continental troops only to find herself fighting with men in an artillery unit at Battle of Monmouth Courthouse?

Answer 30

Molly Pitcher