History Quiz 6.1-6.5

Question 1

Promised that, if King George would come to reasonable terms, the colonists would resume their previous loyalty to the Crown

Answer 1

Olive Branch Petition

Question 2

enumerated specific injustices inflicted upon the colonies by Great Britain

Answer 2

Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms

Question 3

declared that the American colonies were in rebellion and ordered the British military to suppress them

Answer 3

Proclamation of Rebellion

Question 4

Prohibited all trade with the colonies

Answer 4

Prohibitory Act

Question 5

German Soldiers from Hesse

Answer 5

Hessians

Question 6

Published a pamphlet called Common Sense

Answer 6

Thomas Paine

Question 7

Virginian Congressman who proposed the resolution for independence

Answer 7

Richard Henry Lee

Question 8

Prepared the most important human statement of political principles in human history

Answer 8

Thomas Jefferson

Question 9

Two English political Thinkers

Answer 9

John Locke
William Blackstone

Question 10

Influential four-volume English legal history by William Blackstone

Answer 10

Commentaries on the Laws of England

Question 11

What was another name for the Patriots

Answer 11

Whigs

Question 12

What was another name for the Loyalists

Answer 12

Tories

Question 13

Who were influential Frenchman

Answer 13

Marquis de Lafayette
Baron von Steuben
Baron de Kalb

Question 14

What were a few patriot disadvantages

Answer 14

Lack of unity
Financial problems

Question 15

Who was appointed superintendent of finance in 1781

Answer 15

Robert Morris

Question 16

Who was the British General in 1776

Answer 16

Sir William Howe

Question 17

Who was the spy that was hanged for the Patriots

Answer 17

Nathan Hale

Question 18

Where did Washington surprise the Hessians

Answer 18

Trenton, NJ

Question 19

Who was the British commander sent to Princeton

Answer 19

Charles Cornwallis

Question 20

What was the Turning point of the War for Independence

Answer 20

Battle of Saratoga

Question 21

What were two tough losses for the Patriots

Answer 21

Battle of Brandywine
Battle of Germantown

Question 22

Where were the Patriots for the winter of 1777-1778

Answer 22

Valley Forge

Question 23

Who replaced William Howe as commander in chief of the British

Answer 23

Sir Henry Clinton

Question 24

Under the leadership of who did volunteers seize British posts at Kaskaskia and Cahokia

Answer 24

George Rogers Clark

Question 25

What were private vessels commissioned by the Congress or the states

Answer 25

Privateers

Question 26

Who were two of the best Naval heroes of the War for Independence

Answer 26

John Paul Jones
John Barry

Question 27

What was the name of John Paul Jones’ ship

Answer 27

Bonhomme Richard

Question 28

Whose nickname was “The Swamp Fox”

Answer 28

Francis Marion

Question 29

Whose nickname was “Game Cock”

Answer 29

Thomas Sumter

Question 30

Where did a patriot force stop a British invasion of North Carolina

Answer 30

Battle of Kings Mountain

Question 31

Where was the War for Independence virtually won?

Answer 31

Battle of Yorktown

Question 32

What ended the War for Independence

Answer 32

The Treaty of Paris