Names (ch. 6)

Question 0

Nathan Hale

Answer 0

“I only regret that I have one life to lose for my country”

Question 1

Thomas Paine

Answer 1

Wrote The Crisis

Question 2

Hessians

Answer 2

Troops guarding Trenton

Question 3

General Howe

Answer 3

British General who occupied New York with 34,000 soldiers

Question 4

General Charles Cornwallis

Answer 4

Tried to retake Trenton

Question 5

General John Burgoyne

Answer 5

Surrendered at Saratoga

Question 6

The Green Mountain Boys

Answer 6

Helped to win the Battle of Saratoga in New York

Question 7

George III

Answer 7

The king of Great Britian

Question 8

Louis XVI

Answer 8

The king of France

Question 9

Marquis de Lafayette

Answer 9

Young French noble who brought trained soldiers to help Patriots

Question 10

Friedrich von Steuben

Answer 10

Trained Washington’s troops to march and drill

Question 11

Thaddeus Koksciusko

Answer 11

Polish engineer who helped build forts for the Patriots

Question 12

George Rogers Clark

Answer 12

Captured Kaskaskia and Cahokia

Question 13

Sir Henry Clinton

Answer 13

British general in South Carolina

Question 14

John Paul Jones

Answer 14

Bonhomme Richard vs. Serapis

Question 15

Betsy Ross

Answer 15

Sewed flags for Washington

Question 16

Mary Ludwig Hays

Answer 16

Molly Pitcher-Battle of Monmouth

Question 17

Peter Salem

Answer 17

Fought bravely at Bunker Hill

Question 18

James Otis

Answer 18

Hoped to end slavery

Question 19

General Barry St. Leger

Answer 19

British General who was stopped by Benedict Arnold in New York so that he could not join up with British General Burgoyne at Saratoga

Question 20

Francis Marion

Answer 20

American patriot know as the swamp fox, used hit and run tactic to fight

Question 21

Comte de Rochambeau

Answer 21

French General who helped Americans forces win at Yorktown

Question 22

Colonel William Prescott

Answer 22

Leader of the Minutemen at Lexington

Question 23

Richard Henry Lee

Answer 23

Made resolution asking for the Declaration of Independence

Question 24

John Dickinson

Answer 24

Olive branch petition, refused to sign Declaration of Independence, letter from a Pennsylvania farmer

Question 25

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 25

Wrote Declaration of Independence

Question 26

Benedict Arnold

Answer 26

Great American General who became a traitor

Question 27

Marquis de Lafayette

Answer 27

He came from France to help the American cause

Question 28

Ethan Allen

Answer 28

Patriot and leader of the Green Mountain Boys who captured Fort Ticonderoga

Question 29

Ben Franklin

Answer 29

Was in France seeking the help of France to join the American cause

Question 30

Admiral de Grasse

Answer 30

French naval commander who helped trap the British at Yorktown

Question 31

Lord North

Answer 31

British prime minister during the American Revolution

Question 32

Haym Solomon

Answer 32

Jewish patriot who sometimes spied for the Americans. Raised thousand of dollars for the American cause

Question 33

Sir Henry Clinton

Answer 33

British General who captured the cities of Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia