Revolutionary War Era

Question 0

Proclamation of Rebellion

Answer 0

King George

August 1775

Question 1

Olive Branch Petition

Answer 1

Colonists> King George lll

July 1775

Question 2

Thomas Paine wrote

Answer 2

Common Sense

Jan 1776

Question 3

Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms

Answer 3

Continental Congress

July 1775

Question 4

Prohibitory Act

Answer 4

Parliament

Dec 1775

Question 5

Richard Henry Lee

Answer 5

Led the resolution to break from England

Jun 1776

Question 6

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 6

Led the committee preparing Declaration of Independence

July 4, 1776

Question 7

John Locke

Answer 7

Social contract form of government

Question 8

William Blackstone

Answer 8

Wrote Commentaries on the Laws of England

Question 9

Patriots

Answer 9

Whigs

Question 10

Loyalists

Answer 10

Tories

Question 11

Haym Solomon

Answer 11

Polish Jew broker, funded war

Question 12

Sir William Howe

Answer 12

British general

Question 13

Admiral Lord Richard Howe

Answer 13

General Howe’s bro, commander of British navy

Question 14

Gen. Cornwallis

Answer 14

Defeated BY Washington 1777 at Princeton

Question 15

Patriot General Nic Herkimer

Answer 15

Won Battle of Oriskany

Question 16

Saratoga, turning point of war

Answer 16

Gen. H. Gates defeated Gen. J. Burgoyne

Oct 1777

Question 17

Brandywine, Germantown, Philadelphia

Answer 17

Conquered by General Howe by 1777

Question 18

Valley Forge

Answer 18

Winter of 1777-8

Question 19

Sir Henry Clinton

Answer 19

New commander of British army

Spring 1778

Question 20

Patriot George Rogers Clark

Answer 20

Seized Kaskaskia and Cahokia

Question 21

John Paul Jones

Answer 21

Irish privateer

Question 22

John Barry

Answer 22

Scotch privateer

Question 23

Savannah

Answer 23

Taken by Cornwallis

1778

Question 24

Charleston

Answer 24

Taken by Cornwallis | 1780

Question 25

Camden, SC

Answer 25

Gen. Gates defeated

Question 26

Francis Marion

Answer 26

"Swamp Fox"

Question 27

General Thomas Sumpter

Answer 27

"Fighting Game Cock"

Question 28

"Mad Anthony Wayne"

Answer 28

Patriot, seized Stony Point

Question 29

Battle of Kings Mountain

Answer 29

Patriots stopped Brit invasion of NC

Question 30

Gen. Nathanael Greene

Answer 30

"Fighting Quaker"

Question 31

Admiral de Grasse

Answer 31

Helped defeat Cornwallis at Yorktown by blocking Chesapeake Bay

Question 32

Count Rochambeau

Answer 32

French, helped Washington defeat Cornwallis at Yorktown

Question 33

Benedict Arnold

Answer 33

Tried to traitorously give away West Point Ft.

Question 34

Treaty of Paris

Answer 34

1783

Question 35

Major John André

Answer 35

Benedict Arnolds Brit accomplice

Question 36

Yorktown

Answer 36

Winning battle of Rev War | 1781