Test II: The Revolutionary War

Question 1

document that signified the end of the Revolutionary War

Answer 1

Treaty of Paris

Question 2

Father of Declaration of Independence

Answer 2

Thomas Jefferson

Question 3

traitor who plotted to give up the fort at West Point

Answer 3

Benedict Arnold

Question 4

when British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists

Answer 4

Boston Massacre

Question 5

when Americans dressed as Natives and dumped tea

Answer 5

Boston Tea Part

Question 6

first battles of the Revolutionary War

Answer 6

Lexington and Concord

Question 7

British general forced to surrender at Yorktown

Answer 7

Lord Cornwallis

Question 8

French nobleman who served in teh American Army

Answer 8

Marquis de Lafayette

Question 9

volunteer soldiers ready at a moement’s notice

Answer 9

minutemen

Question 10

commander-in-chief of the Continental Army

Answer 10

George Washington

Question 11

young American patriot who was hanged as a spy by the British

Answer 11

Nathan Hale

Question 12

general at Bunker Hill

Answer 12

William Prescott

Question 13

president of the Congress that accepted the Declaration

Answer 13

John Hancock

Question 14

successful American naval officer

Answer 14

John Paul Jones

Question 15

“I have not yet begun to fight!”

Answer 15

John Paul Jones

Question 16

Final battle of the Revolutionary War

Answer 16

Yorktown

Question 17

Year of the first Continental Congress

Answer 17

1774

Question 18

Date of the Second Treaty of Paris

Answer 18

Sept. 3, 1783

Question 19

Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory

Answer 19

Bunker Hill

Question 20

“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”

Answer 20

William Prescott

Question 21

Date of the Declaration of Independence

Answer 21

July 4, 1776

Question 22

Date of the Second Continental Congress

Answer 22

May 10, 1775

Question 23

“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”

Answer 23

Patrick Henry

Question 24

Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians

Answer 24

crossing of the Delaware

Question 25

Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War

Answer 25

Saratoga

Question 26

Year of the Boston Tea Party

Answer 26

1773

Question 27

Date of the battles of Lexington and Concord

Answer 27

April 19, 1775

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Nathan Hale

Question 29

Year of the Boston Massacre

Answer 29

1770

Question 30

How does R.A. Emerson describe the first battle of the Revolutionary War?

Answer 30

“the shot heard round the world”

Question 31

What was the first time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of Americans?

Answer 31

First Continental Congress

Question 32

Who were the riders sent to warn Charleston and Lexington of the coming British army?

Answer 32

Paul Revere and William Dawes

Question 33

What were the five causes of the Revolutionary War?

Answer 33

trade and navigation laws; stamp act; townshend acts; boston massacre; the five intolerable acts

Question 34

List the thirteen original colonies

Answer 34

Virginia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island, North Carolina, South Carolina, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Georgia