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Table of Contents
Instructions ........................................................................................ 4
Game Board .................................................................................... 5-7
Question Cards: Level 1 .................................................................. 8-24
Blank Question Cards .........................................................................25
Players’ Game Cards (color) ........................................................... 26-29
Star Tokens .......................................................................................30
Players’ Game Cards (black and white) ........................................... 31-34
Question Cards: Level 2 ................................................................. 35-51
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A Spy for General Washington
How much do you know about the Revolutionary War? You will find out when you play this game where every correct
answer gets you closer to delivering your information and helping the colonists win the war. In this game, you are a spy
for the American patriots during the Revolutionary War. You must collect information and get it back to General
Washington before it is too late!
Preparing the Game
1. Attach two file folders together by overlapping one side so you have three parts to glue the game board to. Attach
the game board to the three parts of the file folders. Be sure to match the spaces on the board. Trim the pages if
necessary to make them meet in the correct places.
2. Cut out the question cards. If you print them on cardstock or print them on paper and laminate them, they will hold
up longer, but they can be used just as easily if printed on regular copy paper. There are two sets of question and
answer cards to allow you to adjust the difficulty level for your family. The first set (Level 1) has multiple choice answers
provided for the questions and is intended for players who have not had a chance to study the Revolutionary War in as
much detail. The second set (Level 2) asks nearly the same questions but does not provide choices of answers. It is
intended for players who have had a chance to already learn about the Revolutionary War or who have played Level 1
and feel they have mastered the material. There is also a page of blank question cards so that you may add additional
questions related to your family’s study of the Revolutionary War.
3. Flag cards are included in color and in black and white so players may color their own flag if desired. Print the flag
cards on cardstock or paper and laminate (if using the ones in color) if desired, or print on regular copy paper. Each
player will require one flag card. This is the card that will be filled in at the bottom with the star tokens earned during
the game.
4. Cut out the star tokens that you will need to play the game. Each player will need thirteen tokens.
5. Gather one die and something such as beans, buttons, or tokens from another game to use as markers.
Playing the Game
All players begin on Start. The first player rolls the die. Before the player moves, he must answer a question correctly.
The player to his left draws a question card and asks the player the question. If the player answers correctly, he moves
the number rolled. If he lands on a blank space, he stays there and the turn is over. If the player lands on a blue space
with a star on it, he must answer another question. If he answers correctly, he receives a piece of information (a star
token), places it on the bottom portion of his flag card, and his play ends. Play moves to the next player. Note: if the
question answered on the star space is a question with a blue answer, the player receives his star as normal, rolls the
dice, and is given another question to answer. If he answers correctly, he moves the number rolled and continues play
as normal. If he answers incorrectly, the turn ends.
Each set of questions includes fourteen cards with answers shown in blue. These questions require exact dates for
answers. If these questions are answered correctly, the player gets to take another turn. The player rolls and answers a
second question. If the question is answered incorrectly, they do not move. If it is answered correctly, they move the
number shown.
A player must have thirteen stars (one for each colony) in order to win the game. If a player reaches the end of the
game and does not have thirteen stars, he must turn around and move backward until he has collected thirteen stars.
Then he may turn around (he does not need to move the entire way back to Start) and move again in the same fashion
toward the end of the game. The star tokens represent information you are delivering to General Washington. The first
person to get thirteen stars and get to General Washington’s headquarters to deliver their information wins the game!
You can proudly display the flag that is on your card!
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What act placed a high tax on
sugar and molasses that was
imported from France?
A. The Sugar Act (of 1764)
B. The Molasses Act (of 1733)
C. The Stamp Act (of 1765)
What year was the Molasses Act
passed?
A. 1733
B. 1765
C. 1767
What year was the proclamation
passed that stopped the colonists
from settling further west than
Great Britain allowed?
A. 1760
B. 1763
C. 1765
What act lowered taxes on sugar
and molasses but included taxes on
other goods?
A. The Sugar Act (of 1764)
B. The Molasses Act (of 1733)
C. The Declaratory Act
What year was the Sugar Act
passed?
A. 1763
B. 1764
C. 1765
What act gave Great Britain control
of the financial system of the
colonies?
A. The Quartering Act (of 1765)
B. The Declaratory Act
C. The Currency Act (of 1764)
What year was the Currency Act
passed?
A. 1764
B. 1765
C. 1767
What act placed a tax on paper
goods?
A. The Sugar Act (of 1764)
B. The Stamp Act (of 1765)
C. The Quartering Act (of 1765)
What year was the Stamp Act
passed?
A. 1763
B. 1764
C. 1765
What act required the colonists to
feed and house British troops while
they were in the colonies?
A. The Quartering Act (of
1765)
B. The Molasses Act (of 1733)
C. The Declaratory Act
What year was the Quartering Act
passed?
A. 1764
B. 1765
C. 1767
After the Stamp Act was repealed,
what act was passed to show the
colonists that Great Britain had a right
to govern them however they wanted?
A. The Quartering Act
B. The Townshend Acts
C. The Declaratory Act
What was the name of a series of acts
that added new taxes, raised taxes,
and attempted to force the colonists to
give Britain more control over their
laws and lives?
A. The Townshend Acts
B. The Declaratory Act
C. The Stamp Act
What year were the Townshend
Acts passed?
A. 1765
B. 1767
C. 1769
What was the name of the event in
Boston when British soldiers fired on
colonists after months of problems
between the colonists of Boston and
the British soldiers?
A. The Boston Tea Party
B. Battle of Bunker Hill
C. The Boston Massacre
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What act attempted to give the
East India Tea Company a
monopoly on the sale of tea in the
colonies?
A. The Tea Act
B. The Sugar Act
C. The Molasses Act
What year was the
Tea Act passed?
A. 1772
B. 1773
C. 1775
What was the name of the event
where colonists in Boston went to the
harbor dressed as Indians and threw
tea overboard in protest of the Tea
Act?
A. The Boston Massacre
B. The Battle of Bunker Hill
C. The Boston Tea Party
What poet fictionalized Paul
Revere’s ride?
A. Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
B. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
C. Nathaniel Hawthorne
What acts included the closing of
Boston Harbor until the colonists
paid for the tea that was destroyed
in the Boston Tea Party?
A. The Declaratory Act
B. The Intolerable Acts
C. The Tea Act
What acts included the statement
that Great Britain would appoint
elected officials in Massachusetts?
A. The Declaratory Act
B. The Quartering Act
C. The Intolerable Acts
What acts limited the powers of the
town meeting in the Massachusetts
colony?
A. The Intolerable Acts
B. The Currency Act
C. The Quartering Act
What was the name for the group
of people who allied with the
British leading up to and during the
Revolutionary War?
A. Patriots
B. Tories or Loyalists
C. Hessians
What was the name for the group
of people who wanted freedom
from Britain?
A. Tories
B. Hessians
C. Patriots
What was the name for the special
militia that could be ready in a
minute?
A. The Minutemen
B. Green Mountain Boys
C. Green Dragoons
What was another name used to
refer to the British soldiers?
A. Hessians
B. Redcoats
C. Patriots
What was the name that referred
to the German soldiers that were
hired by Britain to fight the
Patriots?
A. Minutemen
B. Tories
C. Hessians
What was the name for the treaty
that ended the Revolutionary War
and gave America its
independence?
A. Treaty of Paris
B. Articles of Confederation
C. Treaty of Amity and Commerce
What was the name of John Paul
Jones’ ship?
A. HMS Serepis
B. The Bonhomme Richard
C. Dartmouth
In what place did Washington’s
Army stay during the winter of
1777-1778?
A. Philadelphia
B. Trenton
C. Valley Forge
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When did Washington’s Army stay
at Valley Forge?
A. 1777-1778
B. 1778-1779
C. 1779-1780
In what city did the Second
Continental Congress meet?
A. Boston
B. Philadelphia
C. New York
What fort was located opposite
West Point, across the Hudson
River?
A. Fort Washington
B. Fort Ticonderoga
C. Fort Constitution
Who was the American General
who later worked for the British?
A. Benedict Arnold
B. Ethan Allen
C. Nathan Hale
What colonial officer attempted to
capture West Point for the British?
A. Paul Revere
B. Benedict Arnold
C. William Dawes
Who was a spy for the Americans,
who stated, “I only regret that I
have but one life to lose for my
country.”
A. Patrick Henry
B. John Hancock
C. Nathan Hale
Who led the Green
Mountain Boys?
A. Ethan Allen
B. Samuel Prescott
C. Francis Marion
What leader of the Green Mountain
boys helped to capture Fort
Ticonderoga?
A. Francis Marion
B. Ethan Allen
C. Nathan Hale
Which midnight rider warned John
Hancock and Samuel Adams that
the British were coming but was
then captured by the British?
A. Dr. Samuel Prescott
B. William Dawes
C. Paul Revere
Which midnight rider left from Boston
at the same time as Paul Revere and
made it to Lexington, but after
escaping the British, never made it to
Concord?
A. William Dawes
B. Dr. Samuel Prescott
C. Richard Montgomery
Which midnight rider rode from
Lexington to Concord and was the
only one to make it to Concord?
A. Paul Revere
B. Dr. Samuel Prescott
C. Richard Montgomery
Who was the first person to sign
the Declaration of Independence?
A. Patrick Henry
B. Benjamin Franklin
C. John Hancock
Who became known as “the
Swamp Fox”?
A. Francis Marion
B. Banastre Tarleton
C. Ethan Allen
Who was a General and the
Commander-in-Chief of the
Continental Army?
A. Alexander Hamilton
B. George Washington
C. General Horatio Gates
Who was the British Military
Governor of Massachusetts?
A. General Lord Charles Cornwallis
B. Lord George Germain
C. General Thomas Gage
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Who was the King of England at
the time of the Revolutionary War?
A. King George III
B. Lord George Germain
C. Lord North
Who was the British General who
surrendered to General George
Washington at Yorktown?
A. General Sir William Howe
B. General Lord Charles
Cornwallis
C. Lt. Gen. Hugh Percy
Who succeeded General Sir William
Howe as the British Commander-in-
Chief in the colonies?
A. General Sir William Howe
B. Major Andre
C. General Henry Clinton
Who was the British Commander-
in-Chief that captured New York
and Philadelphia?
A. General Sir William Howe
B. General Thomas Gage
C. General John Burgoyne
Who was the British major who
conspired with Benedict Arnold and
was later hung as a spy?
A. Major John Pitcairn
B. Major Andre
C. Maj. Gen. Francis Smith
What British officer led the relief
column at Lexington and Concord,
and later led the storming of Fort
Washington?
A. Major Andre
B. Captain William DeLaPlace
C. Lt. Gen. Hugh Percy
Who was a British marine that was
at the Battle of Lexington and
Concord and was later killed at the
Battle of Bunker Hill?
A. Major John Pitcairn
B. General John Burgoyne
C. General Thomas Gage
Who was the British commander
during the Battle of Lexington and
Concord?
A. General Thomas Gage
B. Maj. Gen. Francis Smith
C. General Sir William Howe
Who surrendered Fort Ticonderoga
to the Americans?
A. Major Andre
B. Lt. Gen. Hugh Percy
C. Captain William DeLaPlace
At what battle did the British finally
surrender, ending the fighting in
the colonies during the
Revolutionary War?
A. Battle of Yorktown
B. Battle of Saratoga
C. Battle of Cowpens
What battle in New Jersey was one
of America’s first major victories in
the Revolutionary War?
A. Battle of Princeton
B. Battle of Trenton
C. Battle of Monmouth
What battle was considered the
turning point of the Revolutionary
War?
A. Battle of Trenton
B. Battle of Quebec
C. Battle of Saratoga
What New York fort was captured
by Ethan Allen and Benedict
Arnold?
A. Fort Ticonderoga
B. Fort Constitution
C. Fort Washington
What were the first battles of the
Revolutionary War?
A. Battles of Princeton and
Trenton
B. Battles of Lexington and
Concord
C. Battle of Long Island
What battle was fought in Canada
in an attempt to have the
Canadians fight on the side of the
Americans?
A. Battle of Brandywine
B. Battle of Fort Ticonderoga
C. Battle of Quebec
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The American surrender after the
Siege of Charleston caused the
biggest loss of what during the
Revolutionary War?
A. Troops
B. Money
C. Supplies
What was the turning point of the
war in the Southern Colonies?
A. Battle of Saratoga
B. Battle of Cowpens
C. Battle of Kings Mountain
Washington crossed the Delaware
to attack what city on
December 25, 1776?
A. Monmouth
B. Princeton
C. Trenton
In what year did the Boston
Massacre take place?
A. 1770
B. 1775
C. 1778
In what year did Virginia become a
state?
A. 1778
B. 1788
C. 1798
In what year did Massachusetts
become a state?
A. 1778
B. 1785
C. 1788
In what year did New Hampshire
become a state?
A. 1788
B. 1789
C. 1790
In what year did Maryland become
a state?
A. 1785
B. 1788
C. 1790
In what year did Connecticut
become a state?
A. 1778
B. 1785
C. 1788
In what year did Rhode Island
become a state?
A. 1790
B. 1791
C. 1793
In what year did Delaware become
a state?
A. 1785
B. 1787
C. 1789
In what year did North Carolina
become a state?
A. 1785
B. 1787
C. 1789
In what year did South Carolina
become a state?
A. 1788
B. 1789
C. 1790
In what year did New York become
a state?
A. 1785
B. 1788
C. 1790
In what year did New Jersey
become a state?
A. 1783
B. 1785
C. 1787
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In what year did Georgia become
a state?
A. 1788
B. 1789
C. 1790
In what year did Pennsylvania
become a state?
A. 1785
B. 1787
C. 1790
In what year did the Battles of
Lexington and Concord
take place?
A. 1773
B. 1774
C. 1775
In what year did the capture of
Fort Ticonderoga take place?
A. 1775
B. 1776
C. 1777
In what year did the Battle of
Bunker Hill take place?
A. 1774
B. 1775
C. 1776
In what year did the Battle of
Bennington take place?
A. 1775
B. 1776
C. 1777
In what year did the Battle of
Quebec take place?
A. 1775
B. 1776
C. 1777
In what year did the Battle of Long
Island take place?
A. 1775
B. 1776
C. 1777
In what year did the Battle of
Trenton take place?
A. 1774
B. 1775
C. 1776
In what year did the Battle of
Princeton take place?
A. 1777
B. 1778
C. 1779
In what year did the Battle of
Yorktown take place?
A. 1780
B. 1781
C. 1782
In what year did the Battle of
Valcour Bay take place?
A. 1774
B. 1775
C. 1776
In what year did the Battle of
Saratoga take place?
A. 1777
B. 1778
C. 1779
In what year did the Battle of
Brandywine take place?
A. 1776
B. 1777
C. 1778
In what year did the Battle of
Germantown take place?
A. 1775
B. 1776
C. 1777
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In what year did the Battle of
Monmouth take place?
A. 1778
B. 1779
C. 1780
In what year did the Battle of
Camden take place?
A. 1779
B. 1780
C. 1781
In what year did the Battle of
Kings Mountain take place?
A. 1778
B. 1789
C. 1780
In what year did the Battle of
Cowpens take place?
A. 1781
B. 1782
C. 1783
In what year did Paul Revere’s ride
take place?
A. 1774
B. 1775
C. 1776
In what year did the Battle of
Guilford Courthouse take place?
A. 1779
B. 1780
C. 1781
Who was the author of Common
Sense?
A. Thomas Paine
B. Benjamin Franklin
C. John Hancock
In what colony did the Battles of
Lexington and Concord take place?
A. Pennsylvania
B. Massachusetts
C. New York
In what colony did the Battle of
Bunker Hill take place?
A. Pennsylvania
B. New Jersey
C. Massachusetts
In what colony did the Battle of
Long Island take place?
A. New York
B. New Jersey
C. Pennsylvania
In what colony did the Battle of
Trenton take place?
A. Massachusetts
B. New Jersey
C. New York
In what colony did the Battle of
Princeton take place?
A. Pennsylvania
B. New York
C. New Jersey
In what colony did the Battle of
Monmouth take place?
A. New Jersey
B. Massachusetts
C. Rhode Island
Horatio Gates was a military leader
for which side?
A. American
B. British
Nathanael Greene was a military
leader for which side?
A. American
B. British
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William Heath was a military leader
for which side?
A. American
B. British
Henry Knox was a military leader
for which side?
A. American
B. British
Benjamin Lincoln was a military
leader for which side?
A. American
B. British
Marquis de Lafayette was a military
leader for which side?
A. American
B. British
William Prescott was a military
leader for which side?
A. American
B. British
Casimir Pulaski was a military
leader for which side?
A. American
B. British
Who became known as the “Father
of the American Cavalry?”
A. Nathaniel Greene
B. Casimir Pulaski
C. Paul Revere
Friedrich von Steuben was a
military leader for which side?
A. American
B. British
George Rogers Clark was a military
leader for which side?
A. American
B. British
Banastre Tarleton was a military
leader for which side?
A. American
B. British
Baron von Riedesel was a military
leader for which side?
A. American
B. British
William Tyron was a military leader
for which side?
A. American
B. British
Richard Prescott was a military
leader for which side?
A. American
B. British
Joseph Brant was a military leader
for which side?
A. American
B. British
Robert Pigot was a military leader
for which side?
A. American
B. British
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Patrick Ferguson was a military
leader for which side?
A. American
B. British
What battle was fought 10 miles
from Bennington, Vermont, in New
York State and was a major victory
for the colonists?
A. Battle of Long Island
B. Battle of Fort Ticonderoga
C. Battle of Bennington
In what colony did the Battle of
Bennington take place?
A. New York
B. Vermont
C. Massachusetts
What battle was fought at
Freeman’s Farm and Bemis
Heights?
A. Battle of Cowpens
B. Battle of Saratoga
C. Battle of Kings Mountain
What colonial victory helped the
colonists form an alliance with
France?
A. Battle of Yorktown
B. Battle of Guilford Courthouse
C. Battle of Saratoga
In what colony did the Battle of
Saratoga take place?
A. New York
B. Georgia
C. South Carolina
Where was the colonial army camped
when Baron von Steuben helped them
learn more military discipline during
the winter of 1777-1778?
A. Boston
B. Valley Forge
C. Philadelphia
In what colony was Valley Forge?
A. Massachusetts
B. New Jersey
C. Pennsylvania
Who commanded the British troops
at the Battle of Bunker Hill?
A. Major General William
Howe
B. General Thomas Gage
C. Major John Pitcairn
Who commanded the Colonial
troops at the Battle of Bunker Hill?
A. General George Washington
B. Colonel William Prescott
C. General Richard Montgomery
What hill was the Battle of Bunker
Hill fought on?
A. Brandywine
B. Bunker Hill
C. Breed’s Hill
What was the name of the treaty between
the colonies and France that created a
military alliance in which both sides agreed
not to sign a separate peace treaty with
Great Britain, unless Britain signed a peace
treaty with both countries and agreed that
American Independence must be part of
any treaty that was signed?
A. Treaty of Alliance with France
B. Treaty of Paris
C. Treaty of Amity and Commerce
What year was the Treaty of
Alliance with France signed?
A. 1775
B. 1778
C. 1780
What was the name of the treaty that
was signed with France that promoted
trade and business ties between
France and the colonies?
A. Treaty of Alliance with France
B. Treaty of Paris
C. Treaty of Amity and Commerce
In what year was the Treaty of
Amity and Commerce signed?
A. 1778
B. 1779
C. 1780
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Along with Silas Dean and Arthur Lee,
what other diplomat helped negotiate
the Treaty of Alliance and Treaty of
Amity and Commerce with France?
A. Samuel Adams
B. Benjamin Franklin
C. Patrick Henry
What was the result of the Battle
of Monmouth for the colonial army?
A. Win
B. Loss
C. Draw
What was the result of the Battle
of Bunker Hill for the
colonial army?
A. Win
B. Loss
C. Draw
What two generals led the colonial
army at the Battle of Monmouth?
A. General George Washington and
General Richard Montgomery
B. General Richard Montgomery and
Major General Charles Lee
C. General George Washington
and Major General Charles Lee
Who were the two colonial leaders,
who led the attack on Quebec?
A. Major General Charles Lee and
Colonel Benedict Arnold
B. Colonel Benedict Arnold and
General Richard Montgomery
C. General Richard Montgomery and
Major General Charles Lee
What year marked the organization
of the American Naval Force?
A. 1773
B. 1774
C. 1775
What New York fort did the colonial
army, led by Brigadier General
Antony Wayne, recapture on
July 16, 1779?
A. Stony Point
B. Ticonderoga
C. Washington
In what colony was the fort of
Stony Point?
A. New Jersey
B. New York
C. Rhode Island
Who was the commander of the
British troops at Stony Point when
the colonial army recaptured the
fort on July 16, 1779?
A. Sir Guy Carleton
B. Sir Thomas Gage
C. Lt. General Henry Johnson
Who is known as “The Father of
the American Navy”?
A. John Paul Jones
B. Nathan Hale
C. Paul Revere
What was the name of the British
ship that fought the Bonhomme
Richard?
A. Dartmouth
B. HMS Serapis
C. Eleanor
In the naval battle between the
Bonhomme Richard and the HMS
Serapis, which ship won?
A. Bonhomme Richard
B. HMS Serapis
What happened to the Bonhomme
Richard after it won the battle with
the HMS Serapis?
A. It was towed to harbor
B. It towed the HMS Serapis to
harbor
C. It sank
Who was the commander of the
Continental Army troops that
fought in the Battle of Camden?
A. General Horatio Gates
B. General Richard Montgomery
C. Colonel Benedict Arnold
Who was the commander of the
British forces that fought in the
Battle of Camden?
A. Sir Guy Carleton
B. General Charles Cornwallis
C. General Henry Clinton
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In what colony did the Battle of
Valcour Bay take place?
A. Massachusetts
B. Rhode Island
C. New York
What was the result of the Battle of
Camden for the colonial army?
A. Win
B. Loss
C. Draw
What was the result of the Battle
of Valcour Bay for the
colonial army?
A. Win
B. Loss
C. Draw
In what colony did the Battle of
Camden take place?
A. South Carolina
B. North Carolina
C. Virginia
In what colony did the Battle of
Cowpens take place?
A. Georgia
B. North Carolina
C. South Carolina
What was the result of the Battle
of Kings Mountain for the
colonial army?
A. Win
B. Loss
C. Draw
What was the result of the Battle
of Cowpens for the colonial army?
A. Win
B. Loss
C. Draw
What was the result of the Battle
of Guilford Courthouse for the
colonial army?
A. Win
B. Loss
C. Draw
In what colony did the Battle of
Guilford Courthouse take place?
A. North Carolina
B. Georgia
C. Virginia
What was the result of the Battle of
Trenton for the colonial army?
A. Win
B. Loss
C. Draw
What was the result of the Battle of
Princeton for the colonial army?
A. Win
B. Loss
C. Draw
Who commanded the British-
Hessian army at the Battle of
Brandywine?
A. General Thomas Gage
B. General Sir William Howe
C. General Lord Charles Cornwallis
Who commanded the colonial army
at the Battle of Brandywine?
A. General Richard Montgomery
B. General Horatio Gates
C. General George Washington
In what colony did the Battle of
Brandywine take place?
A. Pennsylvania
B. New York
C. Vermont
In what year were the Articles of
Confederation ratified by all of the
colonies?
A. 1780
B. 1781
C. 1785
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What document guided the
government of the new country until
the U.S. Constitution was
implemented?
A. Declaration of Independence
B. Treaty of Paris
C. The Articles of Confederation
What was the result of the Battle of
Brandywine for the colonial army?
A. Win
B. Loss
C. Draw
What was the result of the Battle
of Germantown for the
colonial army?
A. Win
B. Loss
C. Draw
In what colony did the Battle of
Germantown take place?
A. Pennsylvania
B. New Jersey
C. Vermont
Approximately how long did the
Battle of Yorktown last?
A. Two weeks
B. Three weeks
C. One Month
Who surrendered to George
Washington at the Battle of
Yorktown?
A. General Thomas Gage
B. General William Howe
C. General Lord Charles
Cornwallis
Which signer of the Treaty of Paris
was also an inventor?
A. Benjamin Franklin
B. Thomas Paine
C. Samuel Adams
What year was the final Treaty of
Paris signed?
A. 1782
B. 1783
C. 1784
What year was the Treaty of Paris
ratified by the Continental
Congress?
A. 1782
B. 1783
C. 1784
Who was the British Secretary of State
(also called colonial secretary) for the
American Colonies at the beginning of
the Revolutionary War?
A. Lord George Germain
B. Lord North
C. Sir Guy Carleton
What British politician was in favor
of continuing the war after the
surrender at Yorktown?
A. Lord North
B. Lord George Germain
C. King George III
Who was the British General that
laid siege to Charleston, South
Carolina?
A. General Lord Charles Cornwallis
B. General Henry Clinton
C. General John Burgoyne
Who ordered the British troops to
Lexington and Concord?
A. General William Howe
B. General John Burgoyne
C. Sir Thomas Gage
What British officer, who had ordered
the British troops to Lexington and
Concord, was recalled to England after
the Battle of Bunker Hill?
A. Sir Thomas Gage
B. General William Howe
C. Sir Henry Clinton
Who was the Commander-in-Chief
of the British forces at the
beginning of the Revolutionary
War?
A. Sir Guy Carleton
B. General William Howe
C. Sir Henry Clinton
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Who succeeded Sir Henry Clinton
as the British Commander-in-Chief
in North America after the
surrender at Yorktown?
A. General William Howe
B. Sir Thomas Gage
C. Sir Guy Carleton
Who was the Prime Minister of
England during the Revolutionary
War?
A. Lord North
B. Lord George Germain
C. Banastre Tarleton
Which British politician introduced
the Intolerable Acts?
A. Lord George Germain
B. Lord North
C. King George III
Which British officer was also a
playwright?
A. Major John Pitcairn
B. General John Burgoyne
C. Banastre Tarleton
Which British officer captured Fort
Ticonderoga?
A. Banastre Tarlton
B. Lt. Gen. Hugh Percy
C. General John Burgoyne
Which British officer was a half-
brother to James Smithson, the
founder of the Smithsonian
Institution?
A. Lt. General Hugh Percy
B. Sir Guy Carlton
C. Sir Henry Clinton
Who was the British cavalry
commander, known for his cruel
treatment of the colonials, who tried
and failed to capture Francis Marion
(the Swamp Fox)?
A. Lt. Gen. Hugh Percy
B. Banastre Tarleton
C. Sir Thomas Gage
Who was the British officer that
was defeated at the Battle of
Cowpens?
A. Lord General Charles Cornwallis
B. Sir Henry Clinton
C. Banastre Tarleton
Which British officer headed the
British Legion known as the Green
Dragoons?
A. Banastre Tarleton
B. Ethan Allen
C. John Pitcairn
What was the first name of the
wife of John Adams and the
mother of John Quincy Adams?
A. Martha
B. Abigail
C. Betsy
Who was captured by the British
during the invasion of Canada and
was held prisoner for three years?
A. Paul Revere
B. Benedict Arnold
C. Ethan Allen
Who was the president of the
Massachusetts Provincial
Congress?
A. John Hancock
B. Samuel Adams
C. John Adams
Who was the President of the
Second Continental Congress?
A. Benjamin Franklin
B. John Hancock
C. Patrick Henry
What was John Hancock’s
occupation before the war?
A. Lawyer
B. Teacher
C. Merchant/Businessman
Which general of the Continental
Army became the first President of
the United States?
A. George Washington
B. Horatio Gates
C. Richard Montgomery
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Who was the president of the
Constitutional Convention?
A. John Hancock
B. George Washington
C. Benjamin Franklin
Who was the first to propose a
Continental Congress?
A. Patrick Henry
B. George Washington
C. Samuel Adams
Who helped to organize the Boston
Tea Party?
A. Samuel Adams
B. Ethan Allen
C. Patrick Henry
Who helped write, and was a
signer of, the Articles of
Confederation?
A. Nathan Hale
B. Samuel Adams
C. Nathaniel Greene
Whose second cousin became the
second president of the United
States?
A. John Adams
B. Samuel Adams
C. Thomas Jefferson
What was Nathan Hale’s
occupation before the war?
A. Bookseller
B. Poet
C. Teacher
What was George Washington’s
occupation before the war?
A. Surveyor
B. Lawyer
C. Merchant
What was Paul Revere’s occupation
before the war?
A. Blacksmith
B. Silversmith
C. Farmer
Who printed the first currency for
the new nation?
A. John Hancock
B. Benjamin Franklin
C. Paul Revere
What colonial leader was a
silversmith who opened the first
copper rolling mill in the United
States?
A. Paul Revere
B. Benjamin Franklin
C. Patrick Henry
Who was a seamstress who
supplied flags to the Pennsylvania
Navy?
A. Molly Pitcher
B. Betsy Ross
C. Martha Washington
Who is credited with making the
first American flag?
A. Molly Pitcher
B. Abigail Adams
C. Betsy Ross
What was Patrick Henry’s
occupation before the war?
A. Lawyer
B. Poet
C. Farmer
What leader of the revolution was
not in favor of the Constitution until
it contained the Bill of Rights?
A. Thomas Jefferson
B. Patrick Henry
C. John Adams
Who was the first governor of the
Commonwealth of Virginia?
A. George Washington
B. John Hancock
C. Patrick Henry
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What writer who wrote, “These are the
times that try men’s souls.” worked to
raise money in the colonies and France
to help the American troops?
A. Thomas Paine
B. Benjamin Franklin
C. John Jay
What writer of Common Sense
served as a clerk in the General
Assembly of Pennsylvania?
A. John Hancock
B. Thomas Paine
C. Benjamin Franklin
What was the first name of the
wife of the first President of the
United States?
A. Abigail
B. Betsy
C. Martha
What was John Adams’ occupation
before the war?
A. Lawyer
B. Poet
C. Farmer
Who, along with Benjamin Franklin
and John Jay, was sent to France
to help negotiate the Treaty of
Paris?
A. Samuel Adams
B. John Adams
C. Thomas Jefferson
Who was the first Vice President of
the United States?
A. Samuel Adams
B. Thomas Jefferson
C. John Adams
Who, along with Benjamin Franklin
and John Adams, was sent to
France to help negotiate the Treaty
of Paris?
A. John Jay
B. Francis Marion
C. Dr. Joseph Warren
What city was nicknamed “The
Cradle of Liberty”?
A. Philadelphia
B. Boston
C. New York
Who gave the instructions for Paul
Revere to ride to Lexington and
warn Hancock and Adams that the
British were coming?
A. Samuel Prescott
B. William Dawes
C. Dr. Joseph Warren
Who was a female slave and also a
published poet?
A. Phillis Wheatley
B. Mary McCauley
C. Elizabeth Willing Powell
What name did Mary McCauley
become known by because of carrying
water to the colonial soldiers during
the Battle of Monmouth?
A. Molly Canteen
B. Molly Pitcher
C. Mary Pitcher
What woman took over firing her
husband’s cannon after he was
injured at the Battle of Monmouth?
A. Martha Washington
B. Betsy Ross
C. Molly Pitcher/Mary
McCauley
Who was captured by Banastre
Tarleton at White’s Tavern in
Basking Ridge, New Jersey, in
1776?
A. General Charles Lee
B. General Henry Knox
C. General Richard Montgomery
What was Nathaniel Greene’s
religious background before
the war?
A. He was Amish
B. He was a Quaker
C. He was Jewish
What was General Henry Knox’s
occupation before the war?
A. Teacher
B. Merchant
C. Bookseller
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Who was the first Adjutant General
of the U.S. Army?
A. Horatio Gates
B. Charles Lee
C. Henry Knox
Who said: “Those who invalidate
reason ought seriously to consider
whether they argue against reason
with or without reason.”
A. Patrick Henry
B. Ethan Allen
C. Samuel Adams
Who said: “If ever a time should come,
when vain and aspiring men shall possess
the highest seats in Government, our
country will stand in need of its
experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
A. Marquis de Lafayette
B. George Washington
C. Samuel Adams
Who said: “The Constitution shall
never be construed to prevent the
people of the United States who are
peaceable citizens from keeping their
own arms.”
A. Samuel Adams
B. George Washington
C. John Adams
Who said: “Humanity has won its
battle. Liberty now has a country.”
A. Benjamin Franklin
B. Marquis de Lafayette
C. Patrick Henry
Who came to the U.S. from France
as a volunteer with the Colonial
Army and received no pay?
A. Major Andre
B. Baron von Steuben
C. Marquis de Lafayette
Who was appointed as a Major
General in the Colonial Army after
coming to the United States from
France as a volunteer?
A. Marquis de Lafayette
B. Baron Friedrich von Steuben
C. Major Andre
What Frenchman spent the winter
at Valley Forge with George
Washington and the colonial army?
A. Casimir Pulaski
B. Marquis de Lafayette
C. Major Andre
Who said: “Is life so dear, or peace
so sweet, as to be purchased at
the price of chains and slavery?”
A. Thomas Jefferson
B. John Hancock
C. Patrick Henry
Who said: “I know not what course
others may take; but as for me,
give me liberty, or give me death!”
A. Patrick Henry
B. George Washington
C. Nathan Hale
What document is this phrase from: “We
hold these Truths to be self-evident, that
all Men are created equal, that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights,…”
A. The Constitution
B. The Declaration of Independence
C. The Articles of Confederation
What document is this phrase from:
“…That among these are life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness.”
A. The Treaty of Paris
B. The Articles of Confederation
C. The Declaration of
Independence
Who wrote: “The best and only
safe road to honor, glory, and true
dignity is justice.”
A. George Washington
B. John Adams
C. Patrick Henry
Who wrote: “The whole art of
government consists in the art of
being honest.”
A. Benjamin Franklin
B. Thomas Jefferson
C. Patrick Henry
Who wrote: “If there must be
trouble, let it be in my day, that
my child may have peace.”
A. John Hancock
B. Nathan Hale
C. Thomas Paine
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Who said: “I have not yet begun
to fight.”
A. John Paul Jones
B. Nathan Hale
C. George Washington
What was the date of the Boston
Massacre?
A. March 5, 1769
B. March 5, 1770
C. March 5, 1775
What was the date that Virginia
became a state?
A. June 25, 1785
B. June 25, 1787
C. June 25, 1788
What was the date that
Massachusetts became a state?
A. February 6, 1788
B. February 6, 1789
C. February 6, 1790
What was the date that Maryland
became a state?
A. April 28, 1786
B. April 28, 1788
C. April 28, 1789
What was the date that New
Hampshire became a state?
A. June 21, 1786
B. June 21, 1787
C. June 21, 1788
What was the date that
Connecticut became a state?
A. January 9, 1788
B. January 9, 1789
C. January 9, 1790
What was the date that Rhode
Island became a state?
A. May 29, 1788
B. May 29, 1790
C. May 29, 1792
What was the date that Delaware
became a state?
A. December 7, 1785
B. December 7, 1787
C. December 7, 1789
What was the date that North
Carolina became a state?
A. November 21, 1787
B. November 21, 1788
C. November 21, 1789
What was the date that South
Carolina became a state?
A. May 23, 1788
B. May 23, 1789
C. May 23, 1790
What was the date that New
Jersey became a state?
A. December 18, 1786
B. December 18, 1787
C. December 18, 1788
What was the date that New
York became a state?
A. July 26, 1785
B. July 26, 1787
C. July 26, 1788
What was the date that
Pennsylvania became a state?
A. December 12, 1787
B. December 12, 1788
C. December 12, 1789
What was the date that Georgia
became a state?
A. January 2, 1787
B. January 2, 1788
C. January 2, 1789
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What act placed a high tax on
sugar and molasses that was
imported from France?
Answer: The Molasses Act
(of 1733)
What year was the Molasses Act
passed?
Answer: 1733
What year was the proclamation
passed that stopped the colonists
from settling further west than
Great Britain allowed?
Answer: 1763
What act lowered taxes on sugar
and molasses but included taxes on
other goods?
Answer: The Sugar Act (of 1764)
What year was the Sugar Act
passed?
Answer: 1764
What act gave Great Britain control
of the financial system of the
colonies?
Answer: The Currency Act
(of 1764)
What year was the Currency Act
passed?
Answer: 1764
What act placed a tax on paper
goods?
Answer: The Stamp Act (of 1765)
What year was the Stamp Act
passed?
Answer: 1765
What act required the colonists to
feed and house British troops while
they were in the colonies?
Answer: The Quartering Act
(of 1765)
What year was the Quartering Act
passed?
Answer: 1765
After the Stamp Act was repealed,
what act was passed to show the
colonists that Great Britain had a
right to govern them however they
wanted?
Answer: The Declaratory Act
What was the name of a series of
acts that added new taxes, raised
taxes, and attempted to force the
colonists to give Britain more
control over their laws and lives?
Answer: The Townshend Acts
What year were the Townshend
Acts passed?
Answer: 1767
What was the name of the event in
Boston when British soldiers fired
on colonists after months of
problems between the colonists of
Boston and the British soldiers?
Answer: The Boston Massacre
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What act attempted to give the
East India Tea Company a
monopoly on the sale of tea in the
colonies?
Answer: The Tea Act
What year was the Tea Act passed?
Answer: 1773
What was the name of the event
where colonists in Boston went to
the harbor dressed as Indians and
threw tea overboard in protest of
the Tea Act?
Answer: The Boston Tea Party
What poet fictionalized Paul
Revere’s ride?
Answer: Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
What acts included the closing of
Boston Harbor until the colonists
paid for the tea that was destroyed
in the Boston Tea Party?
Answer: The Intolerable Acts
What acts included the statement
that Great Britain would appoint
elected officials in Massachusetts?
Answer: The Intolerable Acts
What was the name for the group
of people who allied with the
British leading up to and during the
Revolutionary War?
Answer: Tories or Loyalists
What was the name for the group
of people who wanted freedom
from Britain?
Answer: Patriots
What was the name for the special
militia that could be ready in a
minute?
Answer: The Minutemen
What was another name used to
refer to the British soldiers?
Answer: Redcoats
What was the name that referred
to the German soldiers that were
hired by Britain to fight the
Patriots?
Answer: Hessians
What was the name for the treaty
that ended the Revolutionary War
and gave America its
independence?
Answer: Treaty of Paris
What was the name of John Paul
Jones’ ship?
Answer: The Bonhomme Richard
What place did Washington’s Army
stay during the winter of
1777-1778?
Answer: Valley Forge
When did Washington’s Army stay
at Valley Forge?
Answer: 1777-1778
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What acts limited the powers of the
town meeting in the Massachusetts
colony?
Answer: The Intolerable Acts
In what city did the Second
Continental Congress meet?
Answer: Philadelphia
What fort was located opposite
West Point, across the Hudson
River?
Answer: Fort Constitution
Who was the American General
who later worked for the British?
Answer: Benedict Arnold
What colonial officer attempted to
capture West Point for the British?
Answer: Benedict Arnold
Who was a spy for the Americans,
who stated, “I only regret that I
have but one life to lose for my
country.”
Answer: Nathan Hale
Who led the Green Mountain boys?
Answer: Ethan Allen
What leader of the Green Mountain
boys helped to capture Fort
Ticonderoga?
Answer: Ethan Allen
Which midnight rider warned John
Hancock and Samuel Adams that
the British were coming but was
then captured by the British?
Answer: Paul Revere
Which midnight rider left from
Boston at the same time as Paul
Revere and made it to Lexington,
but after escaping the British,
never made it to Concord?
Answer: William Dawes
Which midnight rider rode from
Lexington to Concord and was the
only one to make it to Concord?
Answer: Dr. Samuel Prescott
Who was the first person to sign
the Declaration of Independence?
Answer: John Hancock
Who became known as “the
Swamp Fox”?
Answer: Francis Marion
Who was a General and the
Commander-in-Chief of the
Continental Army?
Answer: George Washington
Who was the British Military
Governor of Massachusetts?
Answer: General Thomas Gage
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Who was the King of England at
the time of the Revolutionary War?
Answer: King George III
Who was the British General who
surrendered to General George
Washington at Yorktown?
Answer: General Lord Charles
Cornwallis
Who succeeded General Sir William
Howe as the British Commander-
in-Chief in the colonies?
Answer: General Henry Clinton
Who was the British Commander-
in-Chief that captured New York
and Philadelphia?
Answer: General Sir William Howe
Who was the British major who
conspired with Benedict Arnold and
was later hung as a spy?
Answer: Major Andre
What British officer led the relief
column at Lexington and Concord,
and later led the storming of Fort
Washington?
Answer: Lt. Gen. Hugh Percy
Who was a British marine that was
at the Battle of Lexington and
Concord and was later killed at the
Battle of Bunker Hill?
Answer: Major John Pitcairn
Who was the British commander
during the Battle of Lexington and
Concord?
Answer: Maj. Gen. Francis Smith
Who surrendered Fort Ticonderoga
to the Americans?
Answer: Captain William DeLaPlace
At what battle did the British finally
surrender, ending the fighting in
the colonies during the
Revolutionary War?
Answer: Battle of Yorktown
What battle in New Jersey was one
of America’s first major victories in
the Revolutionary War?
Answer: Battle of Trenton
What battle was considered the
turning point of the Revolutionary
War?
Answer: Battle of Saratoga
What New York fort was captured
by Ethan Allen and Benedict
Arnold?
Answer: Fort Ticonderoga
What were the first battles of the
Revolutionary War?
Answer: Battles of Lexington and
Concord
What battle was fought in Canada
in an attempt to have the
Canadians fight on the side of the
Americans?
Answer: Battle of Quebec
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The American surrender after the
Siege of Charleston caused the
biggest loss of what during the
Revolutionary War?
Answer: Troops
What was the turning point of the
war in the Southern Colonies?
Answer: Battle of Cowpens
Washington crossed the Delaware
to attack what city on December
25, 1776?
Answer: Trenton
In what year did the Boston
Massacre take place?
Answer: 1770
In what year did Virginia become a
state?
Answer: 1788
In what year did Massachusetts
become a state?
Answer: 1788
In what year did New Hampshire
become a state?
Answer: 1788
In what year did Maryland become
a state?
Answer: 1788
In what year did Connecticut
become a state?
Answer: 1788
In what year did Rhode Island
become a state?
Answer: 1790
In what year did Delaware become
a state?
Answer: 1787
In what year did North Carolina
become a state?
Answer: 1789
In what year did South Carolina
become a state?
Answer: 1788
In what year did New York become
a state?
Answer: 1788
In what year did New Jersey
become a state?
Answer: 1787
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In what year did Georgia become a
state?
Answer: 1788
In what year did Pennsylvania
become a state?
Answer: 1787
In what year did the Battles of
Lexington and Concord take place?
Answer: 1775
In what year did the capture of
Fort Ticonderoga take place?
Answer: 1775
In what year did the Battle of
Bunker Hill take place?
Answer: 1775
In what year did the Battle of
Bennington take place?
Answer: 1777
In what year did the Battle of
Quebec take place?
Answer: 1775
In what year did the Battle of Long
Island take place?
Answer: 1776
In what year did the Battle of
Trenton take place?
Answer: 1776
In what year did the Battle of
Princeton take place?
Answer: 1777
In what year did the Battle of
Yorktown take place?
Answer: 1781
In what year did the Battle of
Valcour Bay take place?
Answer: 1776
In what year did the Battle of
Saratoga take place?
Answer: 1777
In what year did the Battle of
Brandywine take place?
Answer: 1777
In what year did the Battle of
Germantown take place?
Answer: 1777
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In what year did the Battle of
Monmouth take place?
Answer: 1778
In what year did the Battle of
Camden take place?
Answer: 1780
In what year did the Battle of Kings
Mountain take place?
Answer: 1780
In what year did the Battle of
Cowpens take place?
Answer: 1781
In what year did Paul Revere’s ride
take place?
Answer: 1775
In what year did the Battle of
Guilford Courthouse take place?
Answer: 1781
Who was the author of Common
Sense?
Answer: Thomas Paine
In what colony did the Battles of
Lexington and Concord take place?
Answer: Massachusetts
In what colony did the Battle of
Bunker Hill take place?
Answer: Massachusetts
In what colony did the Battle of
Long Island take place?
Answer: New York
In what colony did the Battle of
Trenton take place?
Answer: New Jersey
In what colony did the Battle of
Princeton take place?
Answer: New Jersey
In what colony did the Battle of
Monmouth take place?
Answer: New Jersey
Was Horatio Gates an American or
British military leader?
Answer: American
Was Nathanael Greene an
American or British military leader?
Answer: American
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Was William Heath an American or
British military leader?
Answer: American
Was Henry Knox an American or
British military leader?
Answer: American
Was Benjamin Lincoln an American
or British military leader?
Answer: American
Was Marquis de Lafayette a
military leader for the Americans or
the British?
Answer: American
Was William Prescott an American
or British military leader?
Answer: American
Was Casimir Pulaski a military lead-
er for the Americans or the British?
Answer: American
Who became known as the “Father
of the American Cavalry?”
Answer: Casimir Pulaski
Was Friedrich von Steuben a mili-
tary leader for the Americans or
the British?
Answer: American
Was George Rogers Clark an
American or British military leader?
Answer: American
Was Banastre Tarleton an
American or British military leader?
Answer: British
Was Baron von Riedesel a military
leader for the Americans or the
British?
Answer: British
Was William Tyron an American or
British military leader?
Answer: British
Was Richard Prescott an American
or British military leader?
Answer: British
Was Joseph Brant an American or
British military leader?
Answer: British
Was Robert Pigot an American or
British military leader?
Answer: British
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Was Patrick Ferguson an American
or British military leader?
Answer: British
What battle was fought 10 miles
from Bennington, Vermont, in New
York State and was a major victory
for the colonists?
Answer: Battle of Bennington
In what colony did the Battle of
Bennington take place?
Answer: New York
What battle was fought at
Freeman’s Farm and Bemis
Heights?
Answer: Battle of Saratoga
What colonial victory helped the
colonists form a treaty of alliance
with France?
Answer: Battle of Saratoga
In what colony did the Battle of
Saratoga take place?
Answer: New York
Where was the colonial army
camped when Baron von Steuben
helped them learn more military
discipline during the winter of
1777-1778?
Answer: Valley Forge
In what colony was Valley Forge?
Answer: Pennsylvania
Who commanded the British troops
at the Battle of Bunker Hill?
Answer: Major General William
Howe
Who commanded the Colonial
troops at the Battle of Bunker Hill?
Answer: Colonel William Prescott
What hill was the Battle of Bunker
Hill fought on?
Answer: Breed’s Hill
What was the name of the treaty between
the colonies and France that created a
military alliance in which both sides agreed
not to sign a separate peace treaty with
Great Britain, unless Britain signed a peace
treaty with both countries and agreed that
American Independence must be part of
any treaty that was signed?
Answer: Treaty of Alliance with France
What year was the Treaty of
Alliance with France signed?
Answer: 1778
What was the name of the treaty
that was signed with France that
promoted trade and business ties
between France and the colonies?
Answer: Treaty of Amity and
Commerce
In what year was the Treaty of
Amity and Commerce signed?
Answer: 1778
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Along with Silas Dean and Arthur
Lee, what other diplomat helped
negotiate the Treaty of Alliance
and Treaty of Amity and Commerce
with France?
Answer: Benjamin Franklin
Was the Battle of Monmouth a win,
loss, or a draw for the colonial
army?
Answer: Draw
Was the Battle of Bunker Hill a win,
loss, or a draw for the colonial
army?
Answer: Loss
What two generals led the colonial
army at the Battle of Monmouth?
Answer: General George
Washington and Major General
Charles Lee
What two generals led the British
army at the Battle of Monmouth?
Answer: General Sir Henry Clinton
and Major General Cornwallis
Who were the two colonial leaders,
who led the attack on Quebec?
Answer: Colonel Benedict Arnold
and General Richard Montgomery
What year marked the organization
of the American Naval Force?
Answer: 1775
What New York fort did the colonial
army, led by Brigadier General
Antony Wayne, recapture on July
16, 1779?
Answer: Stony Point
In what colony was the fort of
Stony Point?
Answer: New York
Who was the commander of the
British troops at Stony Point when
the colonial army recaptured the
fort on July 16, 1779?
Answer: Lt. General Henry Johnson
Who is known as “The Father of
the American Navy”?
Answer: John Paul Jones
What was the name of the British
ship that fought the Bonhomme
Richard?
Answer: HMS Serapis
In the naval battle between the
Bonhomme Richard and the HMS
Serapis, which ship won?
Answer: Bonhomme Richard
What happened to the Bonhomme
Richard after it won the battle with
the HMS Serapis?
Answer: It sank
Who was the commander of the
Continental Army troops that
fought in the Battle of Camden?
Answer: General Horatio Gates
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Who was the commander of the
British forces that fought in the
Battle of Camden?
Answer: General Charles Cornwallis
In what colony did the Battle of
Valcour Bay take place?
Answer: New York
Was the Battle of Camden a win,
loss, or a draw for the colonial
army?
Answer: Loss
Was the Battle of Valcour Bay a
win, loss, or a draw for the colonial
army?
Answer: Loss
In what colony did the Battle of
Camden take place?
Answer: South Carolina
In what colony did the Battle of
Kings Mountain take place?
Answer: South Carolina
In what colony did the Battle of
Cowpens take place?
Answer: South Carolina
Was the Battle of Kings Mountain a
win, loss, or a draw for the colonial
army?
Answer: Win
Was the Battle of Cowpens a win,
loss, or a draw for the colonial
army?
Answer: Win
Was the Battle of Guilford
Courthouse a win, loss, or a draw
for the colonial army?
Answer: Loss
In what colony did the Battle of
Guilford Courthouse take place?
Answer: North Carolina
Was the Battle of Trenton a win,
loss, or a draw for the colonial
army?
Answer: Win
Was the Battle of Princeton a win,
loss, or a draw for the colonial
army?
Answer: Win
Who commanded the British-
Hessian army at the Battle of
Brandywine?
Answer: General Sir William Howe
Who commanded the colonial army
at the Battle of Brandywine?
Answer: General George
Washington
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In what colony did the Battle of
Brandywine take place?
Answer: Pennsylvania
In what year were the Articles of
Confederation ratified by all of the
colonies?
Answer: 1781
What document guided the
government of the new country
until the U.S. Constitution was
implemented?
Answer: The Articles of
Confederation
Was the Battle of Brandywine a
win, loss, or a draw for the colonial
army?
Answer: Loss
Was the Battle of Germantown a
win, loss, or a draw for the colonial
army?
Answer: Loss
In what colony did the Battle of
Germantown take place?
Answer: Pennsylvania
Approximately how long did the
Battle of Yorktown last?
Answer: Three weeks
Who surrendered to George
Washington at the Battle of
Yorktown?
Answer: General Lord Charles
Cornwallis
Which signer of the Treaty of Paris
was also an inventor?
Answer: Benjamin Franklin
What year was the final Treaty of
Paris signed?
Answer: 1783
What year was the Treaty of Paris
ratified by the Continental
Congress?
Answer: 1784
Who was the British Secretary of
State (also called colonial
secretary) for the American
Colonies at the beginning of the
Revolutionary War?
Answer: Lord George Germain
What British politician was in favor
of continuing the war after the
surrender at Yorktown?
Answer: Lord George Germain
Who was the British General that
laid siege to Charleston, South
Carolina?
Answer: General Henry Clinton
Who ordered the British troops to
Lexington and Concord?
Answer: Sir Thomas Gage
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What British officer, who had
ordered the British troops to
Lexington and Concord, was
recalled to England after the Battle
of Bunker Hill?
Answer: Sir Thomas Gage
Who was the Commander-in-Chief
of the British forces at the
beginning of the Revolutionary
War?
Answer: General William Howe
Who succeeded Sir Henry Clinton
as the British Commander-in-Chief
in North America after the
surrender at Yorktown?
Answer: Sir Guy Carleton
Who was the Prime Minister of
England during the Revolutionary
War?
Answer: Lord North
Which British politician introduced
the Intolerable Acts?
Answer: Lord North
Which British officer was also a
playwright?
Answer: General John Burgoyne
Which British officer captured Fort
Ticonderoga?
Answer: General John Burgoyne
Which British officer was a half-
brother to James Smithson, the
founder of the Smithsonian
Institution?
Answer: Lt. General Hugh Percy
Who was the British cavalry
commander known for his cruel
treatment of the colonials, who
tried and failed to capture Francis
Marion (the Swamp Fox)?
Answer: Banastre Tarleton
Who was the British officer that
was defeated at the Battle of
Cowpens?
Answer: Banastre Tarleton
Who was the wife of John Adams
and the mother of John Quincy
Adams?
Answer: Abigail Adams
Who was captured by the British
during the invasion of Canada and
was held prisoner for three years?
Answer: Ethan Allen
Who was the president of the
Massachusetts Provincial Congress?
Answer: John Hancock
Who was the President of the
Second Continental Congress?
Answer: John Hancock
What was John Hancock’s
occupation before the war?
Answer: Merchant/Businessman
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Which general of the Continental
Army became the first President of
the United States?
Answer: George Washington
Who was the president of the
Constitutional Convention?
Answer: George Washington
Who was the first to propose a
Continental Congress?
Answer: Samuel Adams
Who helped to organize the Boston
Tea Party?
Answer: Samuel Adams
Who said: “I have not yet begun to
fight.”
Answer: John Paul Jones
Whose second cousin became the
second president of the United
States?
Answer: Samuel Adams
What was Nathan Hale’s
occupation before the war?
Answer: Teacher
What was George Washington’s
occupation before the war?
Answer: Surveyor
What was Paul Revere’s occupation
before the war?
Answer: Silversmith
Who printed the first currency for
the new nation?
Answer: Paul Revere
What colonial leader was a
silversmith who opened the first
copper rolling mill in the United
States?
Answer: Paul Revere
Who was a seamstress who
supplied flags to the Pennsylvania
Navy?
Answer: Betsy Ross
Who is credited with making the
first American flag?
Answer: Betsy Ross
What was Patrick Henry’s
occupation before the war?
Answer: Lawyer
What leader of the revolution was
not in favor of the Constitution
until it contained the Bill of Rights?
Answer: Patrick Henry
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Who was the first governor of the
Commonwealth of Virginia?
Answer: Patrick Henry
What writer who wrote, “These are
the times that try men’s souls.”
worked to raise money in the
colonies and France to help the
American troops?
Answer: Thomas Paine
What writer of Common Sense
served as a clerk in the General
Assembly of Pennsylvania?
Answer: Thomas Paine
Who was the wife of the first
President of the United States?
Answer: Martha Washington
What was John Adams’ occupation
before the war?
Answer: Lawyer
Who, along with Benjamin Franklin
and John Jay, was sent to France
to help negotiate the Treaty of
Paris?
Answer: John Adams
Who was the first Vice President of
the United States?
Answer: John Adams
Who, along with Benjamin Franklin
and John Adams, was sent to
France to help negotiate the Treaty
of Paris?
Answer: John Jay
What city was nicknamed “The
Cradle of Liberty”?
Answer: Boston
Who gave the instructions for Paul
Revere to ride to Lexington and
warn Hancock and Adams that the
British were coming?
Answer: Dr. Joseph Warren
Who was a female slave and also a
published poet?
Answer: Phillis Wheatley
What name did Mary McCauley
become known by because of
carrying water to the colonial
soldiers during the Battle of
Monmouth?
Answer: Molly Pitcher
What woman took over firing her
husband’s cannon after he was
injured at the Battle of Monmouth?
Answer: Molly Pitcher/Mary
McCauley
Who was captured by Banastre
Tarleton at White’s Tavern in
Basking Ridge, New Jersey, in
1776?
Answer: General Charles Lee
What was Nathaniel Greene’s
religious background before the
war?
Answer: He was a Quaker
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What was General Henry Knox’s
occupation before the war?
Answer: Bookseller
Who was the first Adjutant General
of the U.S. Army?
Answer: Horatio Gates
Who said: “Those who invalidate
reason ought seriously to consider
whether they argue against reason
with or without reason.”
Answer: Ethan Allen
Who said: “If ever a time should
come, when vain and aspiring men
shall possess the highest seats in
Government, our country will stand
in need of its experienced patriots
to prevent its ruin.”
Answer: Samuel Adams
Who said: “The Constitution shall
never be construed to prevent the
people of the United States who
are peaceable citizens from
keeping their own arms.”
Answer: Samuel Adams
Who said: “Humanity has won its
battle. Liberty now has a country.”
Answer: Marquis de Lafayette
Who came to the U.S. from France
as a volunteer with the Colonial
Army and received no pay?
Answer: Marquis de Lafayette
Who was appointed as a Major
General in the Colonial Army after
coming to the United States from
France as a volunteer?
Answer: Marquis de Lafayette
What Frenchman spent the winter
at Valley Forge with George
Washington and the colonial army?
Answer: Marquis de Lafayette
Who said: “Is life so dear, or peace
so sweet, as to be purchased at
the price of chains and slavery?”
Answer: Patrick Henry
Who said: “I know not what course
others may take; but as for me,
give me liberty, or give me death!”
Answer: Patrick Henry
What document is this phrase
from: “We hold these Truths to be
self-evident, that all Men are
created equal, that they are
endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable Rights,…”
Answer: The Declaration of
Independence
What document is this phrase
from: “…That among these are life,
liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness.”
Answer: The Declaration of
Independence
Who wrote: “The best and only
safe road to honor, glory, and true
dignity is justice.”
Answer: George Washington
Who wrote: “The whole art of
government consists in the art of
being honest.”
Answer: Thomas Jefferson
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Who wrote: “If there must be
trouble, let it be in my day, that my
child may have peace.”
Answer: Thomas Paine
What was the date that Georgia
became a state?
Answer: January 2, 1788
What was the date of the Boston
Massacre?
Answer: March 5, 1770
What was the date that Virginia
became a state?
Answer: June 25, 1788
What was the date that
Massachusetts became a state?
Answer: February 6, 1788
What was the date that Maryland
became a state?
Answer: April 28, 1788
What was the date that New
Hampshire became a state?
Answer: June 21, 1788
What was the date that
Connecticut became a state?
Answer: January 9, 1788
What was the date that Rhode
Island became a state?
Answer: May 29, 1790
What was the date that Delaware
became a state?
Answer: December 7, 1787
What was the date that North
Carolina became a state?
Answer: November 21, 1789
What was the date that South
Carolina became a state?
Answer: May 23, 1788
What was the date that New Jersey
became a state?
Answer: December 18, 1787
What was the date that New York
became a state?
Answer: July 26, 1788
What was the date that
Pennsylvania became a state?
Answer: December 12, 1787
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