American Revolution

Review Game... ANSWERS!!!

Question 1 *Representation

Complete the following…

No taxation without _____________!

Question 2 *Patriot

•What is the term for a colonist that supported the Revolution?

Question 3 *Loyalist

•What is the term for a colonist that supported ties with Great Britain?

Question 4 *Hessians

•What is the term for a paid German soldier (mercenary)?

Question 5 *Paine

•This writer promoted the revolutionary cause with his work… Common Sense.

Question 6 *Arnold

•This man was once a trusted Colonial General, but he became a traitor.

Question 7 *Allen

•This man was the leader of the Green Mountain Boys!

Question 8 *R.H. LEE

•This man introduced a resolution to declare independence from Great Britain.

Question 9 *George III

•This man was the British King during the revolution.

Question 10 *Louis XVI

•This man was the French King during the revolution.

Question 11 *Trenton

•This was Washington’s Christmas attack… a very successful one!

Question 12 *John Paul Jones

• This man is referred to as the “father of the American Navy” and he said that he had “not yet begun to fight”!!

Question 13 *Saratoga

•This battle was the turning point of the war.

Question 14 *Burgoyne

•This man was told to stop the Americans after Trenton, but he was beaten at the Battle of Saratoga.

Question 15 *Hale

• This 24-year-old Patriot spy wished he had more lives to give for the, because he was to be put to death after being caught.

Question 16 *Lafayette

•This 19-year-old Frenchman became an American general.

Question 17 * Lincoln, O’Hara

•After the Patriots won at Yorktown, __________ accepted a sword from __________.

Question 18 *Blue Team

•This is the most superior team in the history of all middle schools.

Question 19 *Molly Pitcher

•This woman could do more than just deliver water.

Question 20 *Cornwallis

• This British General was the loser that got trapped at Yorktown, then he wasn’t man enough to surrender his own sword.

Question 22 *Dr. Warren

•This man signaled the riders… envisioned his own death… then died on Breed’s Hill.

Question 23 *de Grasse

•This was a French admiral that helped us win at Yorktown, setting up a blockade in the Chesapeake.

Question 24 *Hancock

•This president of the second Continental Congress…

Signed Big

Question 25 *Locke

•This man’s philosophies are found throughout the Declaration of Independence.

Question 26 *Pitt

•This member of the House of Lords wanted to withdraw British troops from America.

Question 27 *Gage

•This man was supposed to capture Sam Adams and John Hancock prior to the war.

Question 28 *Prescott

•This man led the Patriots at the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Question 29 *Valley Forge

•During the winter of 1777-78, many Patriots froze, starved, and died here.

Question 30 *Washington

•This man led the Continental Army for 8 years, and then he returned to his home in Mount Vernon.

Question 31 *Olive Branch Petition

•Prior to the war, the Second Continental Congress sent this to the king, attempting to keep the peace.

Question 32 *Jefferson

•With a little help from his friends, this man wrote the Declaration of Independence.

Question 33 *Jay, Adams, Franklin

• Name the THREE guys that traveled to Europe to work out a peace deal with the British at the end of the war.

Question 34 *Treaty of Paris

•What treaty ended the American Revolutionary War?

Question 35 *Lord North

• Who was the British Prime Minister that was removed from office after a comment he made following Yorktown?