The History of Our United States Quiz 2

Match the following

• Fort Ticonderoga

• captain of the Bonhomme Richard

• Battle of Brooklyn

• captured by Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain

  Boys

• Green Mountain Boys

• group led by Ethan Allen

• John Paul Jones

• battle that affected control of New York Harbor

• James Caldwell

• preacher who used hymnals to help the Patriots

Match the following

• Northwest Territory

• spy for the Continental Army

• James Armistead

• new land included in Treaty of Paris

• General Cornwallis

• British army leader defeated by Nathanael Greene

• Declaration of Independence

• German soldiers hired by the British

• Hessians

•  turning point of the War for Independence

Match the following

• Olive Branch Petition

• document refused by King George III

• Delaware River

•  battle in South Carolina that kept the British from invading North Carolina

• Battle of Kings Mountain

•  place where Washington and his men spent the worst winter of the war

• Valley Forge

•  river that Washington and his men crossed on

  Christmas night

Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?

Which country sent soldiers and supplies to help the Continental

Army?

 In what year did the American War for Independence end?

In what year was the Declaration of Independence signed?

 After what battle did England surrender?

 In what treaty did England give up its thirteen colonies?