The History of Our United States Quiz 2

Match the following

• Fort Ticonderoga

• battle that affected control of New York Harbor

• James Caldwell

• group led by Ethan Allen

• John Paul Jones

• captain of the Bonhomme Richard

• Green Mountain Boys

• preacher who used hymnals to help the Patriots

• Battle of Brooklyn

• captured by Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain

  Boys

Match the following

• Declaration of Independence

• British army leader defeated by Nathanael Greene

• General Cornwallis

• German soldiers hired by the British

• Northwest Territory

•  turning point of the War for Independence

• James Armistead

• new land included in Treaty of Paris

• Hessians

• spy for the Continental Army

Match the following

• Delaware River

•  river that Washington and his men crossed on

  Christmas night

• Battle of Kings Mountain

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

• Olive Branch Petition

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

• Valley Forge

• document refused by King George III

Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?

(a)  

Which country sent soldiers and supplies to help the Continental

Army?

(a)  

 In what year did the American War for Independence end?

(a)  

In what year was the Declaration of Independence signed?

(a)  

 After what battle did England surrender?

(a)  

 In what treaty did England give up its thirteen colonies?

(a)