The History of Our United States Quiz 2

Match the following

• Green Mountain Boys

• battle that affected control of New York Harbor

• Fort Ticonderoga

• captain of the Bonhomme Richard

• John Paul Jones

• preacher who used hymnals to help the Patriots

• James Caldwell

• captured by Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain

  Boys

• Battle of Brooklyn

• group led by Ethan Allen

Match the following

• General Cornwallis

• German soldiers hired by the British

• Declaration of Independence

• spy for the Continental Army

• Hessians

• new land included in Treaty of Paris

• James Armistead

• British army leader defeated by Nathanael Greene

• Northwest Territory

•  turning point of the War for Independence

Match the following

• Valley Forge

• document refused by King George III

• Battle of Kings Mountain

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

• Delaware River

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

• Olive Branch Petition

•  river that Washington and his men crossed on

  Christmas night

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)