Liberty Kids Episode 17

What is Ben Franklin's mission?

• To get France to help the Americans

• To get Spain to help the Americans

How old is Benjamin Franklin when he goes to France?

• 60

• 70

Who is Sarah going to join?

• General Washington and his men

• A group of women and children who are following the army. They are mostly family members of the soldiers.

Who is this woman?

• Margaret Corbin (people call her Molly)

• George Washington's wife

Molly...

• has had a rough life. Her husband John joined the army and she would have been left alone in the wilderness if she didn't follow him.

• wishes her husband John would fight for the British instead of the colonists.

What is General Howe (the British leader) asking for?

• He wants George Washington to turn himself in.

• He wants the Americans to surrender Fort Washington. They are going to fight instead.

The British King recruited Germans to fight for the British. They were

• the minutemen.

• the French legion.

• the Hessians.

What just happened!?

• Molly's husband John was killed or injured. So she took over the cannon herself and now she got injured!

• The British captured Molly.

What was the result of the battle at Fort Washington?

• The Colonials defended the fort.

• The British took the fort.

True or False

After the battle of Fort Washington, General Washington was ready to give up.

• True

• False