American Revolution Quiz Part1

A Massachusetts attorney & politician who was a strong believer in colonial independence. He argued against the Stamp Act and was involved in various patriot groups

• John Adams

• Samuel Adams

• Paul Revere

• Benjamin Franklin

He was a delegate from Virginia at the Second Continental Congress and wrote the Declaration of Independence.

• Benjamin Franklin

• Paul Revere

• Samuel Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

Patriot and writer whose pamphlet Common Sense, published in 1776, convinced many Americans that it was time to declare independence from Britain.

• Thomas Jefferson

• Paul Revere

• Thomas Paine

• Benjamin Franklin

Played a key role in the defense of colonial rights. He had been a leader of the Sons of Liberty and suggested the formation of the Committees of Correspondence.

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• Benjamin Franklin

• Samuel Adams

Commander of the Continental Army. He had led troops (rather unsuccessfully) during the French and Indian War, and had surrendered Fort Necessity to the French.

• Nathaniel Greene

• Alexander Hamilton

• Marquis de Lafayette

• George Washington

He took an early role in the militia as the American Revolutionary War began. In 1777, he became a senior aide to General Washington in running the new Continental Army.

• Alexander Hamilton

• Marquis de Lafayette

• George Washington

• Nathaniel Greene

A major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War, known for his successful command in the Southern Campaign, forcing British Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis to abandon the Carolina and head for Virginia.

• Nathaniel Green

• George Washington

• Alexander Hamilton

• Marquis de Lafayette

A free black man who was the first person killed in the Revolution at the Boston Massacre.

• Jon Snow

• Benedict Arnold

• Crispus Attucks

• Paul Revere

He was the king of England from 1760 to 1820, exercised a greater hand in the government of the American colonies than had many of his predecessors.

• King George III

• King Henry VI

• King George II

• King Henry III

American patriot, writer, printer, and inventor. During the Revolutionary War he persuaded the French to help the colonists.

• Paul Revere

• John Adams

• Samuel Adams

• Benjamin Franklin