Liberty's Kids Week 19

True or False: The King now recognized the United States as an independent nation.

• True

• False

General Washington hired a spy named Nathan. What was the job he was pretending to do whilst he was spying?

• General

• cobbler

• carpenter

• teacher

What was the penalty from the British for being caught spying?

• a fine

• imprisonment

• hanging

• being forced to join the British army

Why did Benjamin Franklin go to France?

• vacation

• to live there

• to flee from the British

• to get support for the American Cause

General Washington decides to _______ Fort Washington.

• defend

• abandon

What does Molly do when her husband dies?

• go home to her farm

• move to England

• continue to fight

• move to Boston

After losing at Fort Washington and Fort Lee, many have given up _____.

• land

• money

• hope

• chocolate

Thomas Paine writes a famous piece for George Washington. The first line reads:

• It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

• Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free...

• To be or not to be, that is the question.

• These are the times that try men's souls.

A rider comes with an important dispatch - what has happened to General Lee?

• He was killed.

• He was captured.

• He was very sick.

• He was a British spy.

Why are some of the colonists planning to quit the army and go home?

• They want a vacation.

• They are too hot in their uniforms.

• They are cold and hungry.

• They miss their families too much.