The American Revolution: Fighting for Freedom

Which quotation from the text does NOT support the inference that the Culper Spy Ring was very secretive?

• “Then, they were all given code names.”

• “They also wrote in code.”

• “These men and women were Patriots.”

• “They even hung laundry on clotheslines to signal each other.”

What caused the end of the American Revolution?

• The British lost more battles than the Americans.

• The Americans were defeated by the French.

• The Americans lost control of their major forts

• The British were defeated at Yorktown.

Which battle(s) proved to be the turning point for Americans to win the war?

• Lexington and Concord

• Saratoga

• Yorktown

• Trenton

What inference can be made based on the title The American Revolution: Fighting for Freedom?

• The American Revolution was about America’s independence.

• The Americans did not want to go to war.

• There was little chance that war would break out.

• The British were much better prepared than the Americans.

Captain John Parker told his men, “Stand your ground. Don’t fire unless fired upon.” What did he mean?

• The men should never use their weapons.

• He did not believe in war.

• The colonists should surrender if war started.

• He did not want to start the war, but he wanted his men to defend themselves

_____ was a Prussian military man who helped train American soldiers at Valley Forge.

• General George Washington

• General Charles Cornwallis

• Baron Friedrich von Steuben

• Captain John Parker