The American Revolution

In the middle 1700's the French wanted to stop the British from moving west in the new land. What did they build to try to stop them?

• Fort Schuyler

• Fort Ticonderoga

• Fort Duquesne

• Fort Hamilton

Who was a leader the British in the French and Indian War?

• Lafayette

• Ethan Allen

• George Washington

• Benjamin Tallmadge

After the British successfully won the French and Indian war, they were in debt. To fund the war effort, what did they do to the colonists?

• Start a national bank

• Place taxes on newspapers, stamps and pamphlets

• Collect money from France

• Trade with the Native Americans

The "shot heard round the world" happened in

• 1778

• 1776

• 1779

• 1775

Colonial leaders gathered in this city to talk about how to deal with Great Britain

• Yorktown

• Brooklyn

• Gettysburg

• Philadelphia

At the Battle of Saratoga, the British were defeated by which General?

• Horatio Gates

• Charles Cornwallis

• Richard Henry Lee

• Joseph Brant

George Washington counted on spies to help him win the war. Name the Long Island Spy Ring

• The Pepper Ring

• The Colonial Ring

• The Culper Ring

• The Townshend Ring

Who was the young girl who bravely rode to warn the American soldiers that the British were marching close by?

• Molly Pitcher

• Paula Revere

• Abigail Adams

• Sybil Luddington

Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys planned an attack on a place occupied by the British and won. What was that place?

• Fort Tigonderoga

• Fort Duquesne

• Fort Hamilton

• Fort Brooklyn

Match the following

• Wrote the Declaration of Independence

• Thomas Jefferson

• A protest of the unfair British taxes

• Red Coat or Lobsterback

• British surrendered here and the war ended

• Yorktown

• A person who remained true to Great Britain

• The Boston Tea Party

• A term for British Soldiers

• Loyalist