Test 2 The History of Our United States

Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys captured (a)   from the British.

• Fort Ticonderoga
• Bunker Hill
• the Northwest Territory

The main author of the Declaration of Independence was (a)   .

• Thomas Jefferson
• Benjamin Franklin
• John Hancock

Remembered as the "fighting parson," (a)   helped defend his town from the British using paper from hymnals.

• James Caldwell
• James Armistead
• George Rogers Clark

On Christmas night, Washington and his men crossed the (a)   to capture Trenton.

• Delaware River
• Boston Harbor
• Hudson River

After the battle of (a)   , England surrendered.

• Yorktown
• Brooklyn
• Bunker Hill

(a)   helped secure forts of the Northwest Territory from the British.

• George Rogers Clark
• Lord Cornwallis
• Nathanael Green

In the (a)   , England gave up its thirteen colonies in America.

• Treaty of Paris
• Battle of Kings Mountain
• Declaration of Independence

In a constitutional republic, the government is rub by representatives chosen by the (a)   .

• people
• king
• president

Members of the (a)   met to discuss the formation of American government.

• Constitutional Convention
• Senate
• Treaty of Paris

Match the following

• Olive Branch Petition

• List sent to King George III of changes needed for peace between England and the colonies

• Constitution of the United States

• Highest law and pattern of government for the United States today

• Declaration of Independence

• America's first plan for government

• Articles of Confederation

• document that stated the colonies were independent from English rule