The History of Our United States Quiz 2

Match the following

• Green Mountain Boys

• preacher who used hymnals to help the Patriots

• Battle of Brooklyn

• captain of the Bonhomme Richard

• John Paul Jones

• captured by Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain

  Boys

• James Caldwell

• group led by Ethan Allen

• Fort Ticonderoga

• battle that affected control of New York Harbor

Match the following

• Declaration of Independence

• German soldiers hired by the British

• Northwest Territory

• spy for the Continental Army

• James Armistead

• new land included in Treaty of Paris

• General Cornwallis

• British army leader defeated by Nathanael Greene

• Hessians

•  turning point of the War for Independence

Match the following

• Battle of Kings Mountain

•  river that Washington and his men crossed on

  Christmas night

• Delaware River

•  place where Washington and his men spent the worst winter of the war

• Olive Branch Petition

• document refused by King George III

• Valley Forge

•  battle in South Carolina that kept the British from invading North Carolina

Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?

Which country sent soldiers and supplies to help the Continental

Army?

 In what year did the American War for Independence end?

In what year was the Declaration of Independence signed?

 After what battle did England surrender?

 In what treaty did England give up its thirteen colonies?