The History of Our United States Quiz 2

Match the following

• James Caldwell

• captured by Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain

  Boys

• John Paul Jones

• captain of the Bonhomme Richard

• Fort Ticonderoga

• group led by Ethan Allen

• Green Mountain Boys

• preacher who used hymnals to help the Patriots

• Battle of Brooklyn

• battle that affected control of New York Harbor

Match the following

• James Armistead

•  turning point of the War for Independence

• Northwest Territory

• spy for the Continental Army

• General Cornwallis

• German soldiers hired by the British

• Declaration of Independence

• new land included in Treaty of Paris

• Hessians

• British army leader defeated by Nathanael Greene

Match the following

• Olive Branch Petition

•  river that Washington and his men crossed on

  Christmas night

• Valley Forge

• document refused by King George III

• Delaware River

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

• Battle of Kings Mountain

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

Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?

(a)  

Which country sent soldiers and supplies to help the Continental

Army?

(a)  

 In what year did the American War for Independence end?

(a)  

In what year was the Declaration of Independence signed?

(a)  

 After what battle did England surrender?

(a)  

 In what treaty did England give up its thirteen colonies?

(a)