The History of Our United States Quiz 2

Match the following

• James Caldwell

• battle that affected control of New York Harbor

• John Paul Jones

• preacher who used hymnals to help the Patriots

• Green Mountain Boys

• captured by Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain

  Boys

• Battle of Brooklyn

• captain of the Bonhomme Richard

• Fort Ticonderoga

• group led by Ethan Allen

Match the following

• Declaration of Independence

• British army leader defeated by Nathanael Greene

• James Armistead

• spy for the Continental Army

• Northwest Territory

• German soldiers hired by the British

• General Cornwallis

• new land included in Treaty of Paris

• Hessians

•  turning point of the War for Independence

Match the following

• Delaware River

•  river that Washington and his men crossed on

  Christmas night

• Valley Forge

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

• Olive Branch Petition

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

• Battle of Kings Mountain

• document refused by King George III

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?