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WorksheetsKey People of the American Revolution
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Hello I am the wife of the 2nd POTUS, and I fought for women's rights. I sent letters to my husband that started, "Remember the Ladies!"
a)
Phyllis Wheatley
b)
Martha Washington
c)
Abigail Adams
d)
Marquis de Lafayette
2.
I was the 1st Secretary of the Treasury under President Washington; I came up with a plan to get the US out of debt after the American Revolution; I was a major Federalist who supported the constitution
a)
George Cornwallis
b)
Nathanael Greene
c)
Alexander Hamilton
d)
Benjamin Franklin
3.
I served as a General during the Revolutionary War who originally fought for the Americans; he switched to the British. My name is synonymous with treason.
a)
Benjamin Rush
b)
Crispus Attucks
c)
Nathan Hale
d)
Benedict Arnold
4.
Hello, I served as the ambassador to France during the American Revolution. I experimented with electricity and wrote Poor Richard's Almanac. I'm on a large denomination of money, but I was NEVER POTUS.
a)
Thomas Jefferson
b)
Charles Cornwallis
c)
John Jay
d)
Benjamin Franklin
5.
I officially went down in U.S. history as a founding father when he became one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and I carried my medical knowledge with him through the war effort as surgeon general of the Middle Department of the army.
a)
Henry Hamilton
b)
Nathan Hale
c)
George Washington
d)
Benjamin Rush
6.
I am an African American man who was the first person killed in the American Revolution at the Boston Massacre.
a)
Crispus Attucks
b)
Charles Cornwallis
c)
Nathan Hale
d)
Nathanael Greene
7.
I was the general of the British who surrendered to Washington at Yorktown.
a)
Henry Hamilton
b)
Horatio Gates
c)
Benjamin Franklin
d)
Charles Cornwallis
8.
I became first POTUS; I was elected unanimously by the electors of the new US. I was the leader of the Continental Army.
a)
Thomas Jefferson
b)
John Adams
c)
James Madison
d)
George Washington
9.
I was a British Lieutenant governor of Ft. Detroit until its capture by the Americans in 1779.
a)
Henry Hamilton
b)
Horatio Gates
c)
Jupiter Hammon
d)
Benedict Arnold
10.
I am a retired British General who fought on the American side; he is regarded as a hero at the battle of Saratoga and a failure the Battle of Camden; I one time attempted to replace Washington in a power struggle.
a)
Horatio Gates
b)
John Jay
c)
Jupiter Hammon
d)
Nathanael Greene
11.
I was a proponent of strong, centralized government, worked to ratify the U.S. Constitution in New York in 1788 by pseudonymously writing five of The Federalist Papers, along with the main authors Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. After the establishment of the U.S. government, I became the first Chief Justice of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1795.
a)
John Jay
b)
George Washington
c)
Benjamin Franklin
d)
Benedict Arnold
12.
I was a black poet who in 1761 became the first African-American writer to be published in the present-day United States.
a)
Nathan Hale
b)
Crispus Attucks
c)
Benjamin Rush
d)
Jupiter Hammon
13.
Through my reign there were many conflicts French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and further exploration of Asia and Africa.
a)
George II
b)
George III
c)
Charles II
d)
James I
14.
Je suis le "French nobleman who helped advise Washington and led French soldiers in support of the Americans in the revolution."
a)
Comte de Tourney
b)
Marquis de Lafayette
c)
General Charles Cornwallis
d)
Maximillien Robespierre
15.
I was a teacher from New York who was hanged by the British after he attempted to find out enemy plans from the British.
a)
Nathanael Greene
b)
Nathan Hale
c)
Thomas Paine
d)
Thomas Jefferson
16.
After the failure of Horatio Gates at Camden, I was given command of the entire southern army by Washington; I forced Cornwallis back southward from VA to Guilford Courthouse where he was defeated but at great cost to the British. Ultimately I delayed Cornwallis arrival in Yorktown to allow Washington to rally forces.
a)
Nathanael Greene
b)
Henry Hamilton
c)
Horatio Gates
d)
Alexander Hamilton
17.
I was the 2nd POTUS; leading founding father and Federalist; as President I had the controversial Alien and Sedition Acts passed.
a)
George Washington
b)
James Madison
c)
John Adams
d)
John Quincey Adams
18.
I was the first published African American female poet.
a)
Abigail Adams
b)
Martha Washington
c)
Phyllis Wheatley
d)
Martha Lincoln
19.
I was the 3rd POTUS; drafter of the Declaration of the US; I purchased Louisiana from France, enacted the Embargo Act; and was president during the Barbary War.
a)
George Washington
b)
John Adams
c)
James Madison
d)
Thomas Jefferson
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