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Alamance County and American Revolution

Total questions: 9

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

During the American Revolution, Alamance County was part of which county?

a)

Orange

b)

Caswell

c)

Guilford

d)

Rockingham

2.

During this battle in Alamance County, Loyalists troops would be ambushed the battle is often called

a)

Pyle's Defeat

b)

Battle of Alamance

c)

Battle of Claps Mill

d)

Battle of Lindley's Mill

3.

This group of Alamance citizens remained neutral during the Revolution

a)

Baptists

b)

Methodists

c)

Quakers

d)

Regulators

4.

Near Clapp’s Mill on Beaver Creek not far from the Alamance battlefield, Col. Henry Lee’s Legion, supported by local militia and some which Native American Group, surprised the mounted cavalry of Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton in a well-planned ambush on March 2, 1781?

a)

Catawba

b)

Cherokee

c)

Iroquois

d)

Lumbee

5.

At the Battle of Lindley's mill, the Whigs failed to rescue

a)

Governor Burke

b)

Joseph Graham

c)

John Butler

d)

Lighthorse Harry Lee

6.

The American General in charge at Guilford Courthouse was

a)

Nathanial Greene

b)

Joseph Greene

c)

George Washington

d)

Harry Lee

7.

The British general in charge at Guilford Courthouse was

a)

Lord Cornwallis

b)

Lord Tryon

c)

Lord Tarleton

d)

Governor Thomas Burke

8.

How many battles or skirmishes occurred in the what is today Alamance County?

a)

1

b)

3

c)

5

d)

7

9.

All of the following were mill battles except

a)

Weitzel's Mill

b)

Clapp's Mill

c)

Glen's Mill

d)

Lindley's Mill