Declaration of Independence
Battle of Trenton
Battle of Trenton and Princeton
Valley Forge
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100
Due to this requirement on the vote for Independence, those in favor of Independence wanted to stall the vote, and choose a Committee to draft a Declaration while they could cajol others to support the resolution for Independence.
What is unanimous?
100
General Washington knew that he had to manufacture a victory against the enemy, and decided that this type of attack was the best option, even if it was the least honorable one.
What is a sneak attack?
100
When Washington engaged with the English Army in the streets of Trenton, he used various diversionary tactics to keep his army from being overwhelmed, and thus could only spare this many men for the ruse of setting up camp south of the city.
What is 100?
100
By the winter of 1777, the Continental Congress fled to Lancaster, PA, while the British settled into this now conquered capital of the United States, forcing Washington to trap them in the city by setting up his winter encampment at Valley Forge.
What is Philadelphia?
100
This biblical king is often depicted as holding the head of a dead giant aloft.
Who is King David?
200
The Declaration of Independence was written in this form, which considers all who read it to be the intended recipient of the Declaration, and to ensure all understood why the colonies felt compelled to break away from Great Britain.
What is an Open Letter?
200
Desperately in need of a victory by Christmas 1776, George Washington felt he was facing a mass mutiny by his troops as their enlistment contracts expired, while others simply did this, also known as AWOL and a criminal offense in the Military.
What is Deserted?
200
General Howe sent a portion of his garrison from New York Harbor, along with the army under this English General stationed in Princeton, NJ, to attack and trap Washington at Trenton.
Who is Lord Cornwallis?
200
Using his new aide-de-camp, Alexander Hamilton, as a sounding board, Washington replaced many officers in the Continental Army, especially these people whose job it was to track food and supplies.
Who are Quartermasters?
200
While he still believed in the beauty of his speech at the Lincoln Memorial, in his last days, this man admitted that he may have solidified the end of the Civil Rights by investing Black America into a dying culture.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
300
Even though Thomas Jefferson was chosen overwhelmingly to write the Declaration of Independence, most in Congress believed this man would be its author, since he was considered to be a just and thoughtful man, able to articulate the legal issues down to their purest simplicities, even if they thought the man obnoxious and often disliked him in public.
Who is John Adams?
300
These mercenaries were stationed at the strategic curve in the Delaware River, as Great Britain hoped they would check the movements of the Continental Congress and build a stronghold out of Trenton from which British Justice could swiftly descend upon Philadelphia.
Who are the Hessians?
300
This city acted as a garrison and stronghold of the English Military under Lord Cornwallis, whose specific orders were to defeat the Continental Army by any means necessary.
What is Princeton?
300
While at Valley Forge, this German Baron from the Prussian Kingdom volunteered to drill the men and turn them into a properly trained fighting force.
Who was Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben?
300
In Physics, it is known that when one increases their velocity, time begins to do this.
What is slow down?
400
Congress removed nearly this much of the document when they edited the Declaration of Independence.
What is 1/4?
400
This man was killed in the opening salvo of the Battle of Trenton, forcing a Hessian lieutenant to surrender to Wahsington's representative.
Who was the Hessian Commander?
400
After this Battle, Washington changed his strategy in war against the British, avoiding any open battlefields, and instead relied heavily on terrain, tactics, and weather to give him this.
What is an advantage?
400
While often portrayed as a harsh winter, the winter of 1777-1778 was mild by comparison. Instead, it was this hardship, more than any other that led to Valley Forge being infamous.
What is disease?
400
Johnathon Harker fears his beloved Wilhelmina has fallen under the spell of this titular villain.
Who is Dracula?
500
The passage beginning with "he has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither." was removed from the Declaration of Independence for this reason.
What is it was against slavery?
500
These three inaccuracies in the image above are what make it a 'false historical account' of the crossing of the Delaware.
What is it is daytime, the boat isn't flat, and the ice is in chunks?
500
Supposedly it was this man who ordered the American cannons to open fire on Nassau Hall at Princeton University, which destroyed a famous depiction of King George III.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
500
During his time at Valley Forge, George Washington would often get up early in the morning, before the sun rose, and would head out into the local woodlands there, in order to do this in private.
What is pray for victory?
500
Lovers of dominos, riding motorcycles, and sitting around drinking beer, these were the three professional wrestlers who were founding members of the Bone Street Crew.
Who are Yokozuna, the Godfather, and the Undertaker?