Revolution
What year did the Revolutionary War start?
1775
Who left Wespoint vulnerable?
Benedict Arnold.
What could you get for $15M in 1803?
Half a billion acres, the Louisiana Purchase.
$75M in 1790.
National debt from Revolutionary War. BTW, income was ~$5M.
Who wrote the Bill of Rights?
Welcome to MADISON, Wisconsin!
What year did the Revolutionary War end?
1783
Academy Award for best actress in 1780, Villian Category?
Peggy Shippen, wife and co-conspirator with her husband Benedict Arnold.
In 1776 what was 'a "common sense" treatise in “terms so plain and firm, as to command [the] assent” of mankind'?
The Declaration of Independence
Yes or no, should you have bought the new federal bonds in 1790?
YES! They soared in value creating a lot of controversy.
Blame this election on prayer.
John Adams failed bid to win re-election in 1800 as America's second president.
Shot that might have won the war?
Small pox
What did Benedict Arnold do to his 'handler', John Andre, head of British secret service
Kept him in negotiations too long to the point we had to travel by foot at night with papers that showed him to be a spy - and he was hung for it.
Who was John “Jack” Jouett?
Rode 40 miles through night in dangerous conditions to warn Governor Thomas Jefferson to flee Monticello.
Who was Maria Reynolds?
Affair with Hamilton led him to publish a tell-all.
Who was Silence Dogood?
A young Ben Franklin
Who said, 'An island cannot rule a continent'?
Thomas Paine
NO!! But, it is VERY loosely based on British Colonel Tarleton.
Captain Phillip Freneau
Who was Plubius in 1787?
Alexander Hamilton writing the Federalist Papers.
An armored battalion to remind you of my love.
King George III