o This confrontation on the wintery streets of a leading Massachusetts city resulted in British troops firing on an angry mob of American colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre?
100
This was the first major battle of the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
100
British monarch at the time of the Revolution.
Who is George III?
100
This was the cause of George's great sadness as a boy.
What is the death of his father?
100
A word meaning "friends in war."
What is "allies."
200
o Lasting from 1754 to 1763, this conflict ended in victory for the British but created an enormous debt for King George III.
What is the French & Indian War?
200
o On Christmas morning, 1776, Washington and his army crossed this important body of water near Trenton, New Jersey in order to launch a surprise attack on Hessian mercenaries.
What is the Delaware River?
200
British commander at Yorktown.
Who is Cornwallis?
200
He taught George all he needed to know about being a Virginia gentleman, including sword-fighting.
Who is Lawrence, George's half-brother.
200
This man fired the first shot at this important 1781 battle in Virginia.
Who is George Washington?
300
o Parliament passed this series of laws to punish the colonies for the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
300
o British General Thomas Gage led his troops to these towns to seize colonists' weapons and to arrest John Hancock & Sam Adams.
What is Lexington & Concord?
300
This American naval hero took on much larger vessels and who defied a British sea captain with these words: "I have not yet begun to fight."
Who is John Paul Jones?
300
George's great character flaw as an adult.
What is George's volcanic temper?
300
These words were uttered during what important event of the Revolutionary War?
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes?"
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
400
This law forced American families to house British soldiers and provide them with food.
What is the Quartering Act?
400
o In this "turning point" battle of 1777, the American Army forced the surrender of 5,000 British soldiers.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
400
A famous water-bearer who is said to have operated her husband's artillery weapon after he was wounded in the Battle of Monmouth.
Who is Molly Pitcher?
400
What George begged Congress to provide while headquartered at Valley Forge.
What are food, clothing, shoes, ammunition, blankets
400
From the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River, from Florida to the Great Lakes.
What were the borders of the United States after the Revolutionary War?
500
A word that means "working against your government"
What is treason?
500
This is what the French seaborne forces did to cut off supplies to the lobsterbacks in Yorktown.
What is a naval blockade?
500
This British general and his 1500 troops, including George Washington, were badly defeated at the Battle of Fort Necessity during the French and Indian War.
Who is General Braddock?
500
George took 900 Hessian mercenaries prisoner during this battle on Christmas, 1776
What is the Battle of Trenton?
500
American spy who posed as a school teacher and reportedly went to the gallows saying, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."