Historic Events
Battles
Important People/groups
All about George
Miscellaneous
100
The document that announced our separation from England.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
100
Battle on a hill in Boston where General Putnam said "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes"...
What is Bunker Hill?
100
People for the British were called Loyalists, people for a new country were called...
What are Patriots?
100
George's first job as a young man...
What was surveyor?
100
Wrote the declaration of Independence?
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
200
Taxes were raised by the British in 1763 to pay for ...
What is the French and Indian War?
200
The battle that convinced the French to help the US...
What is Saratoga?
200
Name the British general who surrendered to the Americans...
Who was Cornwallis?
200
What job was given to GW by the second continental congress?
What was general or head of Continental Army?
200
Midnight ride to warn the Patriots that British were coming...
Who was Paul Revere?
300
Second continental congress's most important act was to create ...
What is an army?
300
Fighting began on April 19, 1775. This important battle in Concord became know as...
What is the shot heard round the world?
300
John Paul Jones, captain of the American ship, shouted out " I have not yet ..."
What is begun to fight?
300
His wife joined him at times to help nurse injured soldiers.. her name
Who was Martha?
300
signed his name rather large on the Declaration of Independence...
Who was John Hancock?
400
Purpose of the committee of correspondence ...
What is get info to all the colonies, unify the cause?
400
The spot where the British surrendered...
What is Yorktown?
400
Poet who was a slave and wrote poems about GW... a. Jane Burgess b. Phyllis Wheatley c. Sybil Ludington
Who was B- Phyllis Wheatley?
400
GW designed an award to be given to soldiers wounded or killed in the line of duty...
What is the Purple Heart award?
400
King of England...
Who was King George III?
500
Sons of liberty let their disgust with new taxes on December 16, 1773 known as ...
What is the Boston Tea Party?
500
GW crossed the Delaware River to Trenton and surprised the British. Why was this so unexpected?
What is it happened on Christmas Day?
500
Nickname Mary Hays received at the battle at Monmouth where she brought water and fired the cannon...
What was Molly Pitcher?
500
Winter of 1777-1778 - very cold, few supplies, no food, etc.. Where was this at...
What is Valley Forge?
500
wrote the common sense
Who was Thomas Paine?
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