This was the first major battle of the Revolution.
What is The Battle of Bunker Hill.
100
What group of soldiers captured Fort Ticonderoga?
Who were The Green Mountain Boys?
100
This document stated we were an independent nation.
What is The Declaration of Independence.
100
This person kept taxing the colonies, and would not recognize them as an independent nation.
Who was King George III?
100
Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
Who was George Washington?
200
This battle resulted in the Patriots winning the war.
What is The Battle of Yorktown.
200
American forces, running low on supplies, captured British cannons from this fort.
What is Fort Ticonderoga.
200
Thomas Paine authored this pamphlet, which used plain English to convince people independence from Britain was a good thing.
What is Common Sense?
200
This person led American forces to victory at Saratoga, but later became one of the most famous traitors in history.
Who was Benedict Arnold?
200
This 33-year-old lawyer from Virginia reluctantly agreed to write the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
300
This battle was the turning point of the war, and led to foreign countries (like France and Spain) sending aid to the Patriots.
What is The Battle of Saratoga.
300
George Rogers Clark led a small force of 180 men to capture this fort in the Ohio River valley.
What is Fort Vincennes.
300
This person was the author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
300
This person was the general of the British forces when they surrendered at the Battle of Yorktown.
Who was Charles Cornwallis?
300
President of the Second Continental Congress and first to sign the Declaration of Independence.
Who was John Hancock?
400
The American forces surprised the Hessians the day after Christmas in this battle.
What is The Battle of Trenton?
400
This Polish engineer designed several fortifications for American forces.
Who is Thaddeus Kosciusko.
400
This document stated we were still loyal to England, and wanted to avoid war if Britain would give Colonists more freedom to govern themselves.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
400
When he couldn't find the words to swear at the soldiers on his own, this German officer made his interpreter yell at the soldiers for him.
Who was Fredrich Von Seuben?
400
This person was captain of the Bonhomme Richard.
Who was John Paul Jones?
500
The ships Bonhomme Richard and Serapis battled here.
What is the coast of England?
500
"Come out of there, you old rat!" were the words used to capture this fort, without even firing a shot.
What is Fort Ticonderoga.
500
Great Britain recognized the United States of America as an independent nation by signing this document.
What is The Treaty of Paris?
500
This governor of Spanish Louisiana led Spanish forces in capturing key British forts along the Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico.
Who was Bernardo de Galvez?
500
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country," were words spoken by this person shortly before he was hung by the British for his work as a spy.