These were the first battles of the Revolutionary War; Yes there are two.
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
100
He authored the Declaration of Independence?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
This state had the most democratic constitution.
What is Pennsylvania?
100
This man led the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
100
George Washington led his troops across this icy river and defeated a garrison of Hessian mercenaries at Trenton, New Jersey
What is the Delaware?
200
This battle happened outside Boston and was named wrong.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
200
He was a ne'er-do-well Englishman who wrote the pamphlet Common Sense.
Who is Thomas Paine?
200
This document set up the loose confederation of states that comprised the first national government of the United States.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
200
This man was the first commander in chief of the British army in America.
Who is Thomas Gage?
200
Washington had to quarter his soldiers here from December 1777 until June 1778.
What is Valley Forge?
300
Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold captured this British garrison at the end of Lake Champlain early in the war.
What is Fort Ticonderoga?
300
He is the radical leader who signed his name so boldly on the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Hancock?
300
One of the two men at the Annapolis Convention who called on states and Congress to approve a full-scale constitutional convention for Philadelphia in May 1787.
Who is James Madison or Alexander Hamilton?
300
He would have been considered the "top dog" at the Peace of Paris negotiations.
Who is Ben Franklin?
300
Women had the right to vote in this state from 1776 until 1807 when the state legislature changed the constitution.
What is New Jersey?
400
General Horatio Gates was the hero of this battle
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
400
Lord North ordered this man arrested at Concord; no he never brewed.
Who is Samuel Adams?
400
This plan, drafted by James Madison, proposed that the states be represented in legislature by population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
400
He was a Philadelphia merchant appointed as superintendent of finance for the Confederation government.
Who is Robert Morris?
400
Declaration of the Second Continental Congress that Americans were ready to fight for freedom and liberty.
What is the Declaration of the Cause and Necessity of Taking Up Arms?
500
This battle is the reason the British were able to take Philadelphia.
What is the Battle of Brandywine Creek?
500
He believed the united colonies "are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states."
Who is Richard Henry Lee?
500
This plan proposed at the 1787 Constitutional Convention created a national bicameral legislature in which all states would be equally represented in the Senate and proportionally represented in the House.
What is the Great Compromise?
500
He was a silversmith and the most famous of the patriot riders.
Who is Paul Revere?
500
An armed movement of debt-ridden farmers in western Massachusetts in the winter of 1786-1787.