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Who became famous for spreading news of the British troop movements?
Paul Revere
100
What did the colonists call the hated Coercive Acts?
Intolerable
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Where were the first shots of the American Revolution fired?
Lexington & Concord
100
Who was the commander of the Continental Army?
George Washington
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What did King Louis XVI of France do after hearing of the American victory at Saratoga?
Recognized US independence
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What are people who sided with the rebels called?
Patriots
200
What is the name given to citizen-soldiers who were trained to be ready on a moment's notice?
Minutemen
200
What battle was the turning point of the war?
The Battle of Saratoga
200
I was a Frenchmen volunteered to train the Continental Army?
Marquis de Lafayette
200
What document is based on the idea that people have ceratin unalienable rights?
The Declaration of Independence
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Who was the author of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
300
This type of fighting used hit and run tactics
What is gueriila warfare?
300
What event happened as a result of the Battle of Saratoga?
Burgoyne surrendered
300
What is the name given to professional soldiers from Germany hired to fight for Great Britain?
Hessians
300
What group met in 1774 to uphold colonial rights in opposition to the Intolerable Acts?
The First Continental Congress
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Who was the author of Common Sense?
Thomas Paine
400
What is the name of the treaty that ended the American Revolution?
The Treaty of Paris (1783)
400
What is the name of the battle that took the Hessians by surprise?
Trenton
400
What American naval officer won the sea battle against the British warship Serapis?
John Paul Jones
400
What group met to begin to act as a government for the colonies by forming an army?
The Second Continental Congress
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I played a key role in the capture of Ft. Ticonderoga, later I helped lead the Patriots' invasion of Canada?
Benedict Arnold
500
What idea developed about how people should be governed after the war?
That the people should rule and not a king.
500
What is the name given to those the supported Great Britain during the war?
Loyalists
500
What is the name of the governor elect of New York?
Andrew Cuomo
500
This famous family had a father that was a Patriot and a son that was a Loyalist
The Franklin's