On the night of April 18, 1775, riders galloped to Lexington to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were on the march.
Missing Word
Hancock
John Hancock, a wealthy merchant and Patriot leader, was staying at Lexington with Samuel Adams. Warned by the riders, including William Dawes, both men escaped before the troops arrived.
Category: Fighting Begins
Question 2
Silversmith Paul Revere was among the riders who warned Massachusetts militias that British troops were marching toward Concord.
Missing Word
Revere
Paul Revere and other riders spread the alarm on the night of April 18, 1775. Because of their warning, militia were ready to meet the British the next morning.
Category: Fighting Begins
Question 3
After evacuating Boston in March 1776, the British army sailed north to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Missing Word
Halifax
Halifax was a British naval base where the army regrouped. From there it launched its campaign against New York City later in 1776.
Category: Fighting Begins
Question 4
The pamphlet Common Sense was written by Thomas Paine, an English immigrant who had arrived in the colonies only in 1774.
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Paine
Thomas Paine published Common Sense anonymously in January 1776. It made a forceful case for independence and a republic and sold widely across the colonies.
Category: Road to Independence
Question 5
Colonists who took up the cause of independence called themselves Patriots, and they were also known as Whigs.
Missing Word
Patriots
Patriots came from every walk of life, from merchants and lawyers to farmers, shoemakers, and sailors. Their opponents, the Loyalists, remained faithful to the Crown.
Category: Revolutionary Society
Question 6
General William Howe commanded the British army that drove Washington's troops out of New York City in 1776.
Missing Word
Howe
William Howe, supported by a fleet under his brother Richard, defeated the Continental Army on Long Island. New York City then stayed in British hands until the war ended.
Category: War in the North
Question 7
After crossing the Delaware River on Christmas night 1776, Washington's troops surprised a garrison of German soldiers at Trenton, New Jersey.
Missing Word
Trenton
The victory at Trenton, followed soon after by another win at Princeton, came after months of defeat. It lifted Patriot morale and kept the army together through the winter.
Category: War in the North
Question 8
British forces captured the city of Philadelphia in 1777, forcing the Continental Congress to flee.
Missing Word
Philadelphia
Philadelphia was the meeting place of Congress. Its fall did not end the rebellion, and the British abandoned the city in 1778 to concentrate on defending New York.
Category: War in the North
Question 9
British general John Burgoyne surrendered his army at Saratoga in October 1777 after marching south from Canada.
Missing Word
Burgoyne
John Burgoyne's army was surrounded in upstate New York when expected support never arrived. His surrender was the event that brought France into the war on the American side.
Category: Saratoga and Alliance
Question 10
In May 1780 the British commander in chief, General Sir Henry Clinton, captured Charleston, South Carolina, and forced the surrender of the American army defending it.
Missing Word
Clinton
Sir Henry Clinton became commander in chief of British forces in North America in 1778. His capture of Charleston after a siege of several weeks in the spring of 1780 was a severe American defeat. Clinton then returned to New York and left Charles Cornwallis to carry on the southern campaign.
Category: War in the South
Question 11
British forces captured Savannah, Georgia, in December 1778, opening their campaign in the southern colonies.
Missing Word
Savannah
Savannah was the first major target of the southern campaign. Its fall gave Britain a base in Georgia, and thousands of enslaved people fled to British lines there.
Category: War in the South
Question 12
At Camden, South Carolina, in 1780, British forces under Charles Cornwallis routed the American army of Horatio Gates.
Missing Word
Cornwallis
Charles Cornwallis led British operations in the Carolinas and later moved his army into Virginia. The defeat at Camden led Congress to give the southern command to Nathanael Greene.
Category: War in the South
Question 13
American general Daniel Morgan defeated a British force at Cowpens, South Carolina, in January 1781.
Missing Word
Morgan
Daniel Morgan commanded part of Greene's divided army. His victory at Cowpens destroyed a large part of a British detachment and dealt a serious blow to Cornwallis.
Category: War in the South
Question 14
The Comte de Rochambeau commanded the French army that marched with Washington's troops to Yorktown in 1781.
Missing Word
Rochambeau
Rochambeau's French regulars joined the Continental Army for the siege of Yorktown. Together with the French fleet, they made the decisive victory possible.
Category: War in the South
Question 15
Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay negotiated the Treaty of Paris, which recognized American independence.
Missing Word
Jay
John Jay of New York joined Franklin and Adams as an American peace commissioner. The treaty they negotiated was signed in 1783.
Category: Peace Terms