Question 1

Created Albany Plan of Union during French and Indian War; got France to aid us in Revolution

Accepted Answer

Benjamin Franklin

Question 2

British leader during the Revolution—tyrant

Accepted Answer

King George III

Question 3

Leader of the Sons of Liberty

Accepted Answer

Samuel Adams

Question 4

"Give me liberty or give me death"

Accepted Answer

Patrick Henry

Question 5

A patriot who helped warn colonists about British movements

Accepted Answer

Paul Revere

Question 6

Wrote Common Sense

Accepted Answer

Thomas Paine

Question 7

Primary writer of the Declaration of Independence

Accepted Answer

Thomas Jefferson

Question 8

Defended British soldiers who participated in the Boston Massacre

Accepted Answer

John Adams

Question 9

General of the Continental Army

Accepted Answer

George Washington

Question 10

Wife of John Adams; monitored politics

Accepted Answer

Abigail Adams

Question 11

African American Patriot who wrote poems about the Revolution

Accepted Answer

Phillis Wheatley

Question 12

Spanish governor of Louisiana who aided American army

Accepted Answer

Bernardo de Galvez

Question 13

Frenchman who joined Washington's army

Accepted Answer

Marquis de Lafayette

Question 14

German who trained Washington's troops in

Accepted Answer

Baron von Steuben

Question 15

Patriot naval hero

Accepted Answer

John Paul Jones

Question 16

First person to die in the Boston Massacre

Accepted Answer

Crispus Attucks

Question 17

Polish Jew who was a member of the New York Sons of Liberty

Accepted Answer

Haym Solomon

Question 18

African American patriot who was a messenger for the NH Committee of Safety

Accepted Answer

Wentworth Cheswell

Question 19

Traitor who aided the British after fighting on the Patriot side

Accepted Answer

Benedict Arnold

Question 20

Patriot who wrote plays that supported the

Accepted Answer

Mercy Otis Warren

Question 21

Enlightenment—his idea of unalienable rights were used in the Declaration of Independence

Accepted Answer

John Locke

Question 22

Slave who spied for the Americans

Accepted Answer

James Armistead

Question 23

British general who surrendered at Yorktown to end the war

Accepted Answer

Lord Cornwallis

Question 24

14 year old African American volunteer on a privateer

Accepted Answer

James Forten

Question 25

Won region between the Great Lakes and Ohio River Valley

Accepted Answer

George Rogers Clark

Question 26

German soldiers hired by the British

Accepted Answer

Hessians

Question 27

Group who protested the British laws and taxes; practiced civil disobedience

Accepted Answer

Sons of Liberty

Question 28

The lawmaking body of England (like our Congress)

Accepted Answer

Parliament

Question 29

Those who remained loyal to the King and England

Accepted Answer

Loyalists

Question 30

Those who wanted independence from England

Accepted Answer

Patriots

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