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American Revolution Questions A

American Revolution Quiz

1- France provided ___% of the American rebels' gunpowder.

2- True or False. Molly Pitcher took her husband's soldier's duties over, when he died, and started fighting with guns and cannons in the American Revolution.

3- True or False. Most Native American tribes allied with the Americans.

4- Why didn't Paul Revere ride his horse to Concord?

5- True or False. Most African slaves allied with the Americans.

6- The Americans won the war with mostly guerilla tactics, or pitched battles?

7- ____% of the European colonists sided with the British?

8- What was the first battle of the American Revolution? The last battle?

9- Were most American soldiers volunteers, or conscripted (drafted)?

10- What day was the Declaration of Independence passed by the Continental Congress?

11- Where did the Battle of Bunker's Hill take place?

12- Paul Revere made it to Lexington to warn Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and the rest of the colonists about the incoming British army, but he never made it to Concord, to warn the colonists there. Who did? Which rider made it to Concord?

13- What was the revenue from the Coercive (Intolerable) Acts and the Townsend Acts supposed to finance?

14- How many colonists were killed in the 1770 Boston Massacre?

15- How many of the 20 British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre were acquited of murder?

16- What did George Washington do to the Iroquois Nation (the world's first democracy)?

17- What did George Washington do to those who deserted his army?

18- How many other Paul Revere type of riders were warning the colonists of the British invasion in Massachusetts Middlesex County?

19- What did Paul Revere shout as he was riding towards Lexington?

20- In 1776, there were 2.5 million European-American colonists. How many British troops were used to occupy them all?

21- Why did France ally with the rebels?

22- The British spent 17,000 pounds to collect the Townsend Acts. How much taxes were they able to collect?

23- Who wasn't allowed to vote for George Washington?

24- Did George Washington have wooden teeth?

25- Which one of the Founders owned slaves? Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, or Benjamin Franklin?

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