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The American Revolution

From tea in Boston Harbor to surrender at Yorktown, march through the war that created the United States and show what you know.

🏺 History medium 20 questions ~7 min

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What this quiz asks

Which slogan summed up colonial anger at being taxed by a Parliament in which they had no members?
In December 1773, Boston protesters dumped this drink's leaves into the harbour. Which company owned the cargo?
Whom did the Continental Congress choose in 1775 to command the new Continental Army?
The first battles of the Revolutionary War were fought in April 1775 at Lexington and which other Massachusetts town?
Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?
Did Paul Revere ride alone to raise the alarm on the night of 18 April 1775?
What did Britain's Stamp Act of 1765 tax in the American colonies?
Which 1776 pamphlet by Thomas Paine argued that the colonies should break away from British rule?
Most delegates signed the Declaration of Independence on 4 July 1776.
On Christmas night 1776, Washington crossed the Delaware River to surprise Hessian troops at which town?
Select ALL of these that were among the original Thirteen Colonies.
Which 1777 American victory persuaded France to join the war as an ally?
Where did Washington's army spend the harsh winter of 1777 to 1778, drilled by the Prussian officer Baron von Steuben?
How old was the Marquis de Lafayette when Congress made him a major general in 1777?
Which British general surrendered his army to American and French forces at Yorktown in 1781?
Benedict Arnold, a hero of the American victory at Saratoga, later changed sides and became a British army officer.
Select ALL of these Americans who negotiated the 1783 Treaty of Paris with Britain.
Order these events from earliest to latest.
Before the Constitution, the newly independent states were bound together by which weaker founding document?
How many of the 13 states had to ratify the new US Constitution before it could take effect?