American History Quiz 5

He led his men in Boonesborough, Kentucky against an attack of 400 British Loyalists and Shawnee Indians.

Daniel Boone

General Nathaniel Greene was a Rhode Island Quaker who abandoned his pacifism to become one of Washington’s top leaders.

True

British generals were lazy, incompetent, unmotivated, quarreled with one another, and spent most of their time in cities in luxury. 

True

The Battle of Saratoga was won in part because of this future traitor’s valor:

Benedict Arnold

German mercenary soldiers who fought mostly for the British were called .

Hessians

Two famous South Carolina backwoodsmen leaders who used guerilla-style tactics to win major victories were Francis Marion and Thomas Sumter.

True

The 400 militiamen who covered Washington’s retreat were from this "Old Line" state:

Maryland

He composed “The American Crisis” which began with the famous line: “These are the times that try men’s souls.”

Thomas Paine

Cornwallis surrenders after Washington and the ___________________ surround him in Yorktown, Virginia.

French navy

The American forces were officially known as the ____________________________________.

Continental Army

The two foreigners who arrived that winter and would turn out to be an immense help to Washington and the Patriots were:

von Steuben and Lafayette

In December of 1777, Washington bedded his troops down for the winter in nearby:

Valley Forge, PA

This Founding Father, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and member of the Constitutional Convention had his own illegitimate son, William, side with the British loyalists.

Ben Franklin

Washington stuns the country and the world when, after the war, he rides to Annapolis, MD and refuses to surrender his sword to Congress.

False

General Benjamin Lincoln surrendered 5,500 Patriots at which southern port city- largest single loss by Continental Army?

Charleston

After nearly being trapped in NY at the battles of Long Island and White Plains, Washington narrowly escaped total defeat by ferrying across the East River to ___________________________.

Manhattan

Lord Cornwallis retreated from the Carolinas to the Virginia port city of Yorktown after successive losses.

True

The British had three different major strategy plans that all failed. These were all of the following except which one?

Rely on hit-and-run guerilla-style strategies

On Christmas night 1776, Washington crosses the Delaware River in a successful surprise attack of the Hessians.

True

After the British won in New York and began moving southward, the Continental Congress fled to: 

Baltimore