Special Sub-Topic: United States History Authored by: Bnd4Hvn01 Sub-topic of: American Revolution

Who said this: "If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men… [no] controls on government would be necessary."

James Madison. James Madison was the cheif author of the constitution.

How many colonists were killed during the war?

4,435. 120,012 is the number of soldiers were killed during the Civil war. 2,997 is how many people were killed on September 11, 2001. The last figure of 4,926 was made up.

Where and when was the infamous "shot heard around the world"?

19 April 1775, Lexington, MA. 19 April 1775, Concord, MA-American militia defeated British regulars. 10 May 1775, Lexington, MA- nothing happened in Lexington, MA but in Fort Ticonderoga, NY Americans captured the fort and its artillery. 17 June 1775, Bunker Hill, MA- British drove Americans from Bunker Hill.

There were two Boston Tea Parties?

t. Everyone knows how 50 or 60 "Sons of Liberty," disguised as Mohawks, protested the 3 cents per pound British tax on tea by dumping chests of the popular drink into Boston Harbor on December 16, 1773. Fewer know that the improper Bostonians repeated the performance on March 7, 1774. The two tea parties cost the British around $3 million in modern money.

"I am not a Virginian, but an American"

Patrick Henry. This was said by Patrick Henry in his speech First Continental Congress, October 14, 1774.

Why was John Hancock the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence?

He was the president of the Congress. The signature of John Hancock on the Declaration of Independence is the most flamboyant and easily recognizable of all. It is perhaps no surprise that the story of his part in the revolution is equally engaging. Few figures were more well known or more popular than John Hancock

Who said: "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."

Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin was also the oldest person to sign the U.S. Constitution at 81 years of age. He had to have help signing and cried while doing so.

Who said "Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."

George Washington. Washington was elected unanimously by the Electoral College in 1789, and he remains the only person ever to be elected president unanimously (a feat which he duplicated in the 1792 election).

Which General, considered by many historians to be the best in the Continental Army, was passed over for promotion after the Americans won a brilliant victory at Saratoga in 1777?

Benedict Arnold. "Without Benedict Arnold in the first three years of the war," says the historian George Neumann, "we would probably have lost the Revolution." In 1775, the future traitor came within a whisker of conquering Canada. In 1776, he built a fleet and fought a bigger British fleet to a standstill on Lake Champlain. At Saratoga in 1777, his brilliant battlefield leadership forced the British army to surrender. The victory persuaded the French to join the war on the American side. Ironically, Arnold switched sides in 1780 partly because he disapproved of the French alliance.

When did General Cornwallis give the order of surrender ending the Revolutionary War?

October 19, 1781. On October 19, 1781, British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, giving up almost 8,000 men and any chance of winning the Revolutionary War. Cornwallis had marched his army into the Virginia port town earlier that summer expecting to meet British ships sent from New York. The ships never arrived they were held up by the French.