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Quiz about United States History
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United States History Trivia Quiz


This quiz is about the American Revolution.

A multiple-choice quiz by Bnd4Hvn01. Estimated time: 6 mins.
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Author
Bnd4Hvn01
Time
6 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
252,674
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Difficult
Avg Score
4 / 10
Plays
11704
Awards
Top 20% Quiz
Last 3 plays: Guest 54 (8/10), Guest 208 (4/10), Guest 47 (4/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. 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." Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. How many colonists were killed during the Revolutionary War? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Where and when was the infamous "shot heard around the world"? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. There were two Boston Tea Parties?


Question 5 of 10
5. "I am not a Virginian, but an American." Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Why was John Hancock the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Who said: "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Who said "Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. 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? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. When did General Cornwallis give the order of surrender ending the Revolutionary War? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. 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."

Answer: James Madison

James Madison was the chief author of the constitution.
2. How many colonists were killed during the Revolutionary War?

Answer: 4,435

120,012 is the number of soldiers were killed during the American Civil War ( a further 64,582 dies from their wounds and 186,216 died from a variety of diseases)).
2,997 is how many people were killed on September 11, 2001.
3. Where and when was the infamous "shot heard around the world"?

Answer: 19 April 1775, Lexington, MA

The "shot heard around the world" was fired at Lexington Green by an unknown person.

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.
4. There were two Boston Tea Parties?

Answer: True

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.
5. "I am not a Virginian, but an American."

Answer: Patrick Henry

This was said by Patrick Henry in his speech at the First Continental Congress, October 14, 1774.
6. Why was John Hancock the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence?

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

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

Answer: 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).
9. 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?

Answer: 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.
10. When did General Cornwallis give the order of surrender ending the Revolutionary War?

Answer: 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.
Source: Author Bnd4Hvn01

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