Grade 9 · World history
This quiz helps revise “The American Revolution” in World history for grade 9. It has 25 questions in five categories: Road to Revolution, On the Battlefield, People of Revolution, Words and Documents, Alliance and Endgame. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
Which 1765 law taxed legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards in the colonies?
What was the December 16, 1773 protest in which 342 chests of tea were destroyed in Boston Harbor?
What name did colonists…
In the gameWhich intercolonial meeting gathered…
In the gameWhat network of local…
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Which clashes on April 19, 1775 became the war's first armed confrontation?
Which June 17, 1775 battle, fought mostly on Breed's Hill, ended in a British victory?
Which victory did Washington…
In the gameWhich American victory in…
In the gameWhich January 17, 1781…
In the gameWhom did the Second Continental Congress appoint commander in chief of the Continental Army in 1775?
The portrait shows who in June 1776 wrote the main draft of the document explaining the colonies' break with Britain?
Who became a leading…
In the gameWhich young French aristocrat…
In the gameWhich Prussian officer trained…
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Which document did the Continental Congress adopt on July 4, 1776?
Which Thomas Paine pamphlet, published in January 1776, urged the colonies to break political ties with Britain?
What was the 1775…
In the gameWhich document, adopted in…
In the gameWhat measure did Congress…
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At which town did Charles Cornwallis's British army surrender on October 19, 1781?
Which 1783 agreement ended the war and made Britain recognize the United States as a sovereign nation?
What 1778 agreement committed…
In the gameWhich 1781 naval clash…
In the gameWhich river formed a…
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