American Revolution Quiz

19/20 missed John Paul Jones, kicking myself now though!

I didn't even learn about him till now.

I thought he was great in Led Zeppelin.

Every time it asked for a name I would automatically type John-then remember the real name. This is an awesome quiz to remember everything forgotten since 6th grade.

Maybe accept "Boston Tea Party" as an answer? I typed it that way and it didn'T work, was like what???

18/20....:( I had typed Benedict Arnold at the last second,but it didn't count it..... Should have been 19/20....

It kept bouncing my "Benedict Arnold" answer too! I tried different spellings, and finally erased the first name for just Arnold--which it bounced until the end when I went back and tried just "Arnold" again. That time it accepted it. Something about the word "Benedict" makes the program spazz (sorry I am not techy).

I thought it was John Bonham... damn

John Bonham was the drummer--big powerful guy.. John Paul Jones was the bass guitarist and keyboard player with the blonde pageboy hairstyle.

British soldiers were also called lobster backs, that should be added as an acceptable answer.

Yeah, I tried "lobsterback" before "redcoat," too! I think it might be good to add it as a type-in, since the term also has to do with the color of the uniform.

Actually, most people erroneously assume it was from the American Revolution, but anyone who has actually studied it knows that the term “lobsterback” only came into being after the war. There are no records of it from the time period, only in contemporary sources. The term did exist, but long after the war. Similar insults from the American Revolution are “lobsters” and “bloodybacks,” which are historically documented, so it makes sense why the confusion came about.

you need to accept hessian

It's funny how old people say "I was taught to respect authority!" despite the fact that America was founded by rebels.

I don't think any of those old people were around during the revolution.

Some people might think so. I was telling my granddaughters a story about a Civil War skirmish that happened in our area and the younger one asked, "Did that happen when you were a girl, Grandma?" Any history which occurred before we were born all seems to pancake together into one era.

Funniest misconception about age I've come across in young people was probably when my 1st grade students in Virginia saw how tall I was (about 2 meters), and under the assumption that growing older = growing bigger, guessed my age at over 100.

Inverting that misconception, when I was about 4, I apparently asked my mother, who was 5'0", what she wanted to be when she grew up.

Funny conversations about "old" people aside, I don't think it's really accurate to say America was founded by rebels. My APUSH teacher always talked about how the American Revolution was relatively "conservative," in that the fight was about gaining independence as opposed to ideology. Plus, all of America's leaders during the Revolution were already rich, educated, and part of the elite. Compare that to the French Revolution, which was very idealistic, anti-authoritarian (although ironically, the government they ended up making was perhaps more authoritarian than the monarchy), and, of course, violent.

still is

Could you please accept lobsterbacks for redcoats?

There is some controversy as to when that term first became popular. The term Lobster was used in the English Civil War and for British marines, and also saw limited use in the Am. Revolution in the Boston area, but there is not much evidence that lobsterback was used until after the War of 1812, and even then it may have first appeared in literature. http://boston1775.blogspot.com/2007/11/british-soldiers-werent-called.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_coat_(British_Army_and_Royal_Marines)

You are far from the only Hamilton fan, if that's what you're implying.

Some men say that I'm intense, or I'm insane; You want a revolution, I want a revelation; so listen to my declaration: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; and when I meet Thomas Jefferson, I'mma compel him to include women in the sequel

Only got seven. Learned all of that trivia at some point, but between being terrible with remembering people's names and having no practical use for the information, most of it quickly atrophies.

I find as I get older that I suddenly remember many of the things I learned when young, but quickly forget the things I learned yesterday. Unfortunately many of the things I learned when young have now changed - countries, capitals, we lose a planet, we gain an ocean, etc. Anyway, I was happy with a score of 17.

14. Should've gotten 2 more. All thanks to reading Outlander, without that I'd known maybe 7 at most.

A few mistakes that should probably be cleaned up:

Ben Franklin was not the only American sent to Paris to get a deal, as key Founding Father John Adams was sent as well.

While Thomas Jefferson authored the first draft of the Declaration of Independence, it was edited by the committee he worked on to write it (which included both Franklin and Adams), before being edited again and accepted by the full body of the Continental Congress.

By "male slaves were only considered a percentage of a whole man," are you referring to the Three Fifths Compromise? If so, A) that's the Constitution, not the Declaration of Independence, and B) that's not what it means. It was referring solely to counting population for the purposes of determining the number of representatives (and by extension electoral votes) each state got, and had nothing at all to do with how much of a person they were. It was the slave states that wanted to fully count the slaves (so that they would get more power in government) and the free states that didn't want to count them at all.

I typed Adams first, but when that wasn't accepted I thought about it for a second and arrived at the obvious answer.

20/20. Super easy, probably because I am an American and a history nerd (to an extent).

i wrote Boston Tea Party and i did not work.Can you except it??

Nice Quiz, but is the Boston Massacre really an "engagement"? It was just soldiers shooting into a crowd. Granted, there was basically a riot going on, but still...

Yes! Got them all with 2:15 remaining at 7:39:19 PM on March 12, 2019. I recently visited Valley Forge, and I have lived in the United States my whole life, so I took this quiz with pride.

Just a tiny nitpick, but Cornwallis wasn't the one to deliver the official surrender at Yorktown, it was actually his Lt. General Charles O'Hara. Cornwallis himself wasn't even present at the surrender ceremony.

8/20, don't know much about the American War of Independence.

Paul Revere got the glory ........ William Dawes really did it.here it is

Hey man, you guys could have also ended up 1/8 French with a free public healthcare system.

On the authorship of the Declaration: Jefferson drew heavily (make that HEAVILY) on the Virginia declaration of rights, whose principal author was George Mason.

Bunch of traitors

likely the latter

Yep, likely the latter. Canadian history you don't learn about it for the most part simply because it didn't involve Canada very much.

Although sometimes, I wish we did learn about it. Canada's history isn't the most exciting thing in the world.

I almost typed "Cumberbatch."

You should except John Adams for the one about France. He went to France too.

franklin went first though

Really surprised so many people missed Saratoga!

Please accept "lobster backs" as a replacement for "redcoats"

The fact is that the Boston Massacre was also referred to as the "Incident on King Street" by some. Please accept that as an answer.

easy 20/20. very fun quiz

Hello to everyone asking that “lobsterbacks” be an accepted answer! Of course, it is up to the QM, but I wanted to point out the historical fact that the term “lobsterback” is not historically accurate, despite being in a lot of American War of Independence media. The term was indeed used after the war, mostly in the following century. There is no evidence of the soldiers ever being referred to as “lobsterbacks” during the time. Insults used were “lobsters” and “bloodybacks”, hence the confusion.

TL;DR: “Lobsterback” isn’t historically accurate. The media is a historical vandal.