| A | B |
|---|
| Who wrote “Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer” protesting against the British, served as a delegate to the Continental Congress, later served in the Continental Army, and then helped form a new nation after the war? | John Dickinson |
| Who was a famous woman playwright and author? | Mercy Otis Warren |
| What was the name of the first set of laws written to govern the new country right after the war? | Articles of Confederation |
| Which man was the primary author (or “Father”) of the Constitution? He also wrote a series of letters to promote the Constitution. | James Madison |
| What was the name of the law that said a territory reaching a population of sixty thousand would become a state? It also set aside lands for public schools and mentioned slavery and relations with Native Americans. | Northwest Ordinance |
| Who was the only woman to be mother of one president and wife of another? This woman wrote letters to her husband telling him to "Remember the ladies." | Abigail Adams |
| What was the name of the group that met in Philadelphia in the Spring and Summer of 1787 in order to fix the problems of our country? | Constitutional Convention |
| A Massacheusetts farmer and ex-soldier protests against the high taxes after the war | Shays' Rebellion |
| The British refuse to leave the Great Lakes region and the Spanish create forts and cut off trade on the Mississippi River by shutting down the port of New Orleans | International problems after the war |
| The treaty that officially ends the war in 1783 | Treaty of Paris |
| The final major battle of the war | Yorktown |
| The chief negotiator in Paris after the war | Franklin |
| The general that surrenders to Washington at the last major battle of the war | General Cornwallis |
| A famous author who wrote Common Sense and "These are the Times That Try Men's Souls" | Thomas Paine |
| The song that played when the British surrendered | "The World Turned Upside Down" |
| Who was the King and Queen of France during and right after the American Revolution? | King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette |
| The man who was leader of the Reign of Terror in France in the 1790's | Robespierre |
