1.  Who planned one of the first Fourth of July celebrations? 

Answer:              B: Abigail Adams

 2.  How much money, by today’s standards, did Esther de Berdt Reed and the Ladies of Philadelphia raise for the troops by walking door to door requesting money from their neighbors?

Answer:            D:  $4,000,000

3.  What was the name Deborah Sampson used to enlist in the miltia?

Answer:            C.  Robert Shurtliff

4.  Many women received pensions for their military services in the Revolutionary War.

Answer:            True. 

5.  Who was the first woman to write a history of the Revolutionary War?

Answer:            A:  Mercy Otis Warren.  The book, which Warren started writing as early as 1775, was entitled The Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution.  It was over 1300 pages long and was published in 1805. 

6.  Only men performed public protests against British imported goods, such as in the Boston Tea Party.   

Answer:            False.  The Edenton Tea Party was organized by women.  51 women signed a pledge to stop using Tea and other British imported goods. 

7.  On July 15, 1779, how many women were captured with the British garrison at Stony Point Battle Field, New York?

Answer:            D:  52

8.  What effect did the revolution have on women?

Answer:            D:  All of the above. 

9.  The Daughters of the Revolution found a document which lists 95 men and 19 women belonging Captain James Green’s company.  Many of the women appeared to be single and had no relation to any of the other soldiers. 
       
Answer:              True

10.  What were the women who followed the soldiers and performed duties such as cooking, laundry, and nursing wounded soldiers called?

Answer:            B:  Camp Followers

 

 

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Quiz produced by NWHM 2006 Summer Intern Albrey Diece

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