The American Revolution had many important events. Name one.

Why this is the answer

Six answers are accepted, and the parentheses in the official list tell you how much you have to say. "Bunker Hill," "Saratoga" and "Yorktown" are complete without the words "Battle of." Valley Forge counts with or without "Encampment." Washington Crossing the Delaware carries the Battle of Trenton in parentheses, and Yorktown carries the British surrender at Yorktown. With either of those, the safest move is to say the main name as it is printed. The sixth item, the Declaration of Independence, is an event most applicants already know from other questions. Two of the six, the Declaration and Yorktown, are explained in the USCIS study guide, which makes them the easiest to remember with their context. The war started in 1775, when colonists in Massachusetts began fighting British troops; soon all thirteen colonies were in the fight, with an army under General George Washington. The Declaration followed on July 4, 1776, and with it the thirteen colonies became the thirteen original states of the United States of America. Yorktown, in Virginia, is where the British army surrendered in 1781. There was no more fighting after that, although the war did not formally end until Great Britain signed a treaty in 1783 accepting American independence. The guide only lists the other four, Bunker Hill, the crossing of the Delaware, Saratoga and Valley Forge, without telling their stories. For the test you need the name, not the story, so treat them as labels and choose one that is easy for you to pronounce. If English place names make you nervous, the Declaration of Independence is a safe choice, and it also connects to two other questions in this section, who wrote it and when it was adopted. That way one piece of study answers three questions. The mistake to avoid is reaching for a famous battle from another war. Gettysburg, the Alamo and Pearl Harbor are well known, but none of them is on this list. Think of the Revolution as a road from Massachusetts in 1775 to Yorktown in 1781, then pick any one of the six names on the list.