What was the name of the war fought between the American colonies and Great Britain from 1775 to 1783?

• A. The Civil War
• B. The American Revolutionary War
• C. The War of 1812
• D. The French and Indian War

Answer: (B)

This is asking you to name the conflict where the American colonies fought for independence from Great Britain. The correct name for that struggle, fought from 1775 to 1783, is the American Revolutionary War. It began with colonial resistance and fights at Lexington and Concord, grew after the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1783, which recognized the United States as an independent nation.

The other options don’t fit this time period: the Civil War happened much later and was an internal U.S. conflict; the War of 1812 occurred after the Revolution, again against Britain but in a different era; the French and Indian War happened earlier, in the mid-1700s, as part of imperial conflicts before the colonies sought independence.