American History - Colonial Period and Independence

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Question 58

What is one reason colonists came to America?

freedom. political liberty. religious freedom. economic opportunity. practice their religion. escape persecution.

Question 59

Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?

American Indians. Native Americans.

Question 60

What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?

Africans. people from Africa.

Question 61

Why did the colonists fight the British?

because of high taxes (taxation without representation). because the British army stayed in their houses (boarding, quartering). because they didn’t have self-government.

Question 62

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Thomas Jefferson

Question 63

When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?

July 4, 1776

Question 64

There were 13 original states. Name three.

New Hampshire. Massachusetts. Rhode Island. Connecticut. New York. New Jersey. Pennsylvania. Delaware. Maryland. Virginia. North Carolina. South Carolina. Georgia.

Question 65

What happened at the Constitutional Convention?

The Constitution was written. The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution.

Question 66

When was the Constitution written?

1787

Question 67

The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers.

(James) Madison. (Alexander) Hamilton. (John) Jay. Publius.

Question 68

What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for?

U.S. diplomat. oldest member of the Constitutional Convention. first Postmaster General of the United States. writer of “Poor Richard’s Almanac”. started the first free libraries.

Question 69

Who is the “Father of Our Country”?

(George) Washington

Question 70

Who was the first President?*

(George) Washington