A: Colonial Period and Independence Flashcards
- What is one reason colonists came to America?
▪ freedom
▪ political liberty
▪ religious freedom
▪ economic opportunity
▪ practice their religion
▪ escape persecution
- Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?
▪ American Indians
▪ Native Americans
- What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?
▪ Africans
▪ people from Africa
- 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
- Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
▪ (Thomas) Jefferson
- When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
▪ July 4, 1776
- 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
- What happened at the Constitutional Convention?
▪ The Constitution was written.
▪ The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution.
- When was the Constitution written?
▪ 1787
- The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers.
▪ (James) Madison
▪ (Alexander) Hamilton
▪ (John) Jay
▪ Publius
- 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
- Who is the “Father of Our Country”?
▪ (George) Washington
- Who was the first President?*
▪ (George) Washington
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